CPD Officer Killed In Line Of Duty Identified; Police Radio Traffic Leading Up To Shooting Released WARNING: Recording Is Emotionally Intense

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.

The offender, 18, was shot in the head and taken to a hospital in critical condition, Brown said.