Men held without bail in fatal shooting of officer
Source: Chicago Tribune
Police said they didn't have to go far to find the two men who wound up being charged with gunning down a Cook County sheriff's investigator outside a holiday party at a west suburban VFW hall: Officers followed shoe prints in the snow to a home just 400 feet away, prosecutors said in court Monday.
Inside were Brandon Jackson and Gage Thornton, both 22, according to authorities. Prosecutors said the men fled to Jackson's Bellwood home after an attempted robbery of the shooting victim's daughter and her boyfriend went awry.
Found in the home were items of clothing, including a black ski mask, seen in surveillance video of the shooting Friday, authorities said. Also recovered was a box filled with ammunition for the .44-caliber handgun prosecutors say was used to kill Sheriff's Officer Cuauhtemoc Estrada, 50, according to court documents.
Jackson and Thornton, charged with first-degree murder and attempted armed robbery, were ordered held without bail Monday by Circuit Judge Ramon Ocasio. Both men have criminal records. Jackson's includes three residential burglary convictions, the most recent in 2009. Thornton was convicted of theft in 2010 in Wisconsin.
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Cuauhtemoc Estrada's children will have their first Christmas without their father. And the world would be a better place without these two POS.
