{"id":313607,"date":"2026-08-04T18:03:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313607\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T18:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:03:02","slug":"ny-police-bigwig-was-getaway-driver-for-goon-son-in-gangland-shooting-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313607\/","title":{"rendered":"NY police bigwig was getaway driver for goon son in gangland shooting: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A high-ranking Westchester County police official drove the getaway car for her son in an apparent gangland shooting in The Bronx, police and sources said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Lackard, a deputy police commissioner with the Mount Vernon Police Department, was arrested at her home Tuesday morning, along with her son, Chase Lackard, 20, after the young man allegedly shot at a group of rivals near the Bronx Criminal Court on June 29 at 11:57 p.m, police said.<\/p>\n<p>He then rushed into her car before she drove off, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Lackard is a deputy commissioner at the Mt. Vernon Police Department. Mt. Vernon Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Chase Lackard allegedly shot at a group of rivals in the Bronx. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Nobody was injured in the shooting, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The pair were hit with attempted murder, attempted assault, criminal possession of a firearm, conspiracy and reckless endangerment charges.<\/p>\n<p>The mom raked in $138,219 with the police department last year, according to SeeThroughNY.<\/p>\n<p>The duo are no strangers to headlines.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Chase, a reputed member of the \u201cSlutty Gang,\u201d was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/23\/us-news\/gang-teen-shot-by-nypd-is-son-of-westchester-county-police-official\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shot by police after he allegedly wielded a gun during a dispute in Clason Point.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surveillance footage of the 2024 incident where Lackard was shot by police in The Bronx. NYPD<\/p>\n<p>A gun recovered after the 2024 police shooting involving Lackard. NYPD<\/p>\n<p>The Post reported his mom was a police official with the Mount Vernon Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Only a year earlier, her troubled son, then 17, was also <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/23\/teen-shot-on-bronx-bus-is-the-grangbanger-son-of-area-police-bigwig-sources\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shot in the chest on a Bx5 bus in Soundview<\/a> after fighting with three other youths, cops said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Lackard allegedly flashed gang signs at the boys and then asked for their gang affiliation before allegedly trying to drag one of them off the bus.<\/p>\n<p>The scene after Chase Lackard was shot inside of a Bx5 Citi Bus at Story Avenue and Metcalf Avenue in the Bronx, New York, on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023. Tomas E. Gaston for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>One of them then shot him in the chest.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested the mom and son early Tuesday morning at their Soundview home after arriving with a search warrant.<\/p>\n<p>They have yet to be arraigned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A high-ranking Westchester County police official drove the getaway car for her son in an apparent gangland shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,57,9,24,63,3980,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-313607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-shootings","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}