Guilt Depicted In The Man I Killed
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Chicago Tribune Apr 07, at PM At an emotional court hearing Wednesday, a South Side man pleaded guilty to carrying a gun he had happened to find in an alley — sparking a chain of events that ended with two Chicago police here fatally hit by a train.
Edward Brown, 26, pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful use of a weapon in exchange for a sentence of one year in prison.
With credit for good behavior, he could be released as early as this fall. Prosecutors said Brown found the gun in an alley on Dec. The sound of the pistol going off drew Officers Conrad Gary and Eduardo Marmolejo to the tracks to investigate, where they were struck by a passing commuter train.
Kenworthy paused to compose herself before explaining that Brown had no criminal background, cooperated extensively with the police investigation and never violated the terms of his pretrial release. The charge carries a penalty of one to three years in prison. Brown was escorted into custody shortly afterward.
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Brown, on his way home from work, found the fanny pack in the alley and took it, Varga said. He took out the gun and walked to the Metra station near rd Street, where he fired it three times: once in the http://pinsoftek.com/wp-content/custom/sociological-imagination-essay/drew-barrymore-essays.php, once down the tracks and once in the direction of a nearby elementary school, Varga said.
They Killd up a gravel embankment to the tracks, where they saw Brown heading south and tried to follow him. They stayed on the tracks used by southbound trains because they saw a northbound train approaching, police said at the time.
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They were unaware they were in the path of another train. An engineer on one of the trains saw a silhouette and heard a thumping and immediately hit his emergency brakes, a police report said. Meanwhile, other officers arrested Brown and took him to a Tbe station, unaware that Marmolejo and Gary had been fatally struck. After finding the pistol, Brown told detectives that he discarded the fanny pack on the roof of a garage near his residence.
He faced instead several counts of unlawful use of a weapon and reckless discharge, all but one of which were dropped as part of his plea agreement. Brown had thought it would be safer to go to the train tracks to fire the gun, the lawyer said. It was just the worst of luck.]
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