CHICAGO (WGN) — A Chicago police officer is dead and another is injured after a shooting on the city's South Side Thursday night, according to the Chicago Police Department.

CPD Supt. Larry Snelling confirmed a 36-year-old female police officer was shot and killed near East 82nd Street and South Drexel Avenue. She was taken to a local hospital in critical condition, where she was later pronounced dead.

At a press conference early Friday morning, Snelling said a female officer was a part of an investigatory stop around 9:50 p.m. Thursday in the Chatham neighborhood where a person fled on foot. CPD officers pursued the person into an apartment.

According to Snelling, when CPD officers entered the apartment, they were confronted by a second individual who was armed with a rifle and pointed

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