Englewood Shooting - Officer Down (Update)

Critical condition:

• A plain-clothes Chicago police officer was shot in the head and critically wounded early this morning in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side, authorities said.

  The attack occurred about 12:30 a.m. in the 6000 block of South Hermitage Avenue as the 27-year-old three-year veteran officer and his partner were investigating a report of shots fired, said Police Supt. Jody Weis at a news conference in the lobby of police headquarters.

  The shots were fired from a vehicle with more than one person in it, Weis said. Weis, who at the early morning news conference was wearing a gray Bears sweatshirt and blue jeans, refused to discuss that vehicle.

Thoughts and prayers ONLY at this time. Leave the rest for later.

UPDATE: Officer Alex Valadez succumbed to his wounds early this afternoon. RIP Officer.