CICERO, Ill. (WLS) — A Cicero spokesperson announced that a 19-year-old individual identified as a “known gang member” has been accused of shooting a police officer in a western suburb.
The shooting happened early Saturday morning in Cicero.
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According to Cicero police, two undercover officers from the special operation division approached a vehicle that was illegally double-parked at the intersection of 35th Street and 61st Court at approximately 12:45 a.m.
The spokesperson stated that as the officers advised the driver to relocate the vehicle and began to pull away, Giovanni A. Saldivar, aged 19, who was engaged in conversation with an individual inside the double-parked vehicle, discharged a firearm in the direction of the officers.
One officer, shot in the back, was transported to Loyola Hospital in serious but stable condition, police said. The second officer was unharmed.
A spokesperson said Saldivar fled into a nearby bar.
Backup officers responded to the scene and took Saldivar and a second person into custody.
Saldivar has been charged with two counts of Attempted Murder of a Police Officer, Aggravated Battery-Use of a Firearm, and Aggravated Discharge of a Firearm.
Saldivar is being held in custody ahead of his trial.
The injured officer, a 29-year-old man, has served with the Cicero Police Department for just under five years. He was released from the hospital on Sunday afternoon.
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