Felon gunned down by Chicago clerk was an attempted cop killer on the run

By Bob Owens | 3:43 PM | December 12, 2013

We told you a story earlier today about a store clerk who shot and killed a paroled felon during a robbery. It now seems that the dead robber, Demarcus Brandon, was an attempted cop killer:

At the time he was shot by the store clerk on 87th Street Tuesday, Demarcus Brandon, 25, was free after being paroled in two 2007 criminal cases involving the robbery of a fast-food restaurant in Dolton. After that robbery, Brandon was shot when he aimed a shotgun at Harvey police as officers from several jurisdictions chased him and two other suspects.

For the last three weeks, Harvey police had been seeking Brandon after a man tried to rob a store in Harvey in Nov. 24, then shot a 43-year-old officer who is a six-year veteran of the Harvey Police Department, said Sean Howard, a spokesman for Harvey.

I’m pretty sure that the clerk is now politically immune from prosecution, even in Garry McCarthy’s Chicago.

Bob Owens is the Editor of BearingArms.com. Bob is a graduate of roughly 400 hours of professional firearms training classes, including square range and force-on force work with handguns and carbines. He is a past volunteer instructor with Project Appleseed. He most recently received his Vehicle Close Quarters Combat Instructor certification from Centrifuge Training, and is the author of the short e-book, So You Want to Own a Gun. He can be found on Twitter at bob_owens.