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A Bradley police officer who was critically wounded in a December shooting that killed another officer is out of intensive care and may soon be released from a hospital, his family says.

Bradley Police Sergeant Marlene Rittmanic, who was shot and killed in the line of duty while responding to a noise complaint at a Kankakee County hotel last week, was remembered at her funeral as not just an officer but “a wife, a friend, a fur mom.” NBC 5’s Chris Coffey reports.

Twenty years before she was killed in the line of duty, Bradley Police Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic had written a poem about the risk officers take each day when they put on their uniform.

“Our world has been turned upside down, obliterated and hopelessly broken,” Lyn Stua, wife of Fallen Bradley Police Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic, spoke on Friday at the funeral at Olivet Nazarene University in the Hawkins Centennial Chapel.

A funeral is scheduled to be held Friday for fallen Bradley Police Sergeant Marlene Rittmanic, who was shot and killed in the line of duty while responding to a noise complaint at a Kankakee County hotel.

A funeral is scheduled to be held Friday for fallen Bradley Police Sergeant Marlene Rittmanic, who was shot and killed in the line of duty while responding to a noise complaint at a Kankakee County hotel last week.

A visitation is scheduled for Thursday for fallen Bradley Police Sergeant Marlene Rittmanic, who was shot and killed in the line of duty while responding to a noise complaint at a Kankakee County hotel last week.

A judge has denied bail to the second of two people charged with killing one police officer and wounding another at a northern Illinois hotel last week

Officials provided details on the investigation into the double shooting of Kankakee police officers, while Kankakee County State’s Attorney Jim Rowe will discuss recent news that he has submitted an official request for federal murder charges and a federal death sentence for two suspects charged in the case. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey reports.

A Bradley police sergeant was “desperately pleading for her life” moments before a gunman fatally shot her with the officer’s own gun, Kankakee County prosecutors said Monday.

Funeral services are set to be held this week for fallen Bradley Police Sergeant Marlene Rittmanic, who was shot and killed in the line of duty while responding to a noise complaint at a Kankakee County hotel last week.