Even Off Duty

Did she interrupt a mugging?

• No one was injured after an off-duty Chicago police officer exchanged gunfire with two people in the South Loop early Saturday morning, according to Chicago police.

  A man, 25, was on the sidewalk in the first block of West Polk Street at 3:45 a.m. when two people approached him, police said. A woman, a 25-year-old off-duty Chicago police officer, approached the group in a car, and one of the two people who had approached the man on the sidewalk shot at her before she shot back at them.

  No injuries were reported, and no one is in custody, police said.

Hopefully, she was just looking out for her companion. It could have been far worse than it turned out.

But as the saying goes, "Nothing good happens after two AM."

We might have to move that back to "...after sunset."