A new bronze statue was unveiled Sunday honoring fallen Chicago police Officer Ella French — on what would have been her 34th birthday.
The fallen officer’s mother, Elizabeth French, was overcome with emotion as her daughter’s statue was unveiled at Wentworth Park, at 56th and Narragansett avenues in the Southwest Side’s Garfield Ridge neighborhood.
French was 29 when she was killed while conducting a traffic stop in Chicago Lawn in August 2021. Her partner, Officer Carlos Yanez Jr., was also seriously wounded in the shooting…