Chicago legislation enforcement officers ID suspect, announce prices in homicide of police officer

Authorities in Chicago introduced {that a} suspect has been arrested and launched a mugshot of the convicted felon charged in connection to the homicide of a Chicago police officer.

Throughout a information convention on Wednesday, Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling stated Darion C. McMillian, 23, is going through a number of prices, together with one rely of first-degree homicide of 26-year-old Chicago Police Officer Enrique Martinez.

“This offender is a convicted felon who was on digital monitoring out of Will County. Evidently, this particular person shouldn’t have been on our streets with a totally automated weapon, a weapon used to kill Officer Martinez, in addition to one other particular person who was within the automobile with the offender,” Snelling stated. 

Round 8 p.m. Monday, Martinez and his companion responded to a report a few automobile, occupied by three folks, blocking site visitors within the East Chatham neighborhood.

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Chicago police introduced the arrest of Darion McMillian, who’s charged in reference to the homicide of Officer Enrique Martinez. (Chicago Police Division)

Previous to extra officers arriving to help the cease, Martinez and his companion spoke with the motive force and noticed McMillian reaching for a bag on the ground of the automobile, police described. 

When instructed to cease, McMillian allegedly pulled out a handgun and fired, fatally wounding Martinez.

Police stated that the motive force of the automobile was additionally struck by gunfire and killed. The id of the motive force has but to be launched.

McMillian then allegedly pushed the motive force’s physique out of the automobile, moved to the motive force’s seat and tried to flee. As an officer tried to intervene and pull him out of the automobile, McMillian reversed the automobile, dragging the officer, who fired his weapon as soon as into the bottom, police stated. 

Whereas making an attempt to flee, police stated McMillian crashed right into a parked automobile and took off on foot into a close-by condominium, the place a girl was inside. 

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Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling (WFLD )

McMillian reportedly discovered a knife and eliminated an digital monitoring machine from his ankle. 

Police stated the lady was not harmed and the officer who was dragged was in honest situation. 

McMillian was later caught and arrested. Police stated a second individual was additionally detained, however was later launched with out prices.

Snelling praised the responding officers who apprehended McMillian “amidst a chaotic scene,” and stated they did it “in honor of Officer Martinez’s sacrifice, and to verify nobody else in our group would face the identical heartbreak that Officer Martinez’s household goes by means of.”

“I would like that to resonate with everybody. Understanding the dangers. Out in these streets. Officer Martinez and all of our cops run towards this hazard to guard everybody within the metropolis,” Snelling stated. “All of us have to be outraged on the violent offenders who’re creating countless cycles of trauma in our communities. 

“We have to be outraged on the proliferation of weapons which might be killing our residents, our kids and our first responders. Anger would not describe the sensation that I really feel proper now.” 

Snelling was joined by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Prepare dinner County State’s Lawyer Kim Foxx to announce the fees in Martinez’s homicide.

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and a metropolis crime scene. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/Tribune Information Service by way of Getty Photographs, FOX 32 Chicago)

“Whereas as we speak’s prices will not deliver again Officer Enrique Martinez. It is our hope that these prices will deliver a way of justice. Justice for the Household. And all that knew and cherished Officer Enrique Martinez,” Johnson stated. 

McMillian had a legal background, and was indicted by a grand jury in Will County on prices of illegal possession of hashish and illegal possession of hashish with intent to ship in January 2023. 

Then, final month, a Will County grand jury indicted McMillian on prices of defrauding a drug screening check, the place he was then launched on digital monitoring, FOX 32 reported.

“The police cannot do that on their own. We’d like the group to step up. We’d like everyone to begin stepping up. We’d like folks to begin accountability for many who are committing these acts and repeatedly committing acts,” Snelling stated.

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McMillian’s subsequent courtroom look is scheduled for Thursday on the Leighton Prison Courthouse. 

He’s charged with two counts of first-degree homicide, one being first-degree homicide of a police officer, together with residential housebreaking, illegal use of a weapon-machine gun, and illegal use of a weapon within the capturing loss of life of a police officer.