Funeral arrangements have been announced for fallen Chicago Police Officer Krystal Rivera, who was “unintentionally” shot by her partner earlier this month.
Visitation will be held from 2 to 8 p.m. June 24 at Montclair-Lucania Funeral Home, 6901 W. Belmont Ave., Chicago police said.
Her funeral service will be held at noon June 25 at Living Word Christian Center, 7600 Roosevelt Road in Forest Park.
Rivera was “unintentionally” shot and killed by her partner June 5 when they encountered an armed man during a foot pursuit in Chatham.
Rivera, who was assigned to the Gresham District tactical team, was shot about 9:50 p.m. while chasing a person who officers thought was armed into an apartment building in the 8200 block of South Drexel Avenue, police said.
Rivera and her partner chased the person into a one-bedroom apartment where they encountered a suspect, Adrian A. Rucker, 25, who was armed with an AR-style rifle, and another person.
Rucker, of Freeport, Illinois, pointed the weapon at the officers, which prosecutors say can be seen on the officers’ body camera footage and surveillance video from inside the apartment.
A different “armed suspect” then jumped over a couch and ran out of the apartment, prosecutors said. Rivera chased him down the hallway, and that’s when her partner unintentionally shot her in the back, authorities said.
Officers drove Rivera to University of Chicago Medical Center, but she died shortly after arriving.
Rivera was a four-year veteran of the department and a mother to a 10-year-old girl.
Last week, hundreds of family, friends and community members gathered at a prayer vigil outside the Gresham District police station, 7808 S. Halsted St., in honor of Rivera.
