Oak Park will hold a memorial ceremony at Village Hall to mark the one-year anniversary of the fatal shooting of Police Detective Allan Reddins in Downtown Oak Park.
Memorial attendees are encouraged to arrive at the Village Hall courtyard at 9:45 a.m. Nov. 29, with the ceremony beginning at 10:10 a.m., the exact moment when Reddins was pronounced dead from gunshot wounds last year, according to the village. Reddins was the first Oak Park police officer killed in the line of duty since 1938.
The ceremony will be the latest of several public memorials held for Reddins in Oak Park this year. His name was also added to monuments to fallen officers during ceremonies in Springfield and Washington, D.C. this year, according to the village.
A Chicago man, Jerrell Thomas, 37, is facing a life sentence for 56 felony counts, including first-degree murder, in connection with the fatal shooting. Reddins had attempted to stop Thomas on Lake Street in Downtown Oak Park after receiving a report that the man had brandished a firearm inside a nearby bank.
Thomas is awaiting trial at the Cook County Department of Corrections Division Eight facility. His next court date is set for Dec. 9, according to county records.
