A woman was stabbed and later died, and an off-duty police detective who witnessed the attack suffered a gunshot wound, in the Portage Park neighborhood Tuesday afternoon.The attacker was also later found dead.

A woman was stabbed to death and an off-duty Chicago police detective suffered a graze wound when he tried to intervene in the attack in the Portage Park neighborhood on the Far Northwest Side Tuesday afternoon,

An off-duty Chicago Police Department detective was wounded as he tried to stop a deadly attack that claimed the life of a woman on the city’s Northwest Side. According to Chicago police, the incident unfolded just before 2:30 p.

An off-duty Chicago Police Department detective was wounded as he tried to stop a deadly attack that claimed the life of a woman on the city's Northwest Side.

Officials responding about 2:20 p.m. Tuesday to the 5600 block of West Leland Avenue found the woman stabbed to death and the man suffering from a gunshot wound.

An investigation is underway after an off-duty Chicago police detective was wounded Tuesday afternoon by gunfire after intervening in a stabbing that left a woman dead in the city's Portage Park neighborhood,

The chain of events alarmed neighbors in the Northwest Side's Portage Park neighborhood. Darius Johnson reports.

The detective suffered a graze wound to the leg while trying to stop the attacker, but police did not specify if the attacker had a gun or shot the detective. Darius Johnson reports from Portage Park.

Paramedics responding about 2:20 p.m. to the 5600 block of West Leland Avenue found the woman stabbed to death and the man suffering from a gunshot wound, Chicago Fire Department officials said.