Englewood mass shooting: Chicago cop owned home where four were killed; stripped of police powers pending inv… - Chicago Sun-Times

The lawsuit, which demanded that Badillo to add fencing and security cameras, wasn’t served for more than a year because the city said it could not reach Badillo — who works for the city.

A Chicago police officer has been stripped of his police powers while the police department investigates whether he allowed dangerous living conditions to fester in a home he owns that was the site of a mass shooting in Englewood earlier this week, a CPD spokesman said Friday.

But the lawsuit stalled because, for more than a year, the city could not reach Badillo, who doesn’t live in the home.

When a mass shooting erupted inside the house early Tuesday, the city had still not made contact with Badillo.

It remains unclear if any of the victims from the mass shooting were living in the home when the lawsuits were originally filed.

The shooting occurred early Tuesday; police say someone broke into the home some time before 5:40 a.m.

Killed were Ratanya Aryiel Rogers, 28, mother of a young boy; Denice Mathis, 32, a mother of four boys; Shermetria Williams, 19, the mother of a 2-year-old girl; and Blake Lee, 34, who lived in the home and did odd jobs in the neighborhood.

Relatives said Lee lived at the home where he did odd jobs in the neighborhood.