SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Chicago Police Department knew that Officer Carlos Baker was reckless and posed a threat to his partner, Krystal Rivera, before Baker fatally shot her last summer while the pair attempted to apprehend a suspect with a gun, a lawsuit filed Thursday claims.

Rivera, 36, had told supervisors she feared for her safety with Baker as her partner and had ended a two-year on-again, off-again romantic relationship with him shortly before the shooting on June 5, according to the lawsuit. Additionally, the department knew of Baker’s history of complaints, including one filed by a woman once romantically involved with Baker who said he had threatened her with a gun in a bar, it adds.

The lawsuit was filed in Cook County Circuit Court by Rivera’s mother, Yolanda Rivera. It

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