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Chicago police officers are mourning after one of their own was killed in the line of duty Wednesday.
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Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso, 32, was shot and killed as he chased an armed suspect who suddenly turned and fired “at close range” in Gage Park, FOX 32 reports.
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Man who allegedly killed a Chicago police officer Wednesday was arrested last summer, but prosecutors rejected felony charges
By: CWB, Chicago Citywide, March 2, 2023
Update 7:45 a.m. – The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified the officer as Andres Vasquez-Lasso, 32.
A Chicago police officer was killed Wednesday in a close-range exchange of gunfire with a man while investigating a domestic altercation in Gage Park, officials said. The 18-year-old man who allegedly shot the officer received a gunshot wound to his head and remains hospitalized in critical condition.
CWB Chicago has learned that the 18-year-old was arrested last summer after police said he and two other people ran from a car that had just been used in a shooting. The Cook County state’s attorney’s office rejected felony charges against him but approved charges against the other two people.
ADVERTISEMENTChicago Police Supt. David Brown said the slain officer had been with the department for five years. Records from the Chicago Office of Inspector General show that no complaints had been filed against the officer during his time on the force.
Armed domesticAround 4:45 p.m. Wednesday, four officers responded to a call of a man chasing a woman with a gun in the 5200 block of South Spaulding during a domestic altercation, police said. Officers saw the 18-year-old man running from the scene, and they chased after him, according to a CPD media statement.
The statement said that the 18-year-old fired his weapon, striking the officer multiple times, and the officer returned fire, striking the man in the head. Police recovered the man’s handgun at the scene, according to CPD. We are not identifying the man by name because he has not been criminally charged. CPD has not publicly identified the fallen officer.
Last summer, witnesses to a shooting in Little Village told police that a white Honda with three Hispanic male occupants pulled up next to the victim and began shooting, prosecutors said during bail hearings for the 18-year-old and the driver last year. The victim, a 29-year-old man, was shot twice in the leg.
A Chicago police homicide support team that responded to the shooting saw a stolen car matching the shooters’ vehicle running stop signs and red lights while being driven by a man wearing a ski mask, the prosecutors said.
When the car stopped, three people allegedly ran from it: the 18-year-old involved in Wednesday’s shooting, a 15-year-old boy, and a 22-year-old man.
Police arrested the two adults on opposite sides of the same street a short time later. Prosecutors said police found two firearms along the path they followed while running from officers. A CPD arrest report for the 18-year-old said the guns were found by Illinois State Police canines in a yard three houses down from where officers found him hiding under a porch.
ADVERTISEMENTDuring the 22-year-old’s bail hearing, a prosecutor said the guns were found in a yard where a police helicopter crew saw the 22-year-old make a “throwing gesture” while running.
He was charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, fleeing and eluding, and resisting. He paid a $200 bail deposit to get out of jail and is now facing additional charges for allegedly robbing a woman while having a gun in his getaway car just three weeks later, according to court records.
Prosecutors charged the 15-year-old with aggravated battery by discharging a firearm, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and criminal trespass to a vehicle.
Chicago police detectives asked prosecutors to charge the 18-year-old with aggravated battery by discharging a firearm, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and criminal trespass to a vehicle, CPD records show. But the state’s attorney’s office rejected those charges, leaving the man to face a single misdemeanor count of resisting police, according to the records.
During his bail hearing for the resisting charge, an assistant state’s attorney and the judge both noted that the state’s attorney’s office felony review unit rejected charges against the 18-year-old, who has no criminal convictions in his background.
“I read the arrest report,” Judge Barbara Dawkins said during the hearing. “It has a lot about what he’s not being charged with and not much about what he is being charged with.”
“So, essentially,” Dawkins summarized, “he’s being charged with running from the police … He is not charged with the weapons. He is not charged with the shooting.”
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