Robert Rialmo

A group of South and West side pastors prayed outside Chicago City Hall on Tuesday before asking Mayor Lori Lightfoot to keep disgraced former cop Robert Rialmo from ever being hired again by the city. “It’s outrageous that Robert Rialmo thinks it’s his birthright to work for the city of Chicago,” said David Cherry, president of the Leaders Network....

A group of South and West side pastors prayed outside Chicago City Hall on Tuesday before asking Mayor Lori Lightfoot to keep disgraced former cop Robert Rialmo from ever being hired again by the city. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

A former Chicago police officer who was fired for his role in the December 2015 fatal shooting of a 55-year-old bystander is suing to get his job back.

Chicago police officer Robert Rialmo has been fired for the 2015 on-duty shooting of Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones, according to the Chicago Police Board.

The Chicago Police Board began a hearing Monday to determine if Officer Robert Rialmo’s use of force in the 2015 shooting of Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones was justified.

The Chicago Police Board began a hearing Monday to determine if Officer Robert Rialmo’s use of force in the 2015 shooting of Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones was justified. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

Chicago’s police superintendent is recommending the firing of an officer who three years ago fatally shot a teenager and his neighbor while responding to a disturbance call.

A Chicago City Council committee has given the go-ahead for a $16 million payment to the family of a woman who was fatally shot when a police officer fired at a teenage neighbor of hers.

Three days after he was found not guilty on charges stemming from a bar fight, a Chicago police officer – who was also the subject of a lawsuit over the 2015 fatal shooting of a teen and grandmother – was involved in another altercation at a bar early Friday, police confirmed.

A Chicago police officer who was previously the subject of a lawsuit in the fatal shooting of a teenager and a grandmother has been found not guilty for charges resulting from a bar fight.

A Chicago police officer who was previously the subject of a lawsuit in the fatal shooting of a teenager and a grandmother has been found not guilty for charges resulting from a bar fight. Patrick Fazio reports.

A jury has found Chicago Police Officer Robert Rialmo liable on one count in the wrongful death suit filed in the shooting death of 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier.

Joseph Jackson, the strong, fearsome patriarch of the musical Jackson family, has died, according to a person close to the family. Regina Waldroup reports.

Speaking in a voice barely above a whisper, Janet Cooksey, Quintonio LeGrier’s biological mother, told the jury Monday she loves her son and misses him.

Speaking in a voice barely above a whisper, Janet Cooksey, Quintonio LeGrier’s biological mother, told the jury Monday she loves her son and misses him. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

Emmanuel Kapelsohn is an expert in police use of force. He testified Friday that officer Robert Rialmo, although he did not have non-lethal tools at his disposal, still did the right thing when he shot 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier in the vestibule of his fathers home on West Erie Street.

It was another emotional day in court as the mother of Quintonio LaGrier spoke in court Friday. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski has the latest on the trial. 

He was Quintonio LeGrier’s biological father, but Antonio LeGrier was just starting to get reacquainted with his son the night he was killed.

Chicago police Officer Robert Rialmo walked out of the Daley Center under heavy sheriff’s guard Tuesday, but his tumultuous days of testimony are not yet over.

A Chicago police officer facing charges for shooting and killing two people spent a second day on the witness stand Wednesday. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.