Retired Chicago police officer Larry Neuman, the department's longest-serving bomb technician, was shot and killed Thursday near his West Garfield Park home.
“He spent his entire career safeguarding our city and spent his retirement as a reverend, speaking out against the violent crime that’s plaguing our neighborhoods,” Supt. Larry Snelling said Thursday during the Chicago Police Board’s meeting at police headquarters. “Please keep his family in your thoughts.”A transportation security explosives specialist, Neuman joined the TSA in 2010 and worked at O’Hare and Midway airports, said a spokesperson for the agency.
Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weekly“We are deeply saddened by his passing and extend our condolences to his family, friends and colleagues,” the spokesperson said. “He was the kindest man you knew. There wasn’t anything that Larry Neuman wouldn’t do for somebody. If you needed it and if he didn’t have it, he would go get it for you.”