Injured Cop At Home, Resting
Good news:
- A decorated Chicago Police officer was released from the hospital Monday afternoon after a robber shot him while he was taking his young son out of a car on the Southwest Side.
The 34-year-old officer was shot in the arm and the chest. He suffered a broken wrist, but the bullets missed vital organs, a police spokeswoman said. He was treated at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
The officer, who is married with two children, received the Superintendent’s Award of Valor in November after he shot and killed a man who was holding a knife to a child.
The wrist injury is going to be the difficult one to come back from.
No word on leads on the shooter.
Labels: good news, officer injured
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
32 Comments:
God Bless brother ! Enjoy the Christmas Season with your family. Our Father was watching over you. Glad to hear you and your Son are well.
Glad to hear the Officer is home. Likewise, on Trib website, glad to hear Adam Sage reacted swiftly to potential cop hater comment, and turned comments on this story off within fifteen minutes of being notified of such. I'm from CPD family, complained to Adam, and got immediate results. Giving credit where credit is due. They are apparently more aware of anti law enforcement agenda within comments, and don't allow comments when a cop here is a victim, and if for some reason an error is made and an anti CPD/CPD hater comment slips through, they shut it down as they did this evening. I was impressed with the respect shown. Also, Adam showed genuine interest on any CPD family type story. his byline is on this story via the Trib link on SCC home page. And no, I'm not him. I'm from CPD family. Just nice to see the support from Trib.
Glad to hear you're alive officer and that you child was uninjured. I wish you a speedy recovery.
Bless you, brother, and I hope your son and family recover from this also. True justice will prevail. I didn't meet CPD quota requirements in the '70s so was stuck on The List. Went with another dept. (no residency requirement). When CPD did call, the old-timer told me that I was better off staying put. The writing was on the wall even back then. Shitcago is gone. Residency has to go to keep any semblance of civilized municipal service.
Cmdr Leo Schmitz was doing a great job at/on the off duty police shooting.this fucking guy is the police.he should be promoted to a dep chief or chief and he will still be on the street.a working exempt hard to believe.
Leo schmitz is a great boss was at the scene fast, he loves the police great job boss
Anonymous said...
Cmdr Leo Schmitz was doing a great job at/on the off duty police shooting.this fucking guy is the police.he should be promoted to a dep chief or chief and he will still be on the street.a working exempt hard to believe.
12/11/2012 01:31:00 AM
Get off his nuts, loser. Leo does enough self promoting and doesn't need your help.
Cmdr Leo Schmitz was doing a great job at/on the off duty police shooting.this fucking guy is the police.he should be promoted to a dep chief or chief and he will still be on the street.a working exempt hard to believe.
12/11/2012 01:31:00 AM
Signed,
Leo Schmitz
Lol, says who? Leo? Lol!
Superintendent’s Award of Valor in November after he shot and killed a man who was holding a knife to a child,,,,,,,hopefully somebody is checking out the friends and family of the POS that he shot. This may not have been a robbery attempt.
Wrist injuries are tough. I get a lot of them.
I am THRILLED that the PO is doing well and I hope for a FULL recovery for him, and his child who had to witness this. I have not had the pleasure of meeting this young Officer but the people I know that know him, speak nothing but highly. WE need him back in due time. Until then, my family sends our prayers out to him and his family.
I also wanted to say thank you to the Oak Lawn Police Department who came to assist. Although it did not mention it in the news article, I'm sure there might have been a Bedford Park or Summit car there as well. It is appreciated. I worked in 8 a long time ago — it is a HUGE district with not enough police for the West end.
So thank you to the other agencies. I have NEVER had a problem with any of you, and the majority of us on the CPD have not, it is always the few who come on here to complain.
Please know your help was appreciated — you deserve to know that much.
Back each other up - ALL of our brothers in blue, whether it is navy blue or light blue, and may G-D bless us all.
Hope you are doing fine Officer! You protected yourself and your child from that scumbag. Enjoy the Holidays with your family and don't return until absolutely ready!
Anonymous said...
Cmdr Leo Schmitz was doing a great job at/on the off duty police shooting.this fucking guy is the police.he should be promoted to a dep chief or chief and he will still be on the street.a working exempt hard to believe.
12/11/2012 01:31:00 AM
Take it easy Leo.
the officer related that he thinks he got one of the offenders--- I hope he did and I hope his buddies dumped him in a trash bin somewhere--- hopefully you make a speedy recovery and get to enjoy xmas with your family....
leo does more police work than any other supervisor on cpd , merit or not , he's the real deal . he deserves a bump up .
I hope that the Officer makes a full recovery.
I have the honor of working with the police officer shoot..a good man no no a great man... Wish him nothing but the best.
"Cmdr Leo Schmitz was doing a great job at/on the off duty police shooting.this fucking guy is the police.he should be promoted to a dep chief or chief and he will still be on the street.a working exempt hard to believe."
12/11/2012 01:31:00 AM
Good to hear from you Leo.
(Pretty obvious there's always an agenda to him. )
Saw those numerous apt. buildings in the background near the shooting. How many are section 8?
Wishing you a speedy recovery brother!!!! Thank God you will be ok. Terrible that your son had to see/hear this crap. Get well soon!!!
Get well soon office. Conceal carry was just passed in IL.maybe just maybe if someone was armed they could have intervened.
Mo, get better you are in mine and my family's prayers
Stay strong officer, we need more officers like you on the force.
This incident could have gone wrong in so many ways but you did the right thing and took a bullet for your family. Do your therapy and listen to you body, don't over work it. Good luck and hope to see you back soon.
Your great FOP union/president for you.. Calling the injured officer to let him know that the city might not consider this an iod but don't worry we have great success in winning those grievances.. FUCKING really?? Is this really the best time to add more stress to this officer?? He is worried about his health and family but let's fucking add more to his plate right now... Unfucking real
NOW, It's time to start advertising the $10g reward for info on shooting a CPD member. EVERY squad should have the bumper sticker that states this reward and this department will not get them out. A few more LODDs ????? Is that what it will take? And our illustrious Sup is from NYC where they have had this for 30 years. COME ON FOP !!!!!
I have never seen the likes of Commander Leo Schmitz, he is like Superman, Batman, Captain America and Spiderman, all rolled into one perfect WWF body.
12/11/2012 07:23:00 AM
They were there. You're correct, we should and do thank them.
Get well Mo!
SpankDaddy said...
Wrist injuries are tough. I get a lot of them.
12/11/2012 06:49:00 AM
Too Hilarious!, give that wrist a rest!
"Saw those numerous apt. buildings in the background near the shooting. How many are section 8?"
12/11/2012 11:12:00 AM
...with police, fire, city worker collecting the rent?
:-)
"Background" is a good thought, though. No matter what kind of building, people in there. Hate to find someone sitting on the couch watching TV forever. No one else hurt = good deal. Thank God.
Yow. Holidays are walleyed-on-plastic-bottle-Dmitri-and "tic"-time (remember "tic?" Sales pitch -- It f__k you up) with every imaginable and unimaginable horrible family conflict boiling to the surface.
The famous That's MY Candy Dish killings. Be extra careful, all.
Ring-ring-ring-ring-ting-jing-a-ling...
"I also wanted to say thank you to the Oak Lawn Police Department who came to assist. Although it did not mention it in the news article, I'm sure there might have been a Bedford Park or Summit car there as well.
12/11/2012 07:23:00 AM
...and a shout out to BRC PD. We know you're in there -- busy shining lights in the weeds and checking the car seals. Keep the slack stretched...
"Back each other up - ALL of our brothers in blue, whether it is navy blue or light blue, and may G-D bless us all."
There it is.
He is IOD and was given an overtime slip. Big bosses did TRR
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