A young Chicago police officer was killed in the line of duty Monday night in the East Chatham neighborhood, and two people are in custody. Another person was killed in the incident. The Chicago Police Department is in pain after losing one of their own.

A Chicago police officer was among two people shot and killed on the city's South Side on Monday night, CPD said.

A Chicago police officer was shot Monday night on the South Side, sources said. The officer was shot around 8 p.m. near the intersection of East 82nd Street and South Ingleside Avenue. Additional details of the shooting were not immediately available but sources said the officer was in critical condition.

As the country woke up on a historic Election Day with thousands heading out to vote, daylight also greeted many Chicagoans with a grim reminder of the seemingly intractable challenges in their home city: yet another fallen police officer,

The shooting occurred after 8 p.m. in the 8000 block of South Ingleside Avenue. Another person was found shot to death at the scene, police say. Officers reported over the radio that an SUV fled the area carrying two people,