CHICAGO—A 29-year-old Chicago police officer was killed and a second officer was wounded in an exchange of gunfire during a traffic stop, officials said. The death of the female officer Saturday night was the first fatal shooting of a Chicago officer in the line of duty since 2018. The two officers were fired upon after they pulled over a vehicle carrying two men and a woman just after 9 p.m. in the South Side neighborhood of West Englewood, according to police. Chicago police first deputy superintendent Eric Carter told a news conference early Sunday that the officers returned fire and that one of the people in the vehicle also was wounded. That person’s condition was not released. The female officer died later at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where the other officer was “fighting for his very life,” Carter said. Two of the people who were in the vehicle …
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