On Monday, Chicago police shared a video of a person they want to talk to about the shooting death of CPD Officer Luis Huesca in Gage Park over the weekend.
The video, which seems to come from security cameras at a convenience shop, shows a black man with glasses and a backpack. According to the police, the suspect “should be considered armed and dangerous.”
There was a “gunshot detection alert” in the 5500 block of South Kedzie Avenue just before 3 a.m. on Sunday. When police arrived, they found Huesca, a 30-year-old officer with six years of service, with multiple gunshot wounds in the 3100 block of West 56th Street. At the University of Chicago Medical Center, they said he was dead. Police say that his car was stolen at the spot.
A person named Huesca was on the 5th priority reaction team for the Calumet District. He wasn’t working when he was shot, but he was still in his outfit.
Huesca is the first police officer in Chicago to be killed this year and the third officer to be shot this year. During a shootout with a burglary suspect in the Gold Coast neighborhood on January 8, an experienced police officer was shot in the leg. Reed shot and killed a police officer on March 21 during a traffic stop in Humboldt Park.
