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Indian Head Park chief awards La Grange Park officers after August shooting investigation
Summary
Indian Head Park Police Chief Matthew Walsh presented La Grange Park officers with awards of excellence, saying La Grange Park officers’ work helped secure charges after an Aug. 28, 2024, shooting tied to a fraudulent Facebook Marketplace sale.
Indian Head Park Police Chief Matthew Walsh presented awards of excellence to members of the La Grange Park Police Department on Jan. 28, citing the department’s role in an Aug. 28, 2024, incident that left a victim shot during an attempted fraudulent sale arranged on Facebook Marketplace.
Walsh told the La Grange Park Board that two offenders arrived at the buyer-seller meeting and “both brandished handguns and the victim was shot in the upper right leg,” and that La Grange Park officers stopped the vehicle shortly afterward, recovered a handgun and assisted Indian Head Park investigators with lineups and body-worn camera downloads.
The presentation noted that, after ballistics tied the recovered firearm to the shooting, the Cook County state’s attorney approved charges of armed robbery and aggravated battery with a firearm. Walsh read an Indian Head Park Police Department award citation naming La Grange Park Chief Timothy Contoy and members of the La Grange Park Police Department for “professionalism and exemplary police work while assisting the Indian Head Park Police Department in securing charges of armed robbery and aggravated battery with a firearm for the incident that occurred on Aug. 28, 2024.”
Individual awards were read for Sergeant Timothy Griffin, Detective Nick Spurgesch (name appears with variant spellings in the transcript), and Officer Blake Patchett; Chief Walsh said Patchett made the traffic stop and recovered the weapon. Chief Contoy accepted the recognition on behalf of the department.
The board president thanked Chief Walsh on behalf of the board, staff and residents, calling the recognition humbling and praising first-responders’ work.
Details recorded in the meeting show La Grange Park assisted with lineup procedures, downloading of body-worn camera footage, and other technological support that Indian Head Park credited as material to securing charges. The meeting transcript does not contain court outcomes or subsequent case filings beyond the state’s attorney’s approval to charge.
For readers: the presentation and awards were ceremonial recognition of interagency assistance; the transcript attributes the investigation and charging decisions to Indian Head Park investigators and the Cook County state’s attorney.
