“‘I don’t know which call is going to be my last,’” Vásquez Lasso told him, he said. “‘Everyone has guns, and they’re always shooting.’”
A funeral service will be held today for slain Chicago Police Officer Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso.Practically everyone in the group of friends had a nickname. Felipe was Piña. Brayan was El Negro. And Mauricio was Flaco , because of his lanky figure.
Hearing the news of his friend’s murder was like "getting hit in the head," Liloy said. He began to cry. His wife asked what had happened, but it was awhile before he could speak.Liloy and Vásquez Lasso, who was a year younger, grew up on the same block. They studied together, worked the same jobs. Once, they even dated twins. They defended each other against school bullies and muggings on the streets of Cali, Colombia’s third-largest city.
He was just one guy, though, Liloy recalled, and Vásquez Lasso raised his eyebrows at his friend, as if to say, "Come on, we can take him." "He always had that dream of being a police officer, even when he was in Colombia," Liloy said. The cousin, Liloy said, "didn’t even have to convince him with words. He saw what he was like, protecting the community, and he wanted to do it."
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