The Chicago Police Department officer who was shot and killed in the line of duty Wednesday has been identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office as Andres Vasquez-Lasso, 32.
Vasquez-Lasso was responding to a domestic incident involving a person with a gun. According to police radio traffic, a caller had indicated that a domestic disturbance had occurred and that the suspect was chasing a woman down the street near 53rd Street and Spaulding Avenue in Chicago. Vasquez-Lasso pursued the armed suspect on foot, and was shot multiple times while returning fire, according to Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown.
Vasquez-Lasso was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital where he later died.
The moments leading up to the shooting are recounted below in a recording of police radio traffic. WARNING: The recording is emotionally intense.
#BREAKING: Chicago Police Officer shot and critically wounded during a foot chase near 53rd/Spaulding in Gage Park.
— Eric Tendian (@EricTendian) March 1, 2023
Police radio traffic in the moments leading up to the shooting:#ChicagoScanner pic.twitter.com/ROwhrV0KCJ
The offender, 18, was shot in the head and taken to a hospital in critical condition, Brown said.
