CHICAGO — A man has been ordered held in the murder of Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca. Xavier L. Tate, 22, faced a judge at a detention hearing Friday morning where he was ordered detained. Next court date is set for May 22. Tate was charged Thursday with first-degree murder in the officer’s death. According […]
The heads of the Chicago Police Department and Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office were joined by Mayor Brandon Johnson in announcing murder charges against the man who allegedly shot and killed off-duty CPD officer Luis Huesca last month in Gage Park. “Today, we honor (Huesca) as we hold accountable the offender who is responsible for his murder,” CPD superintendent Larry Snelling said .
The suspect wanted in connection with last month’s fatal shooting of off-duty Chicago police Officer Luis Huesca was taken into custody Wednesday, according to an alderman and a police source familiar with the investigation. A Cook County judge last week issued an arrest warrant charging Xavier Tate, 22, with murder in the April 21 killing of Huesca, 30, near Huesca’s home in the Gage Park .
The Chicago Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force took Xavier L. Tate Jr. into custody on suspicion of the murder of Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca. Tate Jr. was found Wednesday night in the Chicago suburb of Glendale Heights, Illinois, police said. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said Huesca's death was the result of "an act of unconscionable gun violence in our city."
CHICAGO — A first-degree murder charge was approved by Cook County prosecutors Thursday in the fatal April shooting of off-duty Chicago police officer Luis Huesca. Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office said in a statement Thursday that 22-year-old Xavier Tate Jr. was charged with first-degree murder for allegedly killing Huesca on April 21 near the officer’s Gage Park home. Tate is .