Accused Chicago officer killer ordered held without bond

Chicago firefighters set up a large American flag outside the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office for a procession carrying the remains of a police officer who was shot on Wednesday, March 1, 2023. The officer was shot on the city's Southwest Side while responding to a call of a man chasing a woman with a gun, Police Superintendent David Brown said. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

CHICAGO (AP) — A judge ordered a teenager held without bond Friday in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer.

Steven Montano, 18, of Chicago, is .

The officer was shot several times Wednesday afternoon on the city’s Southwest Side, Chicago Police Department has said. He was identified Thursday as Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso, 32, by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

The bail hearing was held a short time after the body of Vasquez-Lasso was taken with a police escort from the medical examiner’s office to a funeral home in Oak Lawn.

Montano was being chased when he suddenly turned around and pointed a gun at Vasquez-Lasso, prosecutors said at the hearing, the reported. The two exchanged gunfire, with Montano hitting the officer in the head, arm and leg, prosecutors said. The officer fired twice and hit Montano in the face.

A police officer testified that Montano remained in critical condition Friday at Stroger Hospital.

An assistant public defender representing Montano said she had not had the opportunity to speak with her client and could provide no information about him for the hearing.

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