CHICAGO – Veteran Chicago Police Officer Lowell Houser was found guilty Friday of second-degree murder in the 2017 off-duty shooting of 37-year-old Jose Nieves.
Cook County Judge William Gamboney’s ruling comes nearly two months after closing arguments in the three-day bench trial, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
In October, prosecutors said Houser shot the 37-year-old Nieves outside a Northwest Side apartment building where both Nieves and a female friend of Houser’s lived.
