CHICAGO — A decide on Friday sentenced a person to twenty years for taking pictures an off-duty Chicago police officer throughout a theft try in June 2020. He obtained one other 15 years, to be served consecutively, for a separate carjacking case.
Chrishawn Thomas, 23, was on digital monitoring for a pending theft case when he and an confederate started following the off-duty officer after he left work early on June 9, 2020.
Prosecutors stated that after the officer parked and exited his automotive within the 3900 block of South Artesian, Thomas jumped out of the second automobile, holding a gun in his hand. He allegedly pointed the gun on the officer’s head from solely a few ft away. Officers stated the cop, performing in self-defense, pulled his personal gun and exchanged gunfire with Thomas.
Officers stated Thomas was shot in each legs, and the officer was shot close to the knee.
Thomas confirmed up at a hospital for remedy a short while later. Investigators linked him to the taking pictures by a gun and blood they discovered on the scene, prosecutors stated.
In line with court docket data, Thomas pleaded responsible on Friday to aggravated battery by discharging a firearm in trade for the 20-year sentence from Choose Diana Kenworthy. He should serve 85% of the 20 years.
He additionally pleaded responsible to aggravated vehicular hijacking with a firearm for a Could 30, 2020, carjacking within the 3100 block of South Wallace. Kenworthy gave him an extra 15 years, to be served at 50%, for that crime. Prosecutors didn’t cost him with the hijacking till after he was in custody for the taking pictures, nevertheless, he was on digital monitoring on the time of the carjacking, too.
The theft case that he was on digital monitoring for and a separate cost of possessing a weapon in a penal establishment have been dropped by prosecutors.
After it’s all stated and completed, with credit already earned and anticipated, Thomas ought to anticipate to be paroled slightly below 20 years from now.
