Three face charges in separate attacks on Chicago police
BY KIM JANSSEN Staff Reporter kjanssen@suntimes.com February 5, 2012 7:14PM
Ashley Day mugshot. | Chicago Sun-Times
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Updated: February 6, 2012 11:23PM
Three separate attacks on Chicago Police within a wild 24-hour period were mercifully unsuccessful, authorities say.
But a trio of defendants now faces 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 at his home in the 7300 block of South Wood in Englewood.
The shots missed, and he came outside with his hands up soon after, prosecutors said Sunday.
“I didn’t know y’all was the police — I wouldn’t have shot,” Cooper allegedly told the officers. He was charged with five counts of attempted murder of a peace officer.
Records show Cooper has a 1995 conviction for the attempted murder of a cop, and Judge Jackie Portman denied him bail.
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 in the 1400 block of South Avers, guarding a car that had been seized after a police chase.
A bullet shattered the rear window of the police SUV, and Jones was arrested near the scene with the .38-caliber handgun used in the shooting, according to a police report.
After he was arrested, he said that “the police officers were chasing his friend and he wanted them to chase him,” prosecutors allege. Jones, of the 1500 block of South Hamlin, was charged with two counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm; bail was denied Sunday.
And at lunchtime Saturday, insurance worker Ashley Day, 25, of Hazel Crest, attempted to run over two downtown bicycle cops in her 2005 Corvette, prosecutors alleged.
Stopped for texting while driving and making an illegal U-turn near Randolph and Stetson, Day escaped by reversing at the first cop, authorities said.
Cornered again by police in the 200 block of North Michigan, she allegedly tried the same trick again on a second bicycle cop. She was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault of a peace officer, fleeing and eluding and the original traffic offenses.
Judge Portman set her bail at $10,000 on Sunday.
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