LIEUTENANT EUGENE LASCO

ARTICLE AND ARTOWRK BY JONNY CASTRO

Lieutenant Eugene Lasco heard the screams for help from his colleague, Sergeant Padrick Schmitt. The Sergeant had just been violently attacked and was stabbed multiple times on February 21st by an inmate inside the Indiana State Prison. Without hesitation, Lt. Lasco heroically ran to the young sergeant’s aid. During the course of the unprovoked assault, that inmate also repeatedly stabbed Lt. Lasco before he was subdued by other officers and placed into custody. Both Sergeant Schmitt and Lieutenant Lasco were transported to the hospital in critical condition. Lt. Lasco succumbed to his injuries. The inmate responsible for the Lt. Lasco’s murder was serving a 130-year sentence in the maximum security prison for killing three people in 2002.

Lt. Lasco was a decorated correctional officer and had served the Indiana Department of Correction since 2009. Lt. Lasco was highly respected and was well-known among his colleagues as a true team leader. He was someone they could always count on; and he proved that again when he charged the armed suspect and gave his life to help save a fellow officer. Lieutenant Lasco was 57-years old. May he Rest In Peace.