Fallen CPD officer honored at Gold Star Families Memorial wall

CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - The name of the Chicago Police officer killed in April has been added to the Gold Star Families Memorial on the Museum Campus.

Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca was gunned down during a carjacking while returning home from a shift on the Southwest Side. He was just days away from his 31st birthday.

Wednesday, Huesca's name joined those of other fallen officers on the memorial wall near Soldier Field.

Huesca's sister, Lily O'Brien, attended the ceremony.

“It’s knowing that he’s not here, but your heart and your soul [is] saying that  he’s traveling somewhere and he’s going to come back and seeing his name makes it feel that he’s not,” O’Brien tearfully said.

The suspect in Huesca's death, Xavier Tate Jr., has pleaded not guilty to first degree murder and other charges.

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