A shooting that claimed the life of a Chicago police officer unfolded in front of a group of children who were playing at a nearby grade school in Gage Park, according to a witness who called 911. And it happened just a couple of miles from the home the officer had just moved to with his wife and young daughter.
Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso, 32, was shot several times as he chased an armed suspect about 4:45 p.m. Wednesday on the 5200 block of South Spaulding Avenue, across the street from Sawyer Elementary School.
Vasquez-Lasso was taken in"extremely critical condition" to Mount Sinai Medical Center, where he died and where a large group of officers somberly gathered through the night before his body was taken by procession to the Cook County morgue on the West Side. Vasqeuz-Lasso became the first Chicago officer to die in the line of duty since Officer Ella French, 29, was slain in August 2021 during a traffic stop shooting that also wounded her partner.
Vasqeuz-Lasso's family as started a GoFundMe fundraiser to help cover funeral costs and provide support to his loved ones going forward, ABC 7 reported.
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