Man charged with firing gun on tracks where police were killed
Posted December 19, 2018 12:00 am
A 24-year-old man was charged Wednesday with firing a gun near railroad tracks on the far South Side where two Chicago police officers investigating the shots were struck and killed by a commuter train.
Edward R. Brown, of the 10100 block of South St. Lawrence, is charged with reckless discharge of a weapon and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
Officers Eduardo Marmolejo and Conrad Gary were killed Monday night when a South Shore commuter train truck them from the rear as they walked south on the tracks near 101st and Dauphin, looking for whomever was firing a gun.
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Eduardo Marmolejo
Conrad Gary
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