The Chicago cop who shot and killed Anthony Alvarez during a foot chase last year was suspended Thursday for 20 days after Supt. David Brown successfully beat back a recommendation from the city’s police oversight agency that sought his dismissal.
Officer Evan Solano fired five shots as he pursued Alvarez through the Portage Park neighborhood early on March 31, 2021, striking the 22-year-old in the back and thigh after he ignored orders to drop a handgun and appeared to turn his body. Alvarez’s death came just two days after 13-year-old Adam Toledo was fatally shot by Officer Eric Stillman during another foot chase in Little Village.
