Police release photos of the suspect wanted in the murder of a Chicago officer

Chicago police on Monday released video footage of a person wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of CPD Officer Luis Huesca in Gage Park last weekend.

The footage, apparently from supermarket security cameras, shows a black man wearing glasses and carrying a backpack. Police said the suspect “should be considered armed and dangerous.”

Just before 3 a.m. Sunday, Chicago Police responded to a “gunshot detection alert” in the 5500 block of South Kedzie Avenue and discovered Huesca, a 30-year-old who had been with the CPD for six years, with multiple gunshot wounds in the 3100 block of South Kedzie Avenue. West 56th Street. He was pronounced dead at the University of Chicago Medical Center. His car was stolen at the scene, police said.

Huesca was a member of the Calumet District (5th) Priority Response Team. He was off duty but in uniform when he was shot.

Huesca is the third Chicago police officer to be shot this year — and the first fatally. On January 8, a veteran police officer was shot in the leg during an exchange of gunfire with a burglary suspect in the Gold Coast neighborhood. On March 21, an officer was shot by Dexter Reed, who was killed during a traffic stop in Humboldt Park.