CPMF Vows To Support Slain Officer's Family 'From Today Forward'

CHICAGO — The Chicago Police Memorial Foundation provided Edith Huesca, the mother of slain Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca, with a check for $60,000 in financial assistance. The foundation provides emotional and financial support to the families of fallen police officers and those catastrophically injured in the line of duty.

The young officer was in uniform when he was gunned down in front of his home in Gage Park early Sunday morning after completing his shift. Huesca’s vehicle, service weapon and badge were stolen in the attack. He was pronounced dead at University of Chicago Medical Center two days before his 31st birthday.

“The Chicago Police Memorial Foundation stands with all Chicagoans and our brothers and sisters in the law enforcement community in mourning the tragic and untimely death of Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca,” the foundation said in an official statement.

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Calling Huesca a “bright young man whose vocation was to work every day in uniform to make the city he loved safer,” he was “doing that very thing Sunday morning when he was senselessly murdered.”

“This tragedy is the latest in a string of tragedies involving the untimely deaths of young enthusiastic police officers who were poised to serve all Chicagoans for decades to come. Instead, their lives have been violently and senselessly taken in the same fashion that too many other Chicagoans suffer,” the statement continued.

CPMF executive director Phil Cline and board president Sandra Wortham delivered the check Wednesday to Vuesca’s family.

“[T]he Chicago Police Gold Star Families and the Foundation will be at her side, supporting her and her family in every way they can from today forward,” the statement said.

Huesca was a six-year veteran who worked in the police department's 5th District as a member of the Priority Response Team. He is the eighth police officer to be fatally shot in Illinois since 2020 and the fourth Chicago police officer killed by gunfire since 2021.

CPD detectives are working to determine if the officer was gunned down during a carjacking.

Earlier this week, surveillance video of a “person of interest” believed tied to Huesca’s slaying. Police ask anyone who may recognize the individual in the video to contact CPD Area One Detectives at 312-747-8380 or dial 911.

Those with information that could help authorities in their investigation can also leave a tip at CPDtip.com. Tips can be filed anonymously.

To make a contribution to the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation visit here.