Indiana man accused of supplying gun that killed Chicago cop

CHICAGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors Monday charged a Hammond, Indiana, antheral with purchasing and past amerciable supplying the semi-automatic handgun utilized successful a weekend shooting successful Chicago that near 1 constabulary serviceman dormant and different severely wounded.

Jamel Danzy, 29, is accused of buying the limb from a licence weapon trader successful Hammond, Indiana, successful March and past providing it to an Illinois nonmigratory who Danzy knew could neither bargain nor person guns due to the fact that of a felony conviction.

The idiosyncratic who received it was successful a conveyance from which idiosyncratic changeable the officers Saturday nighttime during a postulation halt and that the aforesaid weapon was recovered from the idiosyncratic by arresting officers, a connection from the U.S. attorney’s bureau successful Chicago said.

Two different radical were besides successful the vehicle, though nary charges were instantly announced. Monday’s connection from prosecutors besides didn’t accidental who fired the weapon astatine the officers.

• 2 charged aft Chicago constabulary serviceman fatally shot, different wounded during postulation stop

Ella French, 29, was fatally changeable Saturday nighttime successful an speech of gunfire during a postulation halt connected the city’s South Side. Her decease was the archetypal fatal shooting of a Chicago serviceman successful the enactment of work since 2018 and the archetypal pistillate serviceman fatally changeable connected the occupation successful 33 years. The Chicago Police Department’s Facebook leafage said Sunday adjacent that French’s wounded spouse remained successful “hospital warring for his life.”

Danzy, of Hammond, made an archetypal quality Monday day successful U.S. District Court successful Chicago connected conspiracy to interruption national firearm laws, including knowingly transferring a firearm to an out-of-state nonmigratory and knowingly disposing of a firearm to a convicted felon. The conspiracy condemnation carries a maximum five-year situation sentence.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey T. Gilbert ordered Danzy beryllium held astatine slightest until a Wednesday detention hearing.

Chicago has for years sought to stem the inflow of guns that has helped fueled persistently precocious homicide rates successful the city, particularly from nearby states similar Indiana, wherever guns rules aren’t arsenic stringent.

The U.S. attorney’s bureau highlighted however the the Department of Justice has made stemming amerciable weapon trafficking a precocious priority.

“Straw purchasers and firearm traffickers alteration unit with deadly consequences,” U.S. Attorney John Lausch said successful a statement.

Officers had stopped a conveyance Saturday with 2 men and a pistillate wrong conscionable aft 9 p.m., erstwhile a antheral rider opened fire, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said Sunday. Officers returned fire, striking the rider who appeared to occurrence astatine them, said Brown.

The superintendent said it was excessively soon to accidental wherefore the conveyance was stopped and what mightiness person happened conscionable earlier the shooting began. He said disposable grounds included constabulary assemblage camera footage.

The past Chicago serviceman changeable to decease successful the enactment of work was 28-year-old Samuel Jimenez, who was killed aft responding to a shooting astatine a infirmary connected Nov. 19, 2018.

Two officers, Conrad Gary and Eduardo Marmolejo, died erstwhile they were struck by a bid portion pursuing a fishy connected Dec. 17, 2018. The section besides considers the COVID-19 deaths of 4 officers past twelvemonth line-of-duty deaths.

The past pistillate serviceman changeable to decease successful the enactment of work was Irma Ruiz, who was changeable wrong an simple schoolhouse successful 1988.