When Air Force One landed, Biden spoke with Lightfoot, expressing his personal support for the officers who were shot. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has said she plans to discuss gun control and the city’s violence, which has included an increase in shootings this year, when she meets with the president.Ī Justice Department spokesperson said Attorney General Merrick Garland was briefed on the shooting and aboard Air Force One on the president’s flight to Chicago, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the administration was also “monitoring the situation in coordination with the Department of Justice and ATF.” The shooting came ahead of a scheduled visit to suburban Crystal Lake, Illinois, by President Joe Biden. A department spokesman told the Associated Press that a person of interest was in custody and being questioned by detectives. The officers were treated for their injuries at an area hospital and released later Wednesday. Two of the officers are agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and one is a Chicago officer, Brown said. The three were in an unmarked undercover vehicle on their way to an assignment when they were shot, Chicago police Superintendent David Brown told reporters. near the 22nd District police station in the city’s Morgan Park neighborhood. CHICAGO (AP) - Three undercover law enforcement officers were shot and wounded Wednesday morning while driving onto an expressway on Chicago’s South Side, and detectives were questioning a “person of interest” about the shooting, police said.