Chicago Police Department officers shot 12 people, killing six, during the first five months of 2025, the same number of people officers shot and killed in all of 2024, according to an analysis of city data by WTTW News.
That toll includes six people shot by police officers in the month of May alone. Two were killed, records show.
On June 5, Officer Krystal Rivera became the seventh person to be shot and killed by a Chicago police officer in 2025. Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling said Rivera, 36, was “unintentionally” shot in the back by her partner as they chased a man who fled from them after they attempted to stop and search him because they suspected he had a weapon…