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A Chicago police officer was shot Sunday afternoon outside a police station in the city’s Gresham neighborhood, police said.

A police spokesman said investigators are also trying to determine whether a "personal conflict" could have precipitated the violence — an acknowledgement that shows the investigation remains in its early phases.

Police spokesman Tom Ahern on Monday said investigators are “looking to see if there’s some kind of a gang nexus” that led to the shooting early Sunday at the South Side Think Tank.

"Officer stopped at a traffic light, off duty, in his personal car," Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said. "Offenders pull up behind him and beside him and just start firing into the car." Chicago Police Supt. David Brown delivers an update after an off-duty officer was shot during an incident on the citys South Side in the Calumet Heights neighborhood. The officer was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center and rushed into surgery. He was said to be recovering from the proc...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago police are searching for at least two gunmen who ambushed an off-duty officer and shot him in the abdomen as he sat in his Jeep in the citys Calumet Heights neighborhood Monday. The officer was stopped at a traffic light in the 8900-block of South Stony Island Avenue while off-duty in his personal vehicle at about 12:21 p.m. when the suspects pulled up behind and alongside the vehicle and fired shots inside, wounding the officer in the lower torso, Chicago Police Superi...

At least 15 people were shot, two fatally, during a party at a Park Manor business early Sunday, officials said.

A Chicago police officer was shot Sunday afternoon outside a police station in the city’s Gresham neighborhood, police said.

The on-duty sergeant, a 26-year veteran of the police department, had suffered a graze wound to the chin.

A Chicago police officer was shot Sunday outside a police station on the city’s South...

A 45-year-old Chicago Police Officer was shot outside a police station on Sunday afternoon. He is in good condition.