The whole world saw Van Dyke shoot Laquan McDonald. Now the lawyers of R. Kelly, Rod Blagojevich, and countless murder suspects consider what’s left to argue.
On a summer night in 2011, Chicago police officer Marco Proano shot 19-year-old Niko Husband outside a south-side dance party. The Independent Police Review Authority said the deadly shooting was justified. Then a civil jury took up the case.
The mother of five and the distraught teenager were shot and killed by police officer Robert Rialmo, according to a Reader analysis of internal police records and publicly available scanner audio.