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The Latest: Bond $1.5M for Chicago officer in shooting death

FILE - This Nov. 24, 2015 file photo released by the Cook County Sheriff's Office shows Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke, who was charged with first degree murder after a squad car video caught him fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times. Van Dyke is scheduled to return to court Monday, Nov. 30, 2015, to learn whether he'll be offered bond. (Cook County Sheriff's Office via AP)
FILE - This Nov. 24, 2015 file photo released by the Cook County Sheriff's Office shows Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke, who was charged with first degree murder after a squad car video caught him fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times. Van Dyke is scheduled to return to court Monday, Nov. 30, 2015, to learn whether he'll be offered bond. (Cook County Sheriff's Office via AP) FILE - This Nov. 24, 2015 file photo released by the Cook County Sheriff's Office shows Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke, who was charged with first degree murder after a squad car video caught him fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times. Van Dyke is scheduled to return to court Monday, Nov. 30, 2015, to learn whether he'll be offered bond. (Cook County Sheriff's Office via AP)

CHICAGO (AP) – The latest on the aftermath of the shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago police officer (all times local):

1:05 p.m.

A Cook County judge has set bond at $1.5 million for a white Chicago police officer charged with murder after a squad car video caught him shooting a black teenager 16 times.

A judge set the bond Monday afternoon for Officer Jason Van Dyke.

Van Dyke has been locked up since Nov. 24, when prosecutors charged him with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.