Former Chicago police officer Joseph Cabrera was sentenced to probation after he pleaded guilty to firing at an unarmed man while off-duty and drunk.
A former Chicago police officer was sentenced to probation Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to firing at an unarmed man while off-duty and drunk.A former Chicago police officer was sentenced to probation Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to firing at an unarmed man while off-duty and drunk.
Judge Sophia Atcherson sentenced Cabrera to 24 months of probation with 50 hours of community service. She warned him that he could be sent to prison if he did not comply with the terms of probation. In a statement, a spokeswoman for State' Attorney Kim Foxx said the office "concluded that the totality of the evidence was insufficient to meet our burden of proof for the charges of attempted murder and aggravated discharge of a firearm against CPD officer Joseph Cabrera."
Following the hearing, Cabrera told the Sun-Times he was "a good guy" but he declined to discuss the case. "I'm just happy that life is going to be moving forward for me and my family," he said.On the night of the shooting, Cabrera was off-duty when he pulled his car behind another car where a man was sitting with his girlfriend near her home in the 5200 block of South Monitor Street.
The man also got out of his car and confronted Cabrera, who grabbed the man by the neck and punched him in the head before pulling out his Glock 17 pistol and firing toward the man, prosecutors said.In recordings released by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, Cabrera told a dispatcher, "He knocked me to the ground. He was attacking me and I fired a round. "He f--- attacked me and I spent a round.
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