Oct. 28--Attempted murder charges have been filed in the shooting of an off-duty Cook County correctional officer over the weekend in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side, authorities said.
James Tillman, 21, of the 1200 block of West Hastings Street, was charged with one count of first-degree attempted murder, one felony count of aggravated battery and discharge of a firearm and one felony count of attempted aggravated vehicular hijacking, according to Police News Affairs.
Tillman was ordered held without bail Monday, according to Cook County Jail records.
Tillman shot the 34-year-old officer in the hand during a carjacking around 3:40 a.m. Sunday in the 7900 block of South Paulina Street, police said. according to the release.
"It appears the officer is going to be OK," Cook County sheriff's spokeswoman Sophia Ansari said Sunday.
At the scene of the shooting, Alana Bell, 28, who said the officer is her boyfriend, stood in her pajamas and house slippers as she talked to police officers. Bell said the officer was visiting her after coming back from a nightclub.
Bell said she saw a man approach a parked gray car where her boyfriend was sitting with his friends. The man tapped on the passenger window of the car with the barrel of his gun and announced a robbery, she said.
Bell said her boyfriend got out his gun and the two exchanged gunfire. Bell said she wrapped her jacket around her boyfriend's bleeding hand and called 911.
Police said they were trying to determine if a 21-year-old man found wounded on a sidewalk about two miles away around the same time was connected to the shooting of the officer. The man had suffered gunshot wounds to the leg and shoulder, police said.
