A Republican county commissioner cracked down on the infamous Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx for being soft on crime, after a shooting at a mall in his community injured four people and sent holiday shoppers running for safety.
“DuPage County is always a county that prides itself on making security a top priority,” said Commissioner Peter DiCianni told Chicago WGN-TV. “And much of our violent crime has come in from the East” – referring to Cook County, which consists primarily of crime-ridden Chicago.
Two gunmen opened fire on each other around 5:45 p.m. Thursday night in the Oakbrook Center in Oak Brook, a DuPage suburb about 15 miles west of downtown Chicago.
One suspect, who was not immediately identified, was wounded and arrested while police were still searching for the other shooter, the Chicago Tribune reported. Witnesses told police they heard up to 15 shots fired.
Three women in the outdoor mall, who were also shot, were expected to survive, Oak Brook Police Chief James Kruger said.
“We have a [Cook County] the state attorney who often does not prosecute the crime as she should, ”DiCianni said of Foxx. “I can tell you that these offenders are speaking on behalf of our State Attorney [in DuPage County], will be fully prosecuted. And we have to send a message that we do not tolerate this kind of crime in our county. ”
DiCianni added that his county’s response to the incident included four different SWAT teams.
Foxx, a Democrat who has served as Cook County’s state attorney since 2016, has been under fire during Chicago’s sharp rise in crime, which includes more than 1,500 murders over the past two years, according to the Chicago Tribune. Her profile gained a major national hit after she mishandled the case against actress Jussie Smollett, who this month was convicted of a hate crime scam.
A report by a special prosecutor issued last week found that Foxx’s office had abused the case.
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