{"id":363835,"date":"2025-11-08T05:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T05:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/363835\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T05:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T05:29:09","slug":"chicago-crime-walter-johnson-pleads-guilty-after-police-sergeant-who-witnessed-fatal-shooting-shot-in-west-garfield-park-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/363835\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago crime: Walter Johnson pleads guilty after police sergeant who witnessed fatal shooting shot in West Garfield Park in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; A man accused of <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/man-charged-after-cpd-sergeant-who-witnessed-fatal-shooting-shot-in-wrist-police-say\/5893828\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">murdering another man and shooting a Chicago police officer<\/a> avoided trial after pleading guilty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Walter Johnson pleaded guilty Friday. He was identified as the person who shot a man, killing him, before shooting a police officer in the wrist on West Harrison in January 2020. The officer survived.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police said Johnson fatally shot a 26-year-old man in the first block of South Karlov Avenue on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A Chicago police sergeant witnessed the shooting and followed Johnson, who was driving a white pick-up truck, police said. When Johnson realized he was being followed, police said he got out of the pickup truck, pointed a gun at the police officer&#8217;s vehicle, and fired multiple rounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The officer was hit in the wrist and while en route to the hospital, the injured officer spotted the pick-up truck and insisted the pursuit continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The suspect&#8217;s vehicle crashed in the 2000-block West Congress Parkway and Johnson was taken into custody, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Johnson was charged with one count of first degree murder, one count of first degree attempted murder, one count of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon and aggravated battery\/discharge of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The injured officer, who had been with the department for more than 20 years at the time, survived the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Johnson will be back in court Nov. 14 for a status hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; A man accused of murdering another man and shooting a Chicago police officer avoided trial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":363836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[176249,960,5462,5464,7122,5481,5487,5457,176248,5386,1818,5482,176247,8436],"class_list":{"0":"post-363835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-176249","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-news","11":"tag-chicago-police","12":"tag-chicago-police-department","13":"tag-chicago-police-officer-shot","14":"tag-chicago-police-shooting","15":"tag-chicago-shooting","16":"tag-cpd-officer-shot","17":"tag-il","18":"tag-illinois","19":"tag-police-officer-shot","20":"tag-shooting-karlov-and-wilcox","21":"tag-west-garfield-park"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115512433999913216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}