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.
Hours before Harris surrendered, a man who is suspected in late Wednesday’s shooting that killed Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic, a 49-year-old Bradley police officer, and critically wounded her partner, Officer Tyler Bailey, 27, was arrested Friday morning at a home in North Manchester, Indiana, police said.
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…
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