CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A 29-year-old Chicago police officer was denied bail Saturday after allegedly shooting his girlfriend to death.
Pierre Tyler was charged with a felony count of first-degree murder Thursday after a woman was found fatally shot inside a home in Galewood on the Northwest Side.
Officers were called to the home in the 2100 block of North Nashville Avenue about 10:10 a.m. Thursday, for a well-being check and found Andris Wooford, 29, dead from a gunshot wound to the head, police said.
Tyler is alleged to have shot Wooford in the face as the two argued in her home.
A prosecutor said he had a child with another woman and has a child-support case pending and Wooford recently learned about that.
The prosecutor said surveillance video showed Tyler going to Wooford’s home on Wednesday evening and neighbors reported they heard the two arguing and then heard a muffled bang.
The next morning, Wooford’s father called 911 from outside her home. An autopsy Friday ruled her death a homicide, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
Tyler was taken into custody at the scene and was later charged, police said. He has been relieved of his police powers, and is expected in bond court Saturday.
(WBBM Newsradio and the Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this copy.)
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