Tonight on NBC their drama Chicago PD returns with an all-new Wednesday, February 19, 2025, season 12 episode 13 called, “Street Jesus” and we have your Chicago PD recap below.
In tonight’s Chicago PD season, 12 episode 13 called, “Street Jesus,” as per the NBC synopsis,“A mounting street war threatens a community-center project that Atwater is trying to get off the ground.”
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In tonight’s Chicago PD, Detective Kevin Atwater was in a good place at the start of the night. He was in a great relationship. He was trying to help raise money for a new community center. Everything was fine until he heard gunshots. The gunshots sounded nearby. Atwater followed it and was the first to find the victim.
There was a whole crowd around them. They all claimed they didn’t see anything. They also all left when more cops started to arrive. They were not willing to give their name or phone numbers. They didn’t want to be a snitch in case the shooter comes after them or their family. And for some reason this case became personal for Atwater.
He was used to homicides. He was used to neighbors pretending to be deaf and blind, but this was the same community he was trying to help. He wanted to build the new community center there.
He wanted to give kids a place to go after school so that they didn’t wind up on the street. He had just left the fundraiser when this happened and it left him wondering if he will actually make any sort of difference in the neighborhood. Take the victim. Alonzo Freeze didn’t have a rap sheet. He was considered a perfect victim.
Alonzo had a stable job. He worked at a restaurant. He was getting promoted to assistant manager. He was heading to get the bus to work when he died and so his death seemed senseless. He was a great guy. The cops were the ones that were refusing to believe everyone. They thought Alonzo had to be doing something wrong to get killed.
They saw he came from that neighborhood and they wrote him off as a thug. They later found pink cocaine in the area where Alonzo was shot. The white cops instantly believed that Alonzo was a drug dealer. That he died because of drugs.
It was Atwater that pointed out that things didn’t add up. If Alonzo was killed over drugs, why did his killer leave the drugs behind? It was a hefty weight. It would have been a lot of money on the street. The killer had no reason to leave that behind. Not when they were willing to kill someone for it. The cops kept digging and they found the bullet casings.
There were two sets from two different people involved in a shootout. Alonzo was killed by accident. He wasn’t even near the shooters. They were at least fifty feet away when one bullet went stray.
Alonzo was the good kid everyone said he was. He died just for being in the wrong place. His killer and the other shooter were fighting over drugs. It was a turf war. A war that began to escalate into more deaths. The drugs they found were a brick of pink cocaine with a pink spider as its label. Atwater checked in with his criminal informants. He thought he got a lead on where the drugs originate. Only the person he was questioning was later in fact killed in his car. he was another victim of the turf war.
The police wanted to know who stood on the opposing sides of the war. They found a car leaving the scene after Alonzo’s death. Atwater recognized the man in the passenger seat as his old friend, Marcus “Hype” Daniels. His friend was helping with the community center.
He was there at the fundraiser. He does a lot of good for the community and he was also on probation. He didn’t want to go back to jail for being in the car. Atwater understood that. He didn’t tell his team he identified the passenger. He chose instead to go to Hype alone.
Atwater asked Hype about who he was with. Hype told him that it was Luther Ward driving. Now, he didn’t see anything nor did Luther tell him what happened.
He just knows that Luther stopped the car for something quick. Hype then hears gunshots. Luther ran back to the car and they peeled out of there. It was important that Hype not get connected to Luther or the evidence against Luther. Atwater went back to Voight. He claimed his criminal informant told him that their shooter was Luther.
Ruzek knew he was hiding something. He tried to warn Atwater against hiding something. It didn’t work out so well when Burgess and Torres did it. It was bound to backfire on Atwater too, but Atwater didn’t care about the consequences. He protected his friend. He worked with the cops to put together a sting.
They were going to shake down Luther. Demand he pay them off before more people die. The plan was put in motion. It seemed to be working at first until Luther called for backup. It led to a massive shootout.
Things were worse now. They needed Hype to make their case. Ruzek told Atwater to tell Vought everything or he was going to do it. So, Atwater had no choice.
He involved Hype. Hype wore a wire. He went to Luther’s kid’s birthday party. He told them that the cops have been asking questions. Hype said he didn’t tell them anything only Luther saw right through him. He lured Hype outside. He shot him and in full view of the cops. Luther got arrested. And sadly Hype died from his injuries.
The only silver lining in all of this was that no one was going to know Hype was an informant. Intelligence was going to protect his memory and Atwater hoped his friend’s death will bring the community together.
THE END!
