Court appearance delayed for man charged with firing gun, hitting police officer with pickup truck
A court hearing was delayed for a Hammond, Indiana, man charged with firing a gun during a brawl and hitting a Chicago police officer with a pickup truck over the weekend.
Carlos Sanchez-Roa, 28, of Hammond, Indiana, was charged with one felony count each of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery to a peace officer, and aggravated assault on a peace officer.
Police said just after 2 a.m. Saturday, police were called for a battery in progress and shots fired outside a business near Belmont and Central avenues.
An employee told officers that during a large fight, someone had fired a gun and directed them to the person, a 28-year-old man, who was getting into a red pickup truck.
As officers approached on foot and ordered the man out of the vehicle. He refused and accelerated the vehicle in their direction, hitting an officer, police said. The officers then fired their weapons at the truck as it continued to leave the scene.
Responding officers found the truck in the 3200 block of North Menard Avenue, a few blocks away, where the man, who the officers' gunfire had hit, was on the ground near the vehicle, suffering from gunshot wounds to his body.
Sanchez-Roa was arrested and taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition.
Police said a weapon was recovered from inside the truck.
It's unclear if and when he was released from the hospital.
The court did not give a reason as to why he didn't appear in court on Monday.
