A Chicago man was sentenced to life in prison after shooting and killing a police officer as well as an ex-CHA cop on the South Side.
Timothy Herring shot Michael Flisk and Stephen Peters as Flisk, an officer, was processing a crime scene in which Herring had been stealing parts from Peters’ car.
Judge Mary Margaret Brosnahan described Herring as having shot both men in the head with the “precision of a trained assassin” and said that both men “were completely and utterly ambushed,” despite being armed. Brosnahan went on to say that Herring had attacked the men because he did not want to go back to jail.
During the trial, the victims’ families came forward to talk about their loss.
“I have been sentenced to a lifetime of sadness and sorrow, which I fear will never subside all due to a choice you made for us,” Nora Flisk, wife of Michael Flisk, told Timothy Herring in a victim-impact statement Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Thomas Mahoney read in court.
His daughter, Margaret Flisk, also said, “He never got to see retirement. He never got take that motorcycle trip. He did not get to see me graduate from college. He did not get to see my brother get married, nor meet his granddaughter. … I will never know the physical pain my dad suffered that day, but I will, every day and until the end of my life, miss my dad.”
D’Jana Peters also came forward to describe her husband as a “perfect living example of unconditional love.” She described the wait for the trial for justice for her husband as “hell” and then told Herring, “Now, your hell is just beginning.”
Below is coverage from when the trial first began in the spring.