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La familia solicita que la Policía Estatal de Illinois se encargue de la investigación, ya que su abogado afirma que la versión del Departamento de Policía de Chicago no tiene credibilidad.
The family is asking the Illinois State Police to take over the investigation as their attorney says the Chicago Police Department’s story of what happened doesn’t “pass the smell test.”
Officer Carlos A. Baker has had more than a dozen complaints against him, records show.
Records obtained by the Illinois Answers Project and the Sun-Times found the Glock handgun should have been destroyed after it was turned in to police at a buyback at St. Sabina Church.
The revolver that Cook County Judge William Stewart Boyd turned in at a Chicago police gun buyback resurfaced at the scene of a fatal police shooting in Cicero in 2012. Police said it would be “difficult and unwise” to interview anyone involved in the buyback and closed the investigation.
The Chicago Police Department has used gun buybacks to get thousands of guns off the street, but at least two of them have resurfaced at crime scenes.
The state Department of Children and Family Services by law must make the reports public after examining what went wrong — but it didn’t do that in thousands of instances, the Illinois Answers Project found.