Thor Odin Soderberg, a 43-year-old Chicago Police Department officer assigned to the Bureau of Professional Standards, was shot and killed on July 7, 2010, in Chicago. He had served nearly 11 years and was taking part in a weeklong operation called Operation Protect Youth at the Targeted Response Unit facility on South Racine Avenue. After finishing his shift, Soderberg was changing out of his uniform in the facility parking lot around 3:45 p.m. when 24-year-old Bryant Brewer approached him. A struggle occurred, Brewer disarmed Soderberg and fatally shot him, then attempted to use the officer’s gun to commit an armed robbery of a passerby.

Officers inside the facility heard the shots and returned fire, wounding Brewer; Soderberg was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:25 p.m. Brewer was arrested and charged in connection with the killing and the subsequent shootings. Did anyone have contact with Officer Soderberg at the Targeted Response Unit that afternoon or see suspicious activity in that parking lot?