Crime & Safety
Jury Picked For Trial Of Man Charged With Shooting, Killing Chicago Police Officer Andres Vasquez Lasso
Defendant Steven Montano jumped out of a window and ran back toward the alley to get away from responding officers, prosecutors said.
July 15, 2025
A jury was impaneled Monday for the trial of the man accused of the murder of Chicago police Officer Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso.
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Officer Vásquez Lasso was shot and killed on the job back in March 2023. The now-21-year-old defendant, Steven Montano, was 18 at the time of the shooting.
On March 1, 2023, Vásquez Lasso officer was responding to a call about a domestic incident near Montano's home in the Southwest Side's Gage Park neighborhood. Prosecutors from the Cook County State's Attorney's office said Montano's 37-year-old girlfriend called 911 after he threatened her with a gun.
