Chicago Officer Critically Hurt When Shots Fired Into Car

Chicago Police set up near the corner of 64th St. and Loomis Blvd., an intersection near the location where an officer was shot, in Chicago, on June 1, 2022. Brian Rich/Chicago Sun-Times via AP

CHICAGO—A man with an arrest record for a gun charge that was later dropped is suspected of shooting and seriously wounding a Chicago police officer, according to a police alert sent Thursday.

The 28-year-old, who remains at large, was identified in the alert as the gunman who opened fire on a marked police car on Chicago’s South Side, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.