(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A shooting on Chicago's West Side left a retired police officer dead on Thursday, the Chicago Police Department announced.
Chicago police said the 73-year-old man was shot multiple times shortly after 11:32 a.m. on West Monroe Street near South Kildare Avenue in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
West Side Ald. Jason Ervin (18th), whose ward includes West Garfield Park, confirmed that he knew the victim and identified him as Larry Neuman. Neuman was an assistant pastor at Saint Michaels Missionary Baptist church, located near his home.
"I do know he was a family man, and had been a good person, a pillar in the community [and] lived in West Garfield Park for 40-plus years," Ervin said.
Chicago fire officials said he was initially taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, which is where the Chicago Police Department said he was later pronounced dead.
Police officials confirmed to WBBM Newsradio that he started with the Chicago Police Department as a bomb technician in 1982 before retiring in 2010. He had been working at Midway Airport as a bomb appraisal officer before he died.
No one was taken into custody.
Area Four detectives are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting. A $25,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to the arrest or conviction of a suspect.
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