WITH A TIMELINE OF EVENTS. PARIS DON AND SCOTT SOLVING THIS CASE TOOK A COORDINATED EFFORT BY MULTIPLE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES THAT IDENTIFIED TATE FIRST VIA SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE IN GAGE PARK IN THE CITY AND THEN AS HE WENT TO IOWA AND THEN BACK TO ILLINOIS, WHERE HE WAS ARRESTED ON WEDNESDAY EVENING IN GLENDALE HEIGHTS. TATE, IN A MATTER OF SECONDS, TOOK THE LIFE OF SOMEONE WHO WAS TRYING TO MAKE OUR CITY BETTER AND SAFER THROUGH KINDNESS AND COMPASSION. APRIL 21ST. POLICE DETECTIVES USED SURVEILLANCE VIDEO TO TRACE THE SUSPECT TO A NEARBY CONVENIENCE STORE AND IDENTIFY HIM AFTER HE USES A RELATIVE'S CREDIT CARD TO MAKE A PURCHASE. DURING THE INVESTIGATION, OUR PARTNERS AT THE ATF AND MEMBERS OF THE CRIME GUN INTELLIGENCE CENTER IMMEDIATELY BEGAN PROCESSING BALLISTIC EVIDENCE RECOVERED FROM THE SHOOTING SCENE. TATE'S DNA WAS PRESENT ON THIS EVIDENCE. ADDITIONALLY TATE'S FINGERPRINTS WERE DISCOVERED ON A FENCE. HE WAS SEEN ON VIDEO JUMPING OVER FOLLOWING THE MURDER. WHAT FOLLOWS IS A TEN DAY MANHUNT THAT LED POLICE TO AN APARTMENT IN GLENDALE HEIGHTS, WHERE THEY USED HANDCUFFS IN TATE'S ARREST THIS PAST WEEK HAS BEEN UNIMAGINABLE FOR THE FAMILY OF OFFICER HUESCA, AN EMOTIONAL CPD SUPERINTENDENT LARRY SNELLING SAYS THE ARREST IS SMALL COMFORT FOR HUESCA'S GRIEVING FAMILY, REMOVING THIS INDIVIDUAL FROM THE STREET DOES NOT ONLY BRING JUSTICE TO THE FAMILY. THE HUESCA FAMILY, IT ALSO ENSURES THE PUBLIC THAT HE WILL NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO COMMIT THE SAME OFFENSE ON ANYONE ELSE. TATE FACES THREE FELONIES MURDER, AGGRAVATED VEHICULAR HIJACKING AND POSSESSION OF A STOLEN WEAPON. AND COOK COUNTY PROSECUTORS ALLEGE THAT TATE SHOT HUESCA TEN TIMES. NOW, IN JUST A BIT, WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON, WHO OPENS UP FOR THE FIRST TIME ABOUT WHY HE DID NOT ATTEND
