Cook Coke Judge William Stewart Boyd handed over two old rifles in the resulting church in southern Chicago for nearly two decades.
They were among more than 5,900 rifles, the Chicago Police Department recovered in the re -purchases that day – the most successful transfers at all.
But five years later, one of the guns gave up to appear at the place of fire on the deadly police in Checheron.
The Better Goovernment Association, which publishes the Illinois Answers project, informed Chicago Sun Times for the first time in 2017, prompting an internal investigation into the Chicago police.
After Chicago initially refused to issue records of this investigation, saying that it was still open, a lawsuit against Illinois was filed for the results.
Records show that there was no attempt to determine the error that happened or how to fix the problem.
Boyd was not interviewed. None of the officers who might have dealt with the gun were.
“He did not surprise me, I tell you the truth,” says Boyd. “For me to turn a weapon to the Qatari program document and end in Checkharun, what does that tell you?”
A fatal shooting, then suicide
The Chicago Police treated more than 3000 rifles during the first city re -purchase in 2006, according to news reports.
The event was paid with a series of violent deaths. Two girls from England were shot with their homes, and a musician was shot in a car park in the church in Rosland.
The following summer, Bayde took his steel to a soft load, as the police eventually treated 264 firearms.
Records of the investigation show a 357 -caliber RUGER pistol. But his late father was found Smith & Weson.
Cesar Monif was shot by Cishdron police officer on July 5, 2012.
The officer, Don Gary, told the investigators that Mounif directed the Venice to another officer after they responded to the invitation of a gang battle.
Boyd later signed a written testimony that the weapon belongs to his father and was handed over to the Chicago police.
The Monif family filed a lawsuit against Garyti and the town of Cheryon, saying that the Venice had been planted on Munive. Calcoron settled the case for $ 3.5 million.
Garrett criticized the settlement on social media.
“A policeman enters a shooting with another man carrying a weapon, and the policeman and his family go to hell in the media! … and the police police continue every time they have to use any kind of force, not to mention the deadly force.” GARRITY was written in a Facebook post in February 2018.
About four months later, Garyti shot his head with GLOCK 17 pistol – the same rifle that Munive killed.
Garyti told family and medical service providers that he suffers from a post -traumatic disorder that he linked to the confrontation with Montif and shooting at working hours.
But he also followed his struggles to his experience in the work of the Abrams tank during the 1993 siege of the United States government of the Davidian Object in Waku, Texas, where 76 people died.
Flames Compound in Waco, Texas, was flooded from fire on April 19, 1993.
The investigation did not go anywhere
While Garyti was still alive, Chicago Police announced an internal investigation into the lost Venice after I mentioned BGA and Sun Times in the case. It was one of the longest cases of internal affairs in the section between 2017 and 2023.
The city refused to hand over the records in the case, prompting Illinois answers to Su. In one of the court session, Salvador Sirano, a former supervisor of the records of the Internal Affairs Office, said that there is an “unwritten base” against launching the results of the ongoing investigations.
But the Cook Anna Loftus province, who heads the civil case, has ruled that the administration's open investigations “allow CPD to maintain a possible shadow file to avoid the production of documents for the public.”
According to the records obtained through the lawsuit, officer Sean Beckett led the investigation. He estimated that hundreds of police officers may have been involved in the re -purchase and said it would be practical to make interviews with them all – so he did not speak to anyone.
“Trying to communicate with an incomplete amount of the members of the department, with many of them retirement, will be difficult and not wise.” “The question of whether any of them had information about a missing firearm and why they have not reported that for more than a decade will be a problem.”
The name of the officer, George Ant, appeared on most of the paper works documenting the re -purchase.
Onate reported the correspondents that he had processed about 1500 rifles per month, which entered the police, including those that resulted from re -purchases.
He was responsible for contacting the FBI and Illinois Police to verify whether weapons are linked to other crimes. After that, they put them in a box that the other police would take to destroy them.
Onate says that the unit of evidence was partially operating by serious officers who had a problem.
He was transferred to the evidence unit after he was accused of sexual assault on a 14 -year -old girl. Limiter interior affairs said he took it to a motor room, which paid for it, but no physical contact occurred.
They met while working on the fighting control team, which was part of the department's special operations department. The unit, known as SOS, was assigned to combat gangs in high -crime areas. It was dissolved when some of the unit officers were accused of killing, tax evasion and drug dealers.
Onate resigned from the department in March 2008 after Interim Supt. Dana Starks moved to shoot him on the allegations of the attack. He did not face any criminal charges.
Onate says he resigned to save his family from embarrassment.
“If you do not have any protection, they throw you into wolves,” he says.
Casey Toner and Peter Nikas report on the Illinois Answers Project. Tom Shuba is a Shams Times correspondent.
