CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago man is being sentenced to 37 years in prison for shooting at a Chicago Police officer on the city’s south side in 2011.
Cook County Judge Dennis Porter handed the sentence to 23-year-old Marvin Fields late Thursday evening at the Leighton Criminal Courts Building in Chicago. Fields and co-defendant Ronald Jackson had been previously convicted of attempted murder for ambushing the officer in an alley at 120th and South State Street.
Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez’s office says Fields and Jackson fired several shots at the officer who was pursuing a suspect. Prosecutors say Fields and Jackson fired several shots at the officer, who dove behind a vehicle, returning fire. The officer broke his hand in the process.
Jackson is scheduled to be sentenced later this month.
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