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.
"There were a lot of kids because it happened in front of the school," said the woman, who did not want to be named for her safety. "And they go there to play. And we thought it was safe, so we would go and let them play there. But now it’s changed.", 32, was shot several times as he chased an armed suspect around 4:45 p.m. Wednesday in 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. She said the four of them worked an earlier shift than Vasquez-Lasso and only knew him in passing, but knew he was bright and on the rise. "He was always smiling," she said.
She called her son and was relieved when he picked up the phone, but she was devastated to hear what had happened and to know what had happened to another mother. "We have sons that every day put their life on the line. We knew that they leave, but we don’t know if they’re going to come back," she said.
A stolen Honda Accord had been used in the shooting in the 2600 block of West 23rd Place around 8:10 p.m. on July 28. A 27-year-old man suffered two gunshot wounds to his left leg, the report states.
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