CHICAGO — Chicago police say two officers investigating a shots-fired call on the city’s far South Side have died after being struck by a train.

Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said the officers who were fatally hit Monday evening were 37-year-old Eduardo Marmolejo and 31-year-old Conrad Gary.

Johnson said Marmolejo had been with the department for two and a half years and Gary for 18 months.

Local news reports said the officers were struck shortly after 6 p.m. by a train operated by the South Shore commuter rail line that links Northern Indiana and Chicago.

Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said that a weapon was recovered and a person of interest was being questioned by police at the scene.

Associated Press