UPDATE: 11/24/2024 9:55 a.m.
According to the NY Post, Chase Lackard is the son of Mount Vernon Police Deputy Commissioner Jennifer Lackard.
Lackard has held that position since 2020.
The younger Lackard was arrested back in September and then shot in the leg while running from police and pulling his own weapon on them.
Original:
Rocco Parascandola, Kerry Burke, Colin Mixson
New York Daily News
A 19-year-old man on supervised release for a gun charge was shot by police after he pulled a 9 mm. pistol on officers in the Bronx on Friday, police said.
Members of the 43rd Precinct Neighborhood Safety Team were responding to complaints of a dispute involving a firearm at the Stevenson Commons residential tower on White Plains Road near Lafayette Ave. in Soundview when they spotted the suspect and another man in a parking lot around 3:10 p.m., said NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell.
Upon seeing the uniformed officers riding in their unmarked vehicle, the 19-year-old, identified by police as Chase Lackard, pulled a handgun from his waistband and leveled the firearm at police, who immediately opened fire on the suspect, striking him twice in the leg, Chell said.
The suspect never got a shot off, the chief said.
The officers recovered a loaded Glock pistol and a knife from the scene.
The wounded suspect was taken to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition.
The unidentified man who had been seen walking with the suspect fled on foot.
According to law enforcement sources, Lackard is a known gang member who was arrested for criminal possession of a loaded firearm in August before a judge granted him supervised release at his arraignment on Sept. 12.
“In this case, the perp was arrested and indicted from a gun arrest from September 2024 and he’s walking around the streets of the Bronx today,” Chell said. “Our criminal justice system needs to be fixed.”
This is the second time police have shot an armed suspect this week.
On Tuesday, officers responding to a robbery near Jamaica Ave. and 164th St. in Jamaica, Queens, exchanged gunfire with Gary “Green Eyes” Worthy around 6:30 p.m.
Worthy ripped off one shot, striking Police Officer Rich Wong in the leg. A wounded Wong returned fire, fatally striking Worthy in the face, cops said.
Worthy was on lifetime parole and had served more than 14 years in prison after being convicted of drugs and weapons possession and burglary in 2009.
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