Chicago police officials say an officer killed this week was accidentally shot and killed by her partner after they encountered someone with a rifle when they chased a suspect into an apartment.

Police confirmed that the only person who fired a weapon during the chase was an officer, "whose gunfire unintentionally struck Officer Rivera."

Officer Krystal Rivera was excited to celebrate her daughter's 11th birthday this weekend. But Rivera's life was tragically cut short late Thursday, when she was fatally shot in the back by a bullet fired by another officer.