Articles by Illinois Answers Project

The lawsuit filed by Officer Krystal Rivera’s family says Officer Carlos Baker failed to call for an ambulance after he shot her in the back during a chase and then engaged in a “cover-up.”

The Chicago Police Department told state safety regulators that a barricaded suspect shot Officer Krystal Rivera when she’d actually been killed by her partner despite police investigators having viewed body-worn camera footage the night of the shooting.

Carlos Baker, the Chicago police officer who shot and killed his partner Krystal Rivera during a foot pursuit earlier this year, allegedly attacked a female officer late Sunday at a bar in Wicker Park, the Chicago Sun-Times and Illinois Answers Project have learned.

An attorney for the family of Chicago Police Officer Krystal Rivera, who was fatally shot by her partner, Carlos Baker, said Wednesday that Baker should have never been a police officer, given a serious complaint made against him during his probationary period, and the death of Rivera “should have never happened.”

A young Chicago cop had racked up more than a dozen misconduct complaints by the time authorities say he inadvertently shot and killed his partner, Krystal Rivera, when they confronted two armed men inside an apartment filled with guns and drugs.