Off-duty Chicago police officer fatally shot in Gage Park while returning home from work [Video]

CHICAGO – An off-duty Chicago police officer has died after being shot in Gage Park overnight while returning home from work.

Officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert near 55th Street and Kedzie Avenue early Sunday just before 3 a.m. and found 30-year-old Officer Luis M. Huesca suffering from multiple gunshot wounds nearby.

Responding officers found the wounded off-duty officer in the 3100 block of West 56th Street. He was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 3:22 a.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Police say Huesca’s vehicle was taken, but could not confirm if the incident that led to the shooting was a carjacking, citing that the investigation was preliminary. Snelling said Huesca was in uniform at the time of the shooting but was wearing something that covered it since he was off duty.

No arrests have yet been made in connection with the …