An off-duty Chicago police officer was found dead Wednesday inside a home in the West Ridge neighborhood on the Northwest Side, police said.
Officers responding to a well-being check found the 54-year-old man unresponsive about 2:45 p.m. in a home in the 7400 block of North California Avenue, Chicago police said.
He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not ruled on the cause and manner of the officer’s death.
As is customary when a police officer dies, a procession escorted the officer’s body to the medical examiner’s office on the Near West Side. The ambulance left his home about 8:30 p.m. followed by half a dozen CPD squad cars with their blue emergency lights flashing.
Police were conducting a death investigation.
No other information was released.
