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Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said it is horrifying to
bookend weeks with press conferences about murder victims.
“Last week it was a child. Today it’s an elder. And the common
thread is other children taking their lives,” Foxx said.
A different 16-year-old was charged with the murder of
7-year-old Jai’Mani Rivera last week.
According to court documents, teen suspects had committed
electronic-monitoring violations before the murders of both
Rivera and Neuman.
The suspect in Neuman’s death had been on home confinement.
Chicago Police Chief of Detectives Antoinette Ursitti said that
community assistance was instrumental in the investigation of
Neuman’s murder.
“The evidence they provided helped detectives quickly secure
charges against the 16-year-old offender,” Ursitti said.
Larry Neuman served as a Chicago Police Department Explosives
Technician and was also a U.S. Marine veteran.
Police Superintendent Larry Snelling said that before Neuman was
shot, he pushed a lawn-care worker to safety when two offenders
displayed guns.
“Larry Neuman did what he’s always done, acted heroically, put
his own life on the line to try to save the life of someone
else,” Snelling said.
Snelling said Neuman worked as a pastor to bring peace to his
neighborhood and to show young people there was a better way.
“In a brazen and senseless act of violence. Larry’s life was
taken from him by the very people he committed his life to
helping,” Snelling said.
According to Snelling, Neuman served with honor.
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