CHICAGO (WLS) — A Chicago police officer was among two people shot and killed on the city’s South Side Monday night, CPD said.

The shooting happened in the East Chatham neighborhood near East 80th Street and South Ingleside Avenue around 8 p.m.

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Sucking. CPD Larry Snelling said officers stopped the vehicle with three people inside and approached. That’s when someone inside fired, striking the 26-year-old officer multiple times. Another person inside the vehicle was also fatally shot.

Snelling said at one point, an officer discharged his weapon at the scene. Detectives are still reviewing the firearms belonging to the officers involved in Monday night’s incident, he added.

The suspected shooter tried to flee the scene on foot but was later arrested, Snelling said. A third person, who was in the back seat of the car, was detained at the scene.

Fellow officers took the injured officer to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. He worked just under three years at CPD, Snelling said.

The police recovered two weapons from the scene.

One of the guns was in the possession of the person who suffered fatal gunshot wounds inside the vehicle. The other weapon is a semi-automatic weapon with an extended magazine.

Neighbors who did not want to go on camera told ABC7 they heard gunshots before seeing officers swarm the scene.

Several streets around the scene were blocked off as police continued to investigate Monday night.

A heavy police presence could also be seen outside the hospital at East 57th Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue.

The Civil Police Accountability Office is responding, and the Mobile Command Post has also arrived at the scene.

Snelling said CPD has not yet released the officer’s name to allow his family to grieve.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson also spoke at Monday night’s news conference, and he and Snelling asked Chicagoans to keep the officer’s family in their thoughts.

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