CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A Chicago police officer and two federal agents working undercover were shot Wednesday morning on the Far South Side near the Morgan Park neighborhood.
According to police, the Chicago police officer and two ATF agents were working undercover. The three were traveling in an unmarked car, getting onto the northbound ramp to I-57 at 119th Street near the 22nd District police station in the city's Morgan Park neighborhood, when they were shot by someone in another car around 5:55 a.m.
"We don't want to give away exactly what they were doing. They were working in an undercover capacity, so we are limited in what we can say about what they were doing and why they were doing it; but they were fired upon while driving all in the same car trying to enter onto the on ramp. It was not a marked vehicle. It was an unmarked, undercover vehicle," Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said Wednesday morning.
The Chicago police officer was struck in the back of his head, but “it appears to be a graze wound,” Brown said. One ATF agent had a hand wound, the other an arm wound. Brown said one of the ATF agents is female, the other two officers are male.
Police have no one in custody.
The car the officers were in was driven a few blocks from the scene to the 22nd District police station and was blocked off with red police tape.
Police were searching for a white Chevrolet Malibu believed was used in the shooting, police sad. The Illinois State Police troopers were called to assist with the investigation.
The officer and the agents were all taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where they were being treated for injuries that weren’t life-threatening, officials said.
They are among five law enforcement officials shot in Chicago over the past three days.
Chicago police Cmdr. Patrina Wines and a sergeant were wounded by bullets fired into a crowd of revelers in the 100 block of North Long Avenue in Austin at about 1:30 a.m. Monday. Wines was struck in the foot, and the sergeant was grazed in the leg.
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Brown said the 36 Chicago police officers have either been shot or shot at this year.
“We have more than 100,000 gang members in the city of Chicago,” Ald. Matt O’Shea (19th) said Wednesday. “They are emboldened and have nothing to fear from law enforcement. The police are under siege.”
(WBBM Newsradio and the Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this copy.)