Ricardo Velasco-Morales

Ricky
Ricardo Morales, Ricky Morales
Ricardo Velasco, Ricky Velasco
Hun, Honey, Bub, Bubbas, My Sweet Boy, Baby (by Katie)
Little Man, Buddy (by Antonio, Hank and Jay)
Sweetheart (by Erin; Hailey and Kim)
Little Homie (by Kevin)
Jaime Morales (Adopted Great-Grandfather)
Luisa Morales (Adopted Great-Grandmother)
Stephanie Morales (Adopted Grandmother)
Alex Morales (Adopted Grandfather)
Javier Morales (Adopted Uncle)
Mateo Morales (Adopted Uncle)
Rafael Morales (Adopted Uncle)
Katie Morales (Adoptive Mother)
Angelica Velasco † (Biological Mother)
Johnny Velasco † (Biological Father)
Hank Voight (Family Friend)
Antonio Dawson (Family Friend)
Hailey Upton (Family Friend)
Adam Ruzek (Family Friend)
Kim Burgess (Family Friend)
Kevin Atwater (Family Friend)
Erin Lindsay (Family Friend)
Gabriela Dawson (Family Friend)
Sylvie Brett (Family Friend)
Alvin Olinsky † (Family Friend)
Connor Rhodes (Family Friend)
Will Halstead (Family Friend)
Ethan Choi (Family Friend)
Maggie Lockwood (Family Friend)
April Sexton (Family Friend)
Natalie Manning (Family Friend)
Matthew Casey (Family Friend)
Kelly Severide (Family Friend)
Stella Kidd (Family Friend)

> "A lot of times people don’t understand. How could I do the job I do as a single parent? How could I have a job that might have me die on duty with no partner to take care of a son? I mean, I got custody of Ricky in my early twenties, how could I be so young with no partner and a child? It’s just better if people don’t know."
>
> -Katie to Jay about why she kept his existence a secret from the team

**Ricardo “Ricky” Velasco-Morales** is a recurring character on *Chicago PD*. He is the adoptive son of Detective Katie Morales of Sergeant Hank Voight's CPD Intelligence Unit.

## Background

He was born Ricardo Velasco in 2010 (going off his age in 2016) to Katie Morales’s army partner, Angelica "Angie" Velasco and her husband Johnny.

His mother, Angie, went back to Afghanistan soon after he was born and died a month shy of her deployment ending, leaving her husband, Johnny to raise him.

A year or so after, Katie Morales starts hanging around and taking care of him while his dad went to group therapy. For a while things were going well until one day his dad took his own life, the suicide affecting Katie for a while.

In his parents' will, it was said that they both wanted Katie Morales to take care of him so eventually he was taken in by Katie and she has raised him ever since.

## Notes and Trivia

* The person who seems to take care of him the most other than his mother is his uncle Javi.
* He spends most of his time at Firehouse 51
* According to Katie, no one was really keen on her taking custody of Ricky at 23
	+ It seems people have come around since everyone seems to have a good relationship with the boy
* Ever since the departure of Connor Rhodes, Ricky sassingly refers to Crockett Marcel as "Not Uncle Connor", implying that he doesn't like the fact that Dr. Rhodes left.
* Almost every year for career day, he asks one of the firefighters at Firehouse 51 to come
	+ Jay asked Katie if she was offended by this but she just told him that it made sense because of how much time he spends at the Firehouse
* His Grandfather, has called him many spanish nicknames which include:
	+ *Mijo* (fusion of *mi hijo*, “my son”)
	+ *Muchacho* ("a young man")
	+ *Chiquito* ("little one")
	+ *Chamaco* ("kid")
	+ *Mi Nieto* ("my grandson")