A prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for two people charged with shooting dead a veteran Illinois police officer with her own weapon as she pleaded for her life on the ground and critically wounding her partner, who is now fighting for his life.
Although Illinois isn’t a death penalty state, the U.S. Attorney General can authorize the filing of a petition to seek out the punishment in certain federal murder cases.
In court on Monday, Kankakee County State’s Attorney Jim Rowe painted the picture of a cold-blooded killing that deserved that designation during a bond hearing for Xandria Harris, 26, of Bradley in the county’s Circuit Court.
She and Darius Sullivan of Bourbonnais 25, are charged with fatally shooting Bradley police Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic, 49, and critically wounding her partner, Officer Tyler Bailey, 27, late Wednesday. Bailey is hospitalized at a Chicago-area hospital.
‘At the time Sullivan fired the fatal shots into Sgt. Rittmanic, Sgt. Rittmanic was pleading with them to just leave, “you don’t have to do this, please just go, please don’t please don’t.” She was desperately pleading for her life,’ Rowe said, according to court documents.
‘I will be submitting an official request to the U.S. Attorney General for the Central District of Illinois and to the U.S. Attorney General to review the first degree murder case pending against Darius Sullivan and Xandria Harris for federal murder charges, and pursue a federal sentence of death against both defendants,’ Rowe said.
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My heart goes out to …
Tony Timpa, Daniel Shaver, Kelly Thomas, Lavoy Finicum…etc
rest in piss, stasi agent.
That is actually a great way to reply to these sad sob stories of a cop getting whacked in the “Line of Dury”
With the names of so many they have murdered …!!
I agree
Best way to remind everyone who the real problem is
Pigs Other murder victims
Vicki Weaver
Samual Weaver and his dog Striker
And everyone they murdered in the Dravidian compound
The list is long
And least we forget our 4 legged friends that are constantly murdered with zero recourse on these evil cowards
State sanctioned Terrorism
Yeah Martist, Norm and EOTS!! That’s the template!!!
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I have zero sympathy for the boot licking “rank and file” of as mentioned above state sponsored terrorism.