The 36-year-old Chicago police officer fatally shot in the line of duty Thursday night after an "investigatory stop" led to a chaotic scene has been identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner as Krystal Rivera, of Irving Park.

During a news conference overnight, Chicago Police Department Supt. Larry Snelling said Rivera was a four-year veteran of the force, and the mother of a young daughter.

"She was a mom, and there's nothing like walking into a room and having to deliver this type of message to her mother and her very young daughter and the rest of her family," Snelling said during the press conference. "No matter how old your children are, they're still always your children, and for a mother to lose her daughter like that knowing that she was trying to do the right thing every

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