For more than a decade, Tamara Latrice Tucker attended nearly every hearing involving the three men charged in the murder of her fiancé, Chicago Police Officer Clifton Lewis.
At a sentencing hearing for one of them, Tucker testified that Lewis had proposed to her on a Christmas morning after a yearslong courtship. Four days later, he was gunned down in a robbery at a convenience store where he worked security.
"It was just like, wow, how could this day get any worse?" Thomas, 30, said Friday. "It was actually a smack in the face to see, on the day of her visitation, that those charges were dropped." The tragedy had moved her to return to school so she could become a juvenile probation officer. In March, even as she underwent chemotherapy, Tucker had led a group of juvenile defendants on a tour of Black colleges across the South, Thomas said.
"She was very conscious of that, especially after what happened with Cliff," Tucker said. "It just pushed her to help more. She always believed in second chances."& M Quick Foods and opened fire on the off-duty officer. A third man, Alexander Villa, was arrested nearly two years later. Colon and Villa were convicted in separate trials, but Colon's guilty verdict was overturned when a judge ruled detectives had obtained his confession after Colon repeatedly asked for a lawyer.
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