{"id":313720,"date":"2026-08-04T20:24:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T20:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313720\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T20:24:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T20:24:57","slug":"news-12-westchester-mount-vernon-police-official-fired-after-arrest-in-bronx-shooting-case-involving-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313720\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Westchester | Mount Vernon Police Official Fired After Arrest In Bronx Shooting Case Involving Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A top official with the Mount Vernon Police Department was terminated after being arrested and charged in connection with a shooting investigation in the Bronx involving her son, according to city officials.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The City of Mount Vernon announced that Jennifer Lackard, the department&#8217;s deputy commissioner of wellness, was fired effective immediately following her arrest Tuesday morning. She and her son, Chase Lackard, were taken into custody in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say 20-year-old Chase Lackard opened fire into a group of people on June 29 near East 162nd Street and Grand Avenue in the Bronx. No one was injured. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 previously reported Chase Lackard arrest and charges in a <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/westchester.news12.com\/sources-son-of-mount-vernon-deputy-police-commissioner-shot-by-nypd-in-the-bronx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police-involved shooting in Soundview <\/a>on Nov. 22, 2024. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say Jennifer Lackard is accused of acting as the getaway driver, alleging she was behind the wheel and drove away from the scene after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Both mother and son face multiple charges, including attempted murder, attempted assault, criminal possession of a firearm, conspiracy and reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">This arrest marks the fifth time this year that a member of the Mount Vernon Police Department has been arrested. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">In a statement, city officials said the allegations against Jennifer Lackard are unrelated to her duties with the Mount Vernon Police Department. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A top official with the Mount Vernon Police Department was terminated after being arrested and charged in connection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-313720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313720","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=313720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}