A federal jury found a Springfield man guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a McHenry County sheriff’s deputy outside a Rockford motel in 2019.
A federal jury late Friday afternoon found a Springfield man guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a McHenry County sheriff’s deputy outside a Rockford motel in 2019.
The jurors’ deliberations came after closing arguments were presented Friday morning in the two-week trial. In December 2018, prior to the shooting, , Bloomington police tried to arrest Brown during the commission of a burglary. Brown sped away in his Dodge Challenger and crashed before escaping. Shortly after, Brown and his girlfriend began staying at the Extended Stay hotel in Rockford.
Floyd Brown jumped from the third floor window of the Extended Stay America in Rockford on March 7, 2019. Brown led police on a long high-speed chase, exceeding 100 mph, before officers ran him off the road on I-55 near Bloomington, about 140 miles from Rockford. He kept driving through a farm field before his car struck a concrete ditch and came to a sudden stop. After a five-hour standoff in which police fired tear gas, Brown was arrested, and treated for injuries including a broken wrist, damaged heel and broken vertebra.