Thursday, August 14, 2008

$10,000 reward announced in slaying of veteran Chicago cop

$10,000 reward announced in slaying of veteran Chicago cop
By Robert Mitchum, Azam Ahmed and David Heinzmann | Chicago Tribune staff reporters
5:13 PM CDT, August 14, 2008

A $10,000 reward was announced Thursday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer of veteran Chicago Police Officer Robert Soto.

The officer was fatally shot Wednesday morning along with a female passenger in his sport-utility vehicle on Chicago's West Side during what police called an apparent botched robbery.

The shooting woke up residents on the 3000 block of Franklin Boulevard. When police arrived they found Kathryn Romberg, 45, and Soto, 49, bleeding from gunshot wounds. Soto was pronounced dead in Mt. Sinai Hospital at 3:05 a.m. Thursday.

Soto, a 23-year veteran of the Police Department, most recently worked on the day shift as a bomb and arson detective, said one of his supervisors, Sgt. Jim Egan.
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