According to the Associated Press, on Thursday morning, Chicago Police Officer Ella French’s funeral was attended by hundreds of mourners, including dozens of Chicago police officers in blue uniforms. She was on duty this month. When he was shot.
The Frenchman’s coffin was carried into Santa Rita Church in Cassia for the funeral, where her family and friends, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, former Mayor Richard M. Daley, and members from Illinois held there Funeral Policemen The Chicago Fire Department and more people attended to commemorate her. On August 7, the 29-year-old French died when passengers in the car shot at them during a routine traffic stop. Another police officer was seriously injured by an expired license plate.
The 21-year-old suspected shooter Monty Morgan was charged with first-degree murder of a sheriff after being arrested. He was also charged with attempted murder. Prosecutors said the man driving the car, Morgan’s brother Eric, 22, was also arrested and faced charges of holding a gun and obstruction of justice.
French was the first Chicago police officer to be shot dead in 2021, and the fifth female police officer in the department to die in uniform since 1988.
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The leader of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, Cardinal Blase Cupich, was originally scheduled to preach at the French funeral mass.
Outside, a huge American flag fluttered from the ladder of the Chicago Fire Department truck.
The mourners entering the church passed a photo of a smiling Frenchman wearing gown gloves and a baton. The ceremony started about 30 minutes late to accommodate hundreds of people who were still waiting in line when they arrived at the scheduled start time of 10 am.
Whenever a police officer is killed while on duty, the green uniforms of the Illinois State Police, the white hats worn by members of the Chicago Fire Department, and the uniforms of the state and other departments will attend.
The Frenchman was the first member of the department to die in the line of duty in the past three years.
Although she was the first police officer to be shot in Chicago this year, she was only one of nearly 40 police officers who were shot — 11 of them were hit by bullets.
Another police officer, Carlos Yanez Jr., who was shot dead, is still hospitalized.Although his condition has been several days, his father told them Chicago Sun Times So far, the doctor has not removed the two bullets stuck in his brain.
“They can’t,” Carlos Yanez Sr., a retired Chicago police officer, told the paper.
Yanez Jr.’s sister Nicole Christina, a doctor, is coordinating her brother’s medical team, she told the media Sun Times He lost one eye and “there was no movement on the left or right leg of the body.”
The shooting suspect Morgan was shot in the abdomen by a third police officer.
His brother was also arrested. Both are detained in Cook County Jail and cannot be released on bail.
The third man accused of acting as a straw buyer to buy the guns used in the shooting faces federal gun charges.
Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune via The Associated Press
