Reward In Murder of CPD Officer's Son
CHICAGO (CBS) – $10,000 is now being offered for information that leads to the person responsible for killing a 19-year-old Chicago Police Officer's son.
The initial reward was donated by St. Sabina's Father Michael Pfleger, for answers on the dead of Arshell "Trey" Dennis III. The additional money, bringing the reward to $10,000, was donated anonymously, CBS 2's Lauren Victory reports.
"Here we are again. Another young person snatched from us," said Father Michael Pfleger, St. Sabina Church. "I am begging. People know. Killers talk. Somebody turn in the person who did this."
Arshell 'Trey" Dennis III came home from college to surprise his sick mother.
On Sunday, Aug. 14 Dennis and a 20-year –old man were sitting outside his home in the 2900 block of West 82nd Street, a few minutes past midnight. A gunman walked up and starting shooting.
Dennis was shot in the chest and died at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park. The 20-year old was shot in the arm and chest and taken to Christ Medical Center in serious condition.
Police believe it was a case of mistaken identity.
Dennis' sister Rachel Woods said her family is devastated, WBBM's Lisa Fielding reports.
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"Im begging you if you just have one clue, or any sign or know somebody who knows this person who did this, do it for us, but do it for my brother Trey, just do it for him," Woods cried.
Rev. Michael Pfleger, some members of Saint Sabina and a representative of th family of Dennis met Friday at 82nd and Sacramento to pass out flyers and offer a 5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the shooter.
"If some family can get justice, it's like all of us getting justice," said volunteer Johneece Cobb, who lost her nephew, Edwin Cook, 19, to gun violence in January of 2015.
"We still don't have answers about who killed my nephew but if I can help this family, that gives me piece of mind."
Trey's father, Arshell "Chico" Dennis, is a long-time CPD officer and a friend of Chicago Superintendent Eddie Johnson.
The 19-year old was a graduate of Urban Prep Academy and a junior studying journalism at St. John's University in New York. Dennis though he escaped Chicago's violence. He was supposed to return to school on the same day he died.
