2,000 Attend Funeral for Slain Chicago Officer

Hundreds of police officers and mourners gathered Friday at St. Andrews Greek Orthodox Church in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood for the funeral of Officer John Bartholomew, a 10-year Chicago Police Department veteran fatally shot in the line of duty on April 25.

Bartholomew, 38, from Evanston, was killed while escorting suspect Alphanso Talley, 26, at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital on the city's North Side. Talley, arrested earlier that morning for allegedly robbing a Family Dollar store at gunpoint in Albany Park, had complained of swallowing narcotics and leg numbness, prompting officers to take him for treatment. Prosecutors said Talley, with his left arm cuffed to a hospital bed and a blanket over his lower body, pulled a concealed handgun and shot Bartholomew in the head as the officer uncuffed him. He then wounded Bartholomew's partner, Officer Nelson Crespo, who remains hospitalized. Talley fled the locked-down facility but was captured nearby under a porch. Authorities are investigating how he obtained the weapon despite being in custody.

The service drew about 2,000 attendees, including Mayor Brandon Johnson and former Mayor Richard M. Daley. Streets around the...