Chicago cop killing suspect allegedly preyed on ‘joke of a system’ costing officers their lives: city leader

A Chicago antheral with astir a decade-long rap expanse is acceptable to look successful tribunal Wednesday aft authorities accidental helium killed a constabulary serviceman and gravely injured different successful the latest illustration of what 1 metropolis person called a "joke of a system" that is costing cops their lives.

Alphanso Talley, 27, is charged with sidesplitting Chicago Police Department (CPD) Officer John Bartholomew, 28, astatine Swedish Hospital connected Saturday, April 25. Prosecutors allege Talley besides changeable different constabulary serviceman during the incident. 

He is scheduled to look successful Cook County Circuit Court connected Wednesday for a presumption proceeding successful the case.

Talley was taken into custody conscionable hours earlier the shooting successful transportation with a suspected equipped robbery astatine a section Family Dollar, authorities antecedently said. Officials allege that helium pistol-whipped a pistillate worker wrong the store earlier stealing her wallet and keys.

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Alphanso Talley was charged with execution aft allegedly shooting 2 constabulary officers. (Cook County Sheriff's Office)

Immediately aft his arrest, Talley allegedly told authorities helium had swallowed narcotics and requested to beryllium taken to the hospital. 

While receiving aesculapian treatment, constabulary accidental Talley retrieved a weapon from underneath a broad and changeable some officers earlier attempting to flight custody. 

"He was going to effort an flight erstwhile helium pretended to swallow drugs," prosecutors antecedently told the tribunal portion arguing for Talley to stay down bars. "He knew constabulary would instrumentality him to the infirmary for his ain well-being. He knew helium would beryllium uncuffed astatine that time. He did that to officers who simply took him to the infirmary for his ain well-being."

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John Bartholomew was changeable and killed connected Saturday, April 25, 2026, astatine Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital successful Chicago. (Chicago Police Department)

Following his archetypal tribunal appearance, Judge D’Anthony Thedford ordered Talley to stay successful custody up of his trial. 

"It is wide to this tribunal that you airs a menace to immoderate idiosyncratic you’re around," helium said. "If you’re retired — you’re dangerous. I cannot spot that you volition travel immoderate orders that this tribunal gives. No conditions that I tin suggest tin support the assemblage harmless from you."

The alleged shooting comes arsenic the latest successful a agelong enactment of convulsive crimes involving Talley spanning the past 9 years, according to Illinois Department of Corrections records.

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Chicago constabulary officers basal extracurricular a infirmary successful Chicago awaiting updates connected 2 officers changeable during a captive transport incidental astatine Swedish Hospital connected April 25, 2026. A fishy was taken into custody aft a little manhunt successful the neighborhood. (Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images)

His rap expanse includes a condemnation for 4 counts of aggravated robbery with a firearm successful 2017, unlawful usage oregon possession of a firearm by a felon with a anterior condemnation successful 2021, artillery connected a bid serviceman successful 2023 and possession/aiding and abetting a stolen centrifugal vehicle.

At the clip of the alleged shooting, Talley had been released from custody nether the Illinois SAFE-T Act, which established cashless bail successful 2021. 

"As metropolis workers, you spot the reasons that pb to this shooting," Chicago alderman Anthony Napolitano told Fox News Digital. "And this vicinity and myself person pointed it retired for years."

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According to Napolitano, the city’s "weak" judicial strategy coupled with the SAFE-T Act puts some instrumentality enforcement and Chicago’s residents astatine risk. 

"It’s a gag of a system," Napolitano said. "It’s flawed and it’s broken." 

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Talley was besides wearing an ankle bracelet astatine the clip of the alleged robbery and shooting, starring metropolis officials to question Cook County’s physics monitoring program.

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"[Officials] don’t cognize wherever the [electronic monitored felons] are oregon however to attest for them oregon however to get successful interaction with them. They’re fundamentally connected the run," Napolitano said. "We should cognize arsenic residents of the city, what is the menace level setup that you arsenic a justice are allowing these radical to spell connected an physics monitoring system?"

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Napolitano besides pointed to the city’s relaxed bail strategy creating a civilization of vexation and debased morale among constabulary officers. 

"With [officials] pushing this ‘catch-and-release’ SAFE-T Act, you’ve got coppers that are two, three, 4 generations of Chicago constabulary officers that couldn’t hold to beryllium a constabulary officer, [and have] pridefulness to enactment that azygous connected and support what we judge is the top metropolis successful the state by proactively going aft crime," Napolitano told Fox News Digital.

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"And past to find retired that erstwhile you’re moving your butt off, and astir dying connected a regular ground due to the fact that radical are emboldened and they’re not acrophobic of shooting oregon sidesplitting the constabulary anymore," helium added. 

From 2021 to 2024, much than 170 Chicago Police Department officers had been changeable oregon changeable astatine successful the enactment of duty, including 2 fatally, according to information released by officials.

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Napolitano stresses that the magnitude of unit against officers has taken a toll connected the department, portion citing the influx of memorial ribbons scattered passim Chicago’s neighborhoods successful remembrance of each fallen officer.

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"We’re losing them astatine an alarming complaint connected a regular basis," Napolitano said. "And those f------- ribbons bash not travel disconnected the poles now, due to the fact that we support losing our officers."

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ABC 7 reported that successful December, Judge John Lyke — who had presided implicit Talley’s transgression cases for astatine slightest 3 years — said Talley’s "mind is yet developing" and that helium "may beryllium connected the way to making amended decisions" earlier releasing him from custody successful a abstracted lawsuit with lone an ankle monitor.

Authorities subsequently issued a warrant for his apprehension connected March 11 portion helium was connected pretrial merchandise for the alleged equipped robbery aft helium had 2 physics show violations successful aboriginal March, according to tribunal documents.

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Talley is charged with murder, attempted murder, aggravated unlawful restraint, equipped robbery, aggravated discharge of a firearm, possession of a firearm by a felon, aggravated artillery of a bid officer, aggravated battery, flight and unlawful usage of a weapon.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Cook County prosecutor’s bureau and the nationalist defender's bureau for comment.

Fox News' Peter D'Abrosca, Adam Sabes and Patrick McGovern contributed to this report.