Overview
- Court filings say body-camera and apartment security videos captured Adrian Rucker pointing an AR-style pistol from behind a couch as officers entered the unit.
- Officer Krystal Rivera, 36, was unintentionally shot in the upper back outside her vest and died at a hospital less than an hour after being wounded.
- Rucker, 25, fled the scene but was arrested nearby and charged with armed violence, illegal firearm possession, drug offenses and identity-fraud counts.
- A search warrant of the Chatham apartment yielded three firearms, drum magazines, over 20 fake ID cards and suspected narcotics including heroin, crack cocaine and marijuana.
- The Chicago Police Department and Civilian Office of Police Accountability are continuing their investigations while Rucker remains detained awaiting his next court date.