- Three separate attacks on Chicago Police within a wild 24-hour period were mercifully unsuccessful, authorities say.
But a trio of defendants now face felony charges in connection with the unrelated attacks Friday and Saturday.
They began at lunchtime Friday, when Jenkins Cooper, 40, allegedly fired four shots at an FBI agent and Chicago cops as they executed a search warrant on his Englewood home. - Early Saturday morning, officers again got lucky when a gunman opened fire at them — this time on the West Side.
Self-confessed Vice Lords gang member Terry Jones, 26, allegedly shot at two officers as they sat in a marked Chevrolet Tahoe on the 1400 block of South Avers, guarding a car that had been seized following an earlier police chase. - And at lunchtime Saturday, insurance worker Ashley Day, 25, attempted to run over two downtown bicycle cops in her 2005 Corvette, prosecutors allege.
Initially stopped for texting while driving and making an illegal U-turn near Randolph and Stetson, Day, of Hazel Crest, escaped by reversing at the first cop, it’s alleged.
Cornered again by police in the 200 block of North Michigan, she allegedly tried the same trick again on a second bicycle cop, before she was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault of a peace officer, fleeing and eluding and the original traffic offences.
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