Officers responded to the 9800 block of Milwaukee Avenue early Tuesday morning after Mercedes Smith, 28, was struck by the vehicle of a Cook County Sheriff's officer.

A pedestrian hit by a Cook County Sheriff's officer's squad car in Glenview, Illinois, has died. The crash happened on Tuesday morning. Police said shortly after 5 a.m., the woman was walking on Milwaukee Avenue northwest of Golf and Greenwood roads when she was hit by the squad car.

Mercedes Smith had to be taken off life support this week after being hit by the squad car in north suburban Glenview. Marissa Sulek reports.