A 33-year-old Wheeling police officer died Saturday, two days after she became ill during a department training session, police said.
Shamekia Goodwin-Badger was taken to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge on Thursday, according to a news release from police in northwest suburban Wheeling. The release does not specify the type of training police were doing or the cause of her death two days later.
Goodwin-Badger was an Iraq war veteran who served Wheeling for five years and nearby suburb Hawthorn Woods for four years before that, police said. A Florida native, Goodwin-Badger had a 13-year-old daughter, according to the news release.
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