"Anti-violence worker" shoots himself, gets 10 years

[Euler]

CWBChicago said:→

A 19-time convicted felon working as an anti-violence professional who shot himself in the butt inside a Bucktown gas station has been handed a ten-year prison sentence for possessing the firearm that wounded him.
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On July 9, 2022, [Gregory] Sherman walked into St. Elizabeth Hospital after a bullet passed entirely through his left butt cheek and struck his right foot, prosecutors said. He allegedly told Chicago cops that he had been closing a dispensary in the 1500 block of North Milwaukee when there was a fight outside, and someone fired shots, striking him as he walked by.

Sherman later tried unsuccessfully to have his statements to police suppressed at trial because he was, he claimed, under the influence of prescription drugs.

While Sherman was speaking with officers, other cops responded to the Shell gas station at 1768 West Armitage because 911 callers reported that a man had run out of the business after shooting himself.

Surveillance video from the gas station allegedly showed Sherman standing in line when a flash erupted near his back pocket as he adjusted his pants.
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Sherman must serve 85% of the ten-year sentence. He is currently scheduled to be paroled on Valentine's Day 2031. That may change, though, because he is still fighting another felony case in which he is accused of battering an Illinois State Police trooper during a "protest" on the Dan Ryan Expressway in May 2021.
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[Sweeper13]

Well...He finally got what was coming to him in the (rear) end. 🙃