Ella French Obituary: A 29-year-old female cop in Chicago was killed and another official was truly injured in a trade of gunfire during a traffic stop, authorities said Sunday. The official killed Saturday night was recognized as Ella French, as indicated by a post on the Chicago Police Department’s Facebook page Sunday evening.

French’s passing was the principal deadly shooting of a Chicago official in the line of obligation since 2018 and the primary female official lethally shot at work in 33 years.

“We will always remember the genuine grit she exemplified as she laid her life down to ensure others,” the office said of French on Facebook, adding that individual officials will “lament the deficiency of this legend.” The division likewise mentioned support for French’s “injured accomplice, who is in the emergency clinic battling for his life.”

At a Sunday news gathering, Mayor Lori Lightfoot encouraged Chicagoans to end the bitterness between enthusiastic police advocates who say officials are hampered by excessively oppressive guidelines and ardent pundits who say officials act without any potential repercussions.