A former police chief of Indian Head Park, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, and current sergeant with the force, shot his son on Tuesday, Dec. 12, after an argument over a bottle of vodka, a Cook County court heard on Thursday, Dec. 14, reports Chicago Tribune.
The 22-year-old son sustained serious injuries after Raymond Leuser, the second-highest ranking member in the department, shot him in the stomach, shoulders, and thigh, after his son allegedly drank his vodka and replaced it with water.
The son is in the hospital in critical condition and is expected to undergo several more surgeries to remove bullets lodged in his body.
Police discovered two .45 caliber guns, one empty and one loaded, as well as spent shell casings in the home, located in the 6200 block of South Nashville Avenue in the city’s Clearing neighborhood, reports ABC7.
The Cook County judge called the prosecutors’ account of what happened “disturbing.”
