BRADLEY, Ill. (AP) — A woman wanted in the fatal shooting of one police officer and the wounding of another at a northern Illinois hotel surrendered to police hours after a man also suspected in the shooting was arrested in Indiana, police said.
Xandria Harris, 26, of Bradley, Illinois, turned herself in Friday afternoon at the Bradley Police Department while accompanied by her attorney, Illinois State Police said. She was being held at a detention facility in Kankakee.
Harris’ attorney, Phil Haddad, declined to discuss her alleged involvement in the shooting, but said that she turned herself in voluntarily and will appear in bond court on Monday.
“She maintains her innocence. She’s a mother of three children and she’s pregnant,” Haddad told WLS-TV on Friday.
This combo of images released by the Illinois State Police, shows Darius D. Sullivan, left, and Xandria A. Harris, two people authorities were searching for Thursday, Dec. 30 2021, who are believed to have been involved in the fatal shooting of one police officer and wounding of another at a northern Illinois hotel. (Illinois State Police via AP)
Darius Sullivan, a 26-year-old from Kankakee, Illinois, was wanted in the officers’ shootings on active warrants for first-degree murder, attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm.
State police said in a news release Friday evening that arrangements were being made to extradite Sullivan from Indiana to Kankakee County.
“In a multi-jurisdictional effort, two alleged cop killers have been taken into custody today and will now face justice,” Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly said in the news release.
Investigators believe Harris was at the hotel when Rittmanic and Bailey were shot.
Illinois State Police did not specify in their news release what charges she faces, but the (Kankakee) Daily Journal reported that she had been charged in a no-bond warrant with three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.
Rittmanic and Bailey were at a hotel late Wednesday to investigate a report of dogs that were barking in an unattended vehicle in the parking lot, police said. The officers found the room where the vehicle’s possible owner was staying and were shot while talking to the people in that room, authorities said.
The Daily Journal reported that five other people have been arrested in connection with the shootings, including two people who allegedly impeded the search for Sullivan and Harris.
The hotel shootings came hours after a sheriff’s deputy was fatally shot while responding to a motorist assist call on a highway near Mill Shoals, roughly 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of Bradley.
The Wayne County Sheriff’s Office said Deputy Sean Riley was found dead by a second officer who later arrived at the scene, and the deputy’s squad car was later found abandoned on I-64, police said. Authorities arrested a Kentucky man suspected in that attack and a carjacking in Missouri.
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This screws up the Liberal narrative a bit, doesn’t it?
“Rittmanic and Bailey were at a hotel late Wednesday to investigate a report of dogs that were barking in an unattended vehicle in the parking lot, police said. The officers found the room where the vehicle’s possible owner was staying and were shot while talking to the people in that room, authorities said.”
“The hotel shootings came hours after a sheriff’s deputy was fatally shot while responding to a motorist assist call on a highway near Mill Shoals, roughly 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of Bradley.”
Two officers killed because of talking to people in a hotel room and responding to a motorist assist. So, what did the officers do wrong this time?? Officers cannot even perform the most basic of duties anymore without fear of losing their lives. And the Liberal response is to defund the police and police reform. Police are being forced to overreact in a lot of cases because of this insanity they come face-to-face with—the sheer uncertainty of what might happen at any given second.
“So, what did the officers do wrong this time?” They should have first shot the barking dogs,,,,,,the ones barking in the Hotel Room.
What did they do wrong? NOT A DAM THING.
It’s getting to the point where LEOs will have to respond to every single call with weapons drawn — only, of course, to be accused of overreacting.
BETTER judged by 12 than carried by six.
These filthy dogs will probably get a big taxpayer funded pay off for damages they suffered when trying to get away with murder.
I wouldn’t be shocked to see them already OUT, after being released with NO BAIL.
Black lies matter has not started to riot yet because the stores have not completed restocking after Christmas.
Color me not surprised !!
3 kids with one on the way !! Not surprised
Democrats will have them vote in prison
AND of course they wil NEVER EVER demand to know who the daddy is. (OR more likely multiple daddies!)