Overview

• Illinois Department of Labor filings state Officer Krystal Rivera was shot by an armed suspect or during a barricade, though police now acknowledge her partner, Officer Carlos Baker, fired the fatal shot.
• Department investigators had reviewed body-worn camera footage the night of the June 5 shooting, yet CPD has not corrected the state reports more than two months later.
• State officials have not opened an investigation or sought clarification, and their file on the workplace death remains closed.
• The autopsy ruled Rivera’s death a homicide from a single bullet to the back, with language about knowledge of deadly risk that conflicts with COPA’s earlier description of the shooting as unintentional.
• Rivera’s family is pushing for release of body-camera video and a public probe, while Baker remains employed but has been stripped of police powers following an alleged bar assault.