AROUND THE COUNTRY CHICAGO, IL. Off-duty Chicago officer Luis Huesca was shot to death in Gage Park while he was driving home from his shift. 44 The Blues - May ‘24 CHICAGO, IL. - Off-duty Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca was shot to death on the Southwest Side early Sunday morning, CPD said. CPD Supt. Larry Snelling said the shooting happened in the 8th Police District as the uniformed officer was heading home from his shift. Officers responded to a gunshot detection alert in the 5500 block of South Kedzie Avenue the city’s Gage Park neighborhood just before 3 a.m., Snelling later said in a statement. The officers toured the area and drove to the 3100 block of West 56th Street, where they found the off-duty officer, who had been shot multiple times. The officer’s vehicle had been taken from the scene, police officials said. During a press conference later Sunday morning, Snelling said the 30-year-old officer was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. “He was a great officer,” Snelling said. “A great human being, and his family is dealing with a lot right now.” Mayor Brandon Johnson released a statement, identifying the officer as Luis M. Huesca of the 5th District’s Priority Response Team. A candle-light vigil was held Sunday night outside of Officer Huesca’s home. A large crowd, including multiple police officers, gathered to pay their respects to Huesca. People who live near the scene of the shooting in Gage Park said they heard the shots fired and are devastated now, knowing what happened. “It’s just really sad how the community has said... a cop dying and he was really young,” resident Kimberly Belacco said. “It’s something that we need to change.” A YouTube video posted by the Chicago Police Department last year shows Officer Luis Huesca paying tribute to Officer Andrés Vásquez Lasso, who was shot and killed in the line of duty. “This is not a symbol of us versus them. I hate injustices and lawlessness as well. That’s why I became a cop,” Officer Huesca said in the video. Huesca had served with the department for six years, Snelling said. He was just two days OFFICER LUIS HUESCA shy of his 31st birthday. Police said a ShotSpotter alert near 55th Street and Kedzie Avenue alerted them to the shooting. Superintendent Snelling said Huesca was still in his CPD uniform when he was killed, though it may have been covered up. “The officer’s vehicle was taken, but to get to the total motive of what happened, we need more information,” Snelling said. The vehicle appeared to have been located hours later, less than a half-mile away in an alleyway near 56th Street and Mozart. Officers blanketed that area as well, collecting evidence and interviewing residents.
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