Hundreds gathered to pay their respects at a visitation for slain Chicago police Officer Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso on Wednesday.
Officers walk outside Blake-Lamb Funeral Home in Oak Lawn on March 8, 2023, while attending a visitation for Chicago police Officer Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso.
Hundreds paid respects at a visitation for slain Chicago police Officer Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso on Wednesday. The line of mourners, including dozens of police officers and other first responders in dress uniforms, poured out of Oak Lawn’s Blake-Lamb Funeral Home for much of the service, stretching along the building’s sidewalk. Two officers on horseback stood sentry at the funeral home’s door. An American flag rippled above the solemn procession, hung from the outstretched ladder of a Chicago Fire Department truck.Inside the funeral home, “you could have heard a pin drop,” former Ald. Bob Fioretti said.
The visitors included Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Ald. Matt O’Shea, 19th, said he came “to show his respect for a hero.”Vásquez Lasso’s funeral will take place at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel in the Ashburn neighborhood before a private burial. O’Shea called on residents in his southwest Chicago ward to line the streets during Vásquez Lasso’s funeral procession.
Outside the funeral home, Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara Jr. passed out black and blue police mourning bands. Vásquez Lasso, 32, was shot and killed while responding to a domestic violence incident, Catanzara noted.Chicago Tribune editors' top story picks, delivered to your inbox each afternoon.
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