Chicago woman struck, killed by Cook County sheriff’s squad car in Glenview

An autopsy is planned Thursday for a Chicago woman who died after being struck by a Cook County sheriff’s officer’s vehicle Tuesday morning in Glenview.

Officers responded to the 9800 block of Milwaukee Avenue around 5:10 a.m. Tuesday ater Mercedes Smith, 28, was hit by the squad car, Glenview police said.

Smith, a Near West Side resident, was taken to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, where she was pronounced dead there at 4:05 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The Glenview Police Department is investigating.

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