CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Two men are charged in connection with Saturday morning's shooting death of an off-duty Chicago police officer, while the search continues for a third person of interest.
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said Menelik Jackson shot and killed off-duty officer John Rivera and seriously wounded another man as they sat in a parked car on Clark near Huron.
Johnson said Jovan Battle was with Jackson and is charged as a co-conspirator. He said Jackson and Battle were looking for people who attacked them at a nearby fast food restaurant and shot the first Hispanic they saw.
Johnson said Jackson once applied to be a Chicago police officer, but was arrested in 2017 after he was accused of breaking into his ex-girlfriend's Woodlawn apartment and putting a gun to her head.
"This guy actually had the nerve to think he could become a Chicago police officer. It's disgusting," he said.
Officer Rivera's funeral is scheduled for Friday morning.




