This is not only a sad story, but one that should anger most people. How do thugs like this ever get back on the streets?
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/07/suspect-charged-in-officers-shooting-death.html
Weis said Soderberg, 43, was leaving work at the police facility at 61st Street and Racine Avenue to play in a volleyball game. He was an instructor at the police training academy but had been deployed to a special task force aimed at combating youth violence.
"This is the time of the day where officers breathe a sigh of relief. Their tour is over and now they get to be with their families and their friends," Weis said. "However because of the incomprehensible acts of a 24-year-old convicted felon, Officer Soderberg did not make it to that volleyball game. Officer Soderberg was killed by this vicious criminal," Weis said.
The 11-year police veteran was still in uniform in the facility's parking lot when Brewer approached him from behind and reached for the officer's weapon, according to police.
During a struggle, Brewer grabbed Soderberg's handgun and shot the officer, authorities said. Soderberg was shot three times--in the head, back, and face, said assistant state's attorney John Dillon, in the hearing before Ocasio. Brewer then crossed the street, weapon still in hand, and shot at Richard Mints, a contractor sitting on a nearby porch.
After Mints was shot, Brewer also shot at the police building Soderberg had left, Dillon said today.
Officers rushed to the scene and shot Brewer during an exchange of gunfire.
Brewer did later "make an admission" to the crime, said Wentworth Area Detective Allen Szudarski.
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