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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.
Chicago 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.
During 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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13 Comments1 year agoTime for instant death of these criminal parasites and the morons letting them out!!!!
1 year agoWhere is the Star Chamber when they are needed?
1 year agoThere once was a time when the “mob” took out one of their own for killing a cop.
1 year agoReply to k33j88The Democrat Criminal Terrorist Organization, makes the Mafia look like Choir Boys.
1 year ago“Chicago Office of Inspector General show that no complaints had been filed against the officer during his time on the force.” Wow, glad we got that cleared up.
1 year agoReply to CharlesEchoYeah. If there had been one complaint, no matter what it was, that is what this article would have been about. I wouldn’t be a cop for any amount of money, unless I could direct the loonies to the certain politicians’ homes.
1 year agoThe reality is the thugs as that hooligan who who murdered this police officer are nothing original , such two legged pieces of trash have come and gone throughout history and none of them have ever amounted to such much as ” a hill of beans.”
That criminal and others just and evil and him never ,ever , contribute anything to society ,They don’t even create , make or do anything of any value or worth. They are completerly useless for accomplishing anything that is good. They only steal , loot murder and destroy.
After they die their fate is to enter into the fires of hell.
1 year agoThat hooligan who murdered ,Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso, should be executed by the law authorities of the State government of Illinois
This leads to the subject of Capital Punishment and those people who go outside a protest against the state government using of the death penalty and holding up signs show the words printed on them “Thou shall not kill”, those four words which are the sixth commandment , Exodus 20:13. are taken form the AUTHORIZED KING JAMES VERSION translation of the Bible of the Ten Commandments . By and large the A.K.J.V.is a good translation yet not a perfect one. For Jewish and Christian scholars who understand the original Hebrew which the Old Testament , some call it the “Older Testament “, of the Bible which was first written in Hebrew, the point the those scholars will inform all who are willing to listen that the word was “Murder”” and not “Kill” in the original Hebrew of which the First Old Testament was written.
There is a vast different between those two words “Killing “and “murder “, for example a dictionary definition of the word “Murder” is “the unlawful and malicious act of killing another person.” In contrast “Killing is defined as “To put to death or to slay”
So the anti-capital punishment people who quote Exodus 20:13 in the A.K.J. V. might also look up that same specific verse in the NEW KING JAMES VERSION and see how it’s put right by reading “ You shall not murder” For in the very next chapter in Exodus 21:12 it reads “He who strikes man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.”
Further, in the New Testament the Bible reader in Roman 13:1-4 that not only are governmental law enforcement forces are ordained by God to hold back and stop the criminal and wicked activities by evil and dangerous men. This also this may extent to the criminal courts which h included punishment for the evil doer. If the Bible student examines more closely the specific verse number four he or she will discover that the scripture even refers to the government executor as type of minister of God to punish such men.
That thug who murdered officer Vasquez-Lasso in the light of the Bible, should be put to death.
In conclusion, the people who use their constitutional right to speak out against capital punishment do and should have the right of freedom of speech and expression to let other know how they feel on the subject of capital punishment. Nevertheless they either don’t know or do know but couldn’t care less that they are misusing the Bible in quoting Exodus 20:13 out of context.
Some of the anti –capital punishment feel might feel real righteous and pious by quoting that single verse out of the whole Bible , still in spite of the “pious emotions” some of them might have ,they are still misusing the Bible.
In addition to all this, the Bible in is written “Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death.” Leviticus 24:17 [N.K.J.V.]
1 year agoThat malicious hooligan who murdered Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso in the city of Chicago is a villainous thug and a blatant villain.
The Bible teaches that a murderer “will not inherit the kingdom of God. “ Galatians 5:21.
Furthermore, in the Bible in Romans 13: 1, 2 it is written “Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore, whoever resists the authority resist resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.” [N.K.J.V.]
In addition to all this, in verses 3 and 4 in this same chapter of the Epistle of Romans, with emphasis on verse 4 it actually refers to governmental law enforcement officers as a type of “ministers of God” Therefore, it stands to reason that engaging in violence towards police officers are really, engaging in violence towards ministers of God. How evil, how heinously wicked, how demonic, how monstrous. What and affront to all that is decent, good and right.
Those who engage in violence against police officers must have murderous intentions. They are blatant villains. The Bible teaches that a murderer “will not inherit the kingdom of God. “ Galatians 5:21.Furthermore, in the Bible in Romans 13: 1, 2 it is written “Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore, whoever resists the authority resist resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.” [N.K.J.V.]
In addition to all this, in verses 3 and 4 in this same chapter of the Epistle of Romans, with emphasis on verse 4 it actually refers to governmental law enforcement officers as a type of “ministers of God” Therefore, it stands to reason that engaging in violence towards police officers are really, engaging in violence towards ministers of God. How evil, how heinously wicked, how demonic, how monstrous. What and affront to all that is decent, good and right.
1 year agoB.L.M. = “BLUE LIVES MATTER” . Period
Better to be judged by Twelve than carried by Six.
1 year agoThe officer’s family should sue the people who let this killer back onto the streets.
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