 Antwon Carter (left) is charged with the 2010 killing of Chicago Police Officer Michael Bailey (right). (July 26, 2011) |
A 24-year-old man was charged today with gunning down an off-dutyChicago police officer who was about to retire after 20 years on the force, authorities said.
Officer Michael Bailey was cleaning his new Buick – a retirement gift to himself – outside his South Side home in July 2010 when he was killed in an exchange of gunfire with a would-be robber, police said. He was still in uniform after just working an overnight shift.
The suspect, Antwon Carter, was charged late today with first-degree murder and attempted armed robbery, according to Sally Daly, spokeswoman for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.
The charges come about three weeks afterChicago police questioned Carter about the veteran officer’s murder -- a development first reported by the Tribune.
Carter was on parole for aggravated battery to another police officer when he allegedly shot Bailey to death during the attempted robbery, according to court records. Carter was arrested two months after Bailey’s murder on unrelated carjacking and weapons charges and has remained in state prison since then for violating his parole, the records show.
Bailey, 62, had finished his shift guarding the home of then-Chicago Mayor Richard Daley when he was shot at about 6 a.m. on Sunday, July 18, 2010, in front of his Park Manor neighborhood home.
The break in the case came after Carter talked about killing the officer to several other witnesses, law enforcement sources said. Investigators also discovered letters handwritten by Carter implicating himself in the murder, the sources said.
Bailey, who was assigned to the Central Police District, was about a month from turning 63, the department’s mandatory retirement age, when he was killed.
Officer Michael Bailey was cleaning his new Buick – a retirement gift to himself – outside his South Side home in July 2010 when he was killed in an exchange of gunfire with a would-be robber, police said. He was still in uniform after just working an overnight shift.
The suspect, Antwon Carter, was charged late today with first-degree murder and attempted armed robbery, according to Sally Daly, spokeswoman for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.
The charges come about three weeks afterChicago police questioned Carter about the veteran officer’s murder -- a development first reported by the Tribune.
Carter was on parole for aggravated battery to another police officer when he allegedly shot Bailey to death during the attempted robbery, according to court records. Carter was arrested two months after Bailey’s murder on unrelated carjacking and weapons charges and has remained in state prison since then for violating his parole, the records show.
Bailey, 62, had finished his shift guarding the home of then-Chicago Mayor Richard Daley when he was shot at about 6 a.m. on Sunday, July 18, 2010, in front of his Park Manor neighborhood home.
The break in the case came after Carter talked about killing the officer to several other witnesses, law enforcement sources said. Investigators also discovered letters handwritten by Carter implicating himself in the murder, the sources said.
Bailey, who was assigned to the Central Police District, was about a month from turning 63, the department’s mandatory retirement age, when he was killed.
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