Lawyers for three men charged in the decade-old murder of a Chicago police officer want to put former CPD Supt. Garry McCarthy on the witness stand to answer questions about the monthslong dragnet that led to the trio’s arrests.
A trove of 35,000 pages of emails recently turned over to attorneys for alleged gunman Alexander Villa show that CPD launched a multi-agency investigation in the months after Officer Clifton Lewis was killed in the robbery of an Austin store in December 2011.