Jennifer Lackard, the Mount Vernon police department’s Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety, was arrested for attempted murder Tuesday for being the getaway driver when her gangbanger son opened fire near a Bronx courthouse, police sources said Tuesday.
Lackard, 49, and her son, Chase Lackard, 20, were arrested when police at 5:30 a.m. showed up with an arrest warrant at their home in the Soundview section of the Bronx, police said.
They were both charged with attempted murder, attempted assault, gun possession, conspiracy and reckless endangerment, police said.
NYPD officers and detectives investigate after Chase Lackard was shot and wounded by police on White Plains Road near Lafayette Ave. in the Bronx on Nov. 22, 2024. (Barry Williams/ New York Daily News)
Chase allegedly fired at a group behind the Bronx Hall of Justice near E. 162nd St. and Grand Ave. just before noon June 29, then jumped in a car driven by his mother, police said. No one was struck.
The incident was linked to gang tensions, police said.
In a still from video, two perpetrators, one of whom pulls a gun, as cops in unmarked black car (lower left) enter a parking lot behind the Stevenson Common at 755 White Plains Road in the Bronx on Nov. 22, 2024. (NYPD)
In November 2024, the son, who authorities say is a member of the “Slutty Gang,” was shot in Soundview by NYPD cops. Officers responding to a clash at the Stevenson Commons residential tower on White Plains Road near Lafayette Ave. saw him waving a gun, police said at the time.
Lackard was shot in the leg by police after he allegedly pointed his 9 mm. pistol at officers, police said.
The Glock recovered after cops shot Chase Lackard, who pulled a gun on NYPD officers behind the Stevenson Common at 755 White Plains Road in the Bronx on Nov. 22, 2024. (NYPD)
Three months earlier, Chase was busted for carrying a loaded gun and was granted supervised release, sources said.