Two Milwaukee police officers were shot and have been critically injured after responding to a call for a person with a weapon late Thursday, police said.

MILWAUKEE - For the first time in more than two years, a Milwaukee police officer has died in the line of duty. Officer Kendall Corder and his partner were shot near 25th and Garfield, in what the police union president has described as "an ambush," on June 26. Corder died of his wounds on Sunday, June 29.