AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Mount Vernon deputy police commissioner allegedly drove getaway car after son's Bronx gang shooting
A 20-year-old reputed gang member allegedly opened fire on a rival just minutes after leaving a Bronx courthouse, and prosecutors say his mother, a deputy police commissioner, and his ex-con father drove him away from the scene. Chase Lackard had been inside the Bronx Criminal Court on a 2024 gun possession charge. Roughly twenty minutes […] The post Mount Vernon deputy police commissioner allegedly drove getaway car after son's Bronx gang shooting appeared first on American Almanac .
A 20-year-old reputed gang member allegedly opened fire on a rival just minutes after leaving a Bronx courthouse, and prosecutors say his mother, a deputy police commissioner, and his ex-con father drove him away from the scene. Chase Lackard had been inside the Bronx Criminal Court on a 2024 gun possession charge. Roughly twenty minutes after that appearance, he allegedly carried out a drive-by shooting targeting a rival on June 29, the New York Post reported . His mother, 49-year-old Jennifer Lackard, then the Mount Vernon Deputy Police Commissioner, and his father, James Lackard, a convicted heroin dealer who served 10 years in federal prison, allegedly waited outside and served as getaway drivers. A Bronx grand jury indicted all…Open