Clifton P. Lewis, a 41-year-old Chicago Police Department officer, was shot and killed on December 29, 2011, while working an overtime security detail at a grocery store on North Austin Boulevard. Three male suspects entered the store about 8:30 PM; one of them fired multiple shots, and Lewis was rushed to Stroger Hospital where he died. The shooter fled with Officer Lewis’s service weapon and badge. Lewis had served eight years with the department and is survived by a daughter, his mother, and his fiancée.

The investigation produced arrests of three suspects. Two were charged soon after the killing; the third was arrested November 24, 2013, and charged with first-degree murder. Legal proceedings stretched over years and included convictions that were later overturned, dismissals of charges in June 2023, and repeated claims of police misconduct and prosecutorial error. Defense claims included withheld electronic data, a recanted key witness, and an allegedly coerced confession that an appeals court later found tainted by interrogation misconduct.

Does anyone have information about the robbery on North Austin Boulevard that night or about Officer Lewis’s duty detail at that store?