Chicago Cop Gunned Down Following Shift Guarding Daley's Home

Oh my. One can only imagine the anti-gun fervor to follow.

A 62-year-old police uniformed officer who had finished his shift guarding Mayor Daley’s home overnight was killed after 6 a.m. when at least two men tried to steal his Buick outside the officer’s house in the Chatham neighborhood Sunday, sources said.

The officer was to retire in two weeks under mandatory rules and had bought himself a retirement gift of the new vehicle, he said. There were bullet holes through the windshield of the car at 74th and Evans.

Sources said there were three guns found on the scene and that the officer’s gun was empty and open, and so he may have been able to fire at the robbers.

Calumet Area detectives were on the scene.

Independent Police Review Authority spokesman Curtis Tarver said he had been notified that an officer was shot. The IPRA investigates all police-involved shootings. rules and had bought himself a retirement gift of the new vehicle, he said. There were bullet holes through the windshield of the car at 74th and Evans.

Our condolences to the officer's family and friends. It's a sad comment on the miserable condition Chicago is in under Daley's leadership that even law enforcement isn't safe from the monsters who roam the streets.