Chicago Police Department Officer Luis Huesca dreamed of starting a family of his own one day, but that was taken from him when he was shot to death last weekend.

“It feels like I’m still waiting for him to call me or just walk through the door,” said Lily O’Brien.

O’Brien said her baby brother was many things including a loving uncle, an avid traveler who enjoyed learning new cultures and cuisines, a man who spoke a handful of languages, and a person who never shied away from going the extra mile for friends, family, and strangers.

“He was so kind; he was so smart,” O’Brien said. “He was just a person you wanted to be around.”

...On Sunday, April 21, Huesca was returning to his Gage Park home after finishing a work shift, when he was shot multiple times. He was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

On Tuesday, Huesca’s killing was officially declared a line-of-duty death.

“We hold police accountable when they do something wrong, but when something happens to them, nobody cares. There’s no protests out there, there’s no politicians talking about making changes so that these types of things don’t happen,” said O’Brien. “There’s no protests, there’s nothing happening to say the violence in Chicago is insane, where if this can happen to an officer, what can happen to you as a regular person?”