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Andres Vasquez Lasso GoFundMe raises more than $40,000 for Chicago cop shot and killed in line of duty

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Sophia Terry

Updated on January 20, 2026

A GoFundMe page for late Chicago cop Andres Vasquez Tether has earned more than $40,000 after he was shot to death in the line of obligation.

According to Fox News, the episode occurred on Walk 1, 2023, at around 4.45 pm when two officials answered a homegrown crisis on South Spaulding Road. Police Administrator David O. Brown let correspondents know that they got a call with respect to a gunned suspect following a female.

At the point when police showed up, one of them tapped on the entryway where the objection had come from. A subsequent cop defied the culprit, and the race started, with shots discharged.

Vazquez-Tether fought back by shooting the 18-year-old assailant in the head. As per specialists, the offender is still in difficult condition. Then again, Andres was shipped to Mount Sinai Clinical Center, where he died.

Andres Vasquez Tether’s suspect has been distinguished
According to ABC7Chicago, the suspect who shot Andres Vasquez Tether to death has been distinguished as 18-year-old Steven Montano hailing from Chicago. He has been accused of one crime count of discharging a weapon close to a school, one lawful offense count of homicide, one lawful offense count of unapproved utilization of a weapon, one misdeed count of straightforward attack, and one wrongdoing count of impeding detailing abusive behavior at home.

During a public interview on Walk 1, Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said that Andres Vasquez Tether was hitched and had a youthful little girl. He likewise as of late commended his five years with the police division.

Talking about his family, Brown said that Vasquez Tether has family situated in Colombia and a few different regions of the planet, and the division is attempting to tell them about what occurred:

“We generally request all from you kindly regard this family. So we’ll have more about this proposition later, yet we will go with the family’s speed in their solace level with sharing more about this official. This is a group of community workers, and as you can envision, they are taking this misfortune exceptionally hard.”

In one more articulation gave on Walk 2, the police office expressed that Andres Vasquez Rope died safeguarding Chicago and its kin:

The #FBI sends our condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso. He served with the Chicago Police Department (@Chicago_Police) in Illinois for five years.

— FBI (@FBI) March 2, 2023

In his GoFundMe page, began by Milena Vasquez to raise assets for his burial service and to help Tether’s family monetarily, Andres Vasquez Rope has been portrayed as one of the “fearless cops.” The post further peruses:

“Andres was a committed and valiant official who served our local area with honor and qualification. We are thankful for his administration and will constantly recall his penance.”
Specialists say this is the primary demise in the calling since Analyst Joseph Tripoli died in January 2022 from Coronavirus related issues. Up to this point, 557 police specialists have died while serving the state.