An off-duty Chicago police officer was killed in a motorcycle crash in suburban Forest View about 2 AM on Sunday.

According to Steve Good, Forest View chief of police, a motorcyclist, whom law enforcement sources identified as off-duty Chicago police Officer Charles Barango, stopped at a red light at Central Avenue after exiting the Stevenson Expressway.

According to officials, the light turned green, and Barango drove forward. Then a northbound vehicle ran a red light and hit him.

Good informed that Barango had been taken to Loyola University Medical Center and pronounced dead .

The driver of the vehicle that hit Barango's motorcycle is in custody, and charges have been pending.

At a Sunday morning news conference, police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said that Barango was a 14 years department veteran who was assigned to the 5th District tactical unit.

When asked whether the driver who struck Barango was drunk, Johnson said it was too early to say definitively, "but that could very well be the issue."

By Prakriti Neogi