A man wanted in connection with the murder of an off-duty Chicago police officer last month has been taken into custody, according to Chicago police.
The department said its officers and the U.S. Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested 22-year-old Xavier Tate Jr. for first-degree murder in Glendale Heights, Illinois, on Wednesday night.
Tate's arrest comes five days after he was identified as the suspect in the killing of 30-year-old Chicago police officer Luis Huesca, Fox News reports.
Huesca was shot and killed in the early morning hours of April 21 in the Gage Park area as he was on his way home from work. His personal vehicle was taken.
He was shot nearly 20 times with a firearm modified into an automatic weapon, FOX 32 Chicago previously reported.
The Chicago PD has classified Officer’s Huesca’s murder as a line-of-duty death.