A suburban man whose federal life sentence was commuted by then-President Obama in 2015 has been charged with three counts of attempted murder in connection with a recent shooting on Interstate 57.
Alton Mills, 54, of Evergreen Park, is being held without bond at the Cook County Jail, Illinois State Police said in a news release on Friday. Mills was arrested for a shooting that occurred on Sunday near the I-57 northbound entrance ramp from 147th Street in Posen, according to authorities. Multiple shots were fired into the victim's vehicle from the suspect's vehicle, striking the back seat passenger, according to police.
Mills, who was officially charged on Thursday, was arrested in 1993 on federal conspiracy charges as part of a crack cocaine conspiracy.
Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weeklyU.S. Sen. Dick Durbin shared Mills' story on the Senate floor as he advocated for a prison reform bill and wrote Obama in support of a petition for commutation. Mills' sentence was commuted in December 2015, and he was released in early 2016 after 22 years behind bars.
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