A funeral was underway Thursday morning for Chicago Police Officer Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso, who was shot and killed while on duty last week.

Mourners gathered along a 6-mile procession route on the Southwest Side as a motorcade transported Vásquez Lasso’s body to St. Rita of Cascia Parish, 7740 S. Western Ave.

At his wake on Wednesday, people paid their respects at Blake-Lamb Funeral Home in Oak Lawn. They included Gov. J.B. Pritzker; Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her wife, Amy Eshleman, and Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza.

The funeral is at the same church where services were held for Chicago Officer Ella French after she was shot and killed in the line of duty in August of 2021. 

Vásquez Lasso, 32, was on the force for nearly 5 years. He was killed in a confrontation March 1 after responding to a domestic violence call in the 5200 block of South Spaulding Avenue.

Steven Montano, 18, ran from a house toward a playground adjacent to Sawyer Elementary School when authorities allege he suddenly turned and exchanged gunfire with Vásquez Lasso.

The officer was struck multiple times and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died. Montano was arrested and remains held without bail.

After the funeral, there will be a procession to a crematorium near Roosevelt Road and Des Plaines Avenue.