The brutality of the 2011 murder of off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis prompted rumors inside the department that the killing was a “hit”— and that the target was one of Lewis’ fellow officers, former CPD Supt. Garry McCarthy said during a court hearing Tuesday.
McCarthy, who took the stand in a hearing in the troubled prosecutions of the three men charged with Lewis’ slaying, had referenced the rumors in a 2012 email sent to the entire department the day that charges were filed against alleged gunman Tyrone Clay and alleged lookout Edgardo Colon.
