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EXCLUSIVE: After 13 seasons, original formed personnel LaRoyce Hawkins is leaving nan NBC constabulary procedural arsenic a bid regular, sources show Deadline. He will return to wrap up his characteristic Kevin Atwater’s storyline successful nan first 2 aliases 3 episodes of nan upcoming Season 14, we hear.
Chicago P.D. is presently casting a caller bid regular, a Black bull who is an supplier of chaos.
A rep for Wolf Entertainment, which produces nan One Chicago franchise pinch Universal Television, declined comment.
Cast changes aft each play of Chicago shows person go commonplace. Ahead of Season 13, Toya Turner near Chicago P.D. aft playing Officer Kiana Cook for 1 season. Arienne Mandi joined arsenic a caller bid regular, nabbing nan domiciled of Officer Eva Imani for Season 13. Hawkins joins chap P.D. original formed members Jesse Lee Soffer and Tracy Spiridakos who precocious exited nan bull drama.
Hawkins debuted arsenic Atwater successful nan Chicago P.D. bid premiere successful 2014 and has been a changeless fan-favorite crossed nan show’s thirteen seasons. As portion of Hank Voight’s (Jason Beghe) Intelligence Unit, Atwater served alongside chap elite officers that astir precocious included Adam Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger), Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati), Dante Torres (Benjamin Levy Aguilar), and nan antecedently mentioned Imani. As a handsome, honest, and loyal character, fans often discussed Atwater’s individual life, pinch nan hopes that he would find personification arsenic as awesome to settee down with.
And while he antecedently sewage close, things ne'er sewage excessively serious. That is until Season 13 Episode 5, erstwhile Atwater reconnects pinch Officer Tasha Fox (Karen Obilom), a platonic friend from his past now turned lover. However, nan imaginable emotion relationship is instantly challenged arsenic Tasha revealed that nighttime that she is moving to Miami for a caller occupation successful a week. Before Atwater wakes up nan adjacent morning, she’s gone. But she leaves down an orange, arsenic a motion to her caller location successful nan Sunshine State, pinch an unfastened invitation for Atwater to subordinate her.
As nan play continued, Atwater struggled pinch reaching retired to Tasha. He would commencement to constitute a matter saying that he misses her, but ne'er deed send. He pondered pinch what to opportunity and whether he should scope retired astatine all, but location was a propulsion betwixt them that was undeniable. Later successful Episode 11, Fox is backmost successful Chicago and astatine Atwater’s door. She’s pregnant pinch their first child. If Atwater ends up leaving nan Windy City for Miami, it would not beryllium a surprise.
