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TORRES v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 1-03-0357.

816 N.E.2d 816 (2004)

352 Ill. App.3d 533

287 Ill.Dec. 849

Angelina TORRES, Special Administrator of the Estate of Hector Rivera, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Sixth Division.

September 17, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher T. Hurley & Associates, Chicago (Christopher T. Hurley and Mark R. McKenna, of counsel), for Appellant.

Mara S. Georges, Corporation Counsel of the City of Chicago (Lawrence Rosenthal, Benna Ruth Solomon and Sara K. Hornstra, of counsel), for Appellee.

Justice McNULTY delivered the opinion of the court:

On July 24, 1998, police officers responded to a call to 911 reporting a shooting. When officers arrived at the scene shortly after 2 a.m., Hector Rivera was lying on a bathroom floor, bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds. Police called for an ambulance for Rivera an hour and a half later. Rivera died that morning. Angelina Torres, as special administrator of Rivera's estate, sued the City of Chicago (the City)...

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