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Suspect in slaying of Officer Luis Huesca arrested in Glendale Heights — with Huesca's own handcuffs
Xavier L. Tate Jr., 22, was taken into custody without incident shortly after 7 p.m. following a “multi-state investigation” that involved the Chicago Police Department and “many other” law enforcement agencies.
The statistics, compiled by the Chicago Police Department, show response times over the last six years were more than two minutes quicker with a ShotSpotter alert than when the gunshot detection alert was accompanied by a 911 call.
Huesca was attacked early April 21 in the 3100 block of West 56th Street, not far from where he lived in Gage Park.
The boy was in good condition at the University of Chicago Medical Center suffering from a gunshot wound to the lower back.
No one was injured and detectives are investigating the theft.
Anthony Driver Jr., president of the interim commission, and interim vice-president Remel Terry are among the mayor’s appointees.
What happened before Mayor Brandon Johnson finally agreed to stay away from slain officer's funeral?
John Catanzara, police union president, discussed the maneuvering with the Sun-Times. When the mayor’s office began “pushing back” against staying away, Catanzara said, the slain officer’s sister told him if the mayor showed up, she would “make a scene and throw him out myself.”
Caschaus Tate, 20, stopped investigators at the door of a home in Morgan Park, then went out the back and tossed a gun over a fence, police said.
The victim, found early Tuesday morning, hasn’t been identified.
FBI agents responded Monday to a robbery at the Chase Bank at 7941 Lincoln Ave.
A man, 32, was near the sidewalk in the 5600 block of West Diversey Avenue just before 6 p.m. when someone approached him and shot him with a handgun, police said. He was taken to Illinois Masonic Hospital where he later died.
They were standing near the sidewalk when someone opened fire around 1 p.m. Monday in the 1200 block of North Keeler Avenue, Chicago police said.
Family, friends and fellow law enforcement officers filled St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel for the funeral. “This day is for Officer Luis Huesca,” said Police Supt. Larry Snelling. “This is his day, nothing else.”
The man, 28, was found with multiple gunshot wounds around 3:15 a.m. Sunday in a parking lot of the Walgreens, 2001 N. Milwaukee Ave., officials said.
“Prisons exist to punish and rehabilitate people — not to torture and destroy them,” says the report from the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights.
The alleged gunman fled into a nearby building and a SWAT team responded, police said.
The man was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
The line of mourners who paid their respects to the slain officer stretched around Blake-Lamb Funeral Home in Oak Lawn. A combined reward of $100,000 is offered for the arrest of his attacker.
A Chicago man allegedly fired shots at another vehicle following a road rage incident. No injuries were reported.
Miram Chapman, 42, has been charged with shooting a 24-year-old after an argument inside a home in the 5700 block of South Wabash Avenue.
They were with a group of people in the 6100 block of West Dickens Avenue when someone in a dark sedan fired shots.