{"id":352205,"date":"2026-04-27T04:29:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/chicago-police-officer-killed-in-hospital-shooting-identified-second-officer-in-critical-condition"},"modified":"2026-04-27T04:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:29:51","slug":"chicago-police-officer-killed-in-hospital-shooting-identified-second-officer-in-critical-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/chicago-police-officer-killed-in-hospital-shooting-identified-second-officer-in-critical-condition","title":{"rendered":"Chicago police officer killed in hospital taking pictures recognized, second officer in important situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">CHICAGO &#8212; <\/span>A Chicago officer who was fatally shot by a man receiving treatment at a hospital while in police custody has been identified as 38-year-old John Bartholomew, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Bartholomew, a 10-year veteran of the force, was pronounced dead just before 1 p.m. Saturday <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hospital-shooting-chicago-police-9a41435244a3a5d119a37eb667cc576a\">after being shot<\/a> at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A second officer was wounded in the Saturday morning shooting and remained in critical condition Sunday, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">His name and the name of the suspect in the shooting have not yet been released by police. Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling told reporters Saturday that the wounded officer, 57 years old with 21 years of service, was \u201cfighting for his life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The officers had transported the suspect, who had been arrested for suspicion of robbery, to the hospital for observation. The suspect fled from the hospital after the shooting and was later taken into custody, where a weapon was recovered, the police department said. Police have not said how he was able to get a gun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A surveillance photo obtained by the Sun-Times appeared to show him running naked, with electrodes on his chest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The hospital said in a Facebook posting Saturday that an individual in custody of law enforcement was brought to the emergency department for treatment and was \u201cwanded upon arrival,\u201d following protocol. He was escorted by law enforcement at all times, the hospital said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It said that the man later fired shots at the law enforcement officers and exited the hospital building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Snelling said police investigating the shooting had recovered three weapons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The other is a 57-year-old officer with 21 years of service, Snelling said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/chicago-police-officer-killed-hospital-shooting-identified-officer-132400423\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212; A Chicago officer who was fatally shot by a man receiving treatment at a hospital while in police custody has been identified as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":343121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[548,28604,28776,28777,28775,28774,1606,13547,10783,28603],"class_list":["post-352205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-police","tag-chicago-police-department","tag-crime-in-chicago","tag-john-bartholomew","tag-larry-snelling","tag-officer","tag-second-officer","tag-superintendent","tag-swedish-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352207,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352205\/revisions\/352207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}