Chicago buyback gun turns up at scene of police involved shooting years later

By Brian Seay

The .38 caliber Smith & Wesson revolver turned in by William Stewart Boyd in 2004, and later found next to a gang member in Cicero. (Photo: Court files)
The Chicago Police Department has opened an internal affairs investigation after a gun handed in during a turn-in event in 2004 wound up lying next to a Latin Counts gang member eight years later in the suburbs after he was shot dead by a cop.
William Stewart Boyd, a Cook County judge, turned in his late father’s .38 caliber Smith & Wesson revolver, serial number J515268, to a South Side church in exchange for a $100 Visa card, according to the Chicago Sun Times. The firearms acquired in the buyback program are supposed to be destroyed, but this one wasn’t.
“I’m doing the right thing,” said Boyd, “and, in the process, someone didn’t do what they were supposed to do. That calls into question the process. What’s happening after you turn these weapons in?”
The gun turned up next to the body of 22-year-old Cesar A. Munive, a gang member whose rap sheet included battery, sexual abuse of a minor and unlawful use of a weapon. He was shot dead on July 5, 2012 by Cicero

Source: Guns.com