(WBBM NEWRADIO) - A Springfield man has been sentenced by a federal judge in Rockford for the murder of a McHenry County Sheriff’s deputy three years ago. The deputy’s father said it was an insult.
Floyd Brown’s was sentenced for the murder of Sheriff's Deputy Jacob Keltner. Keltner’s father, Howard, said he should have gotten life.
“I don’t think the judge was right. I feel like the judge slapped my son right in the face,” Keltner said.
The deputy was on a fugitive task force, assisting U.S. Marshals who were attempting to arrest Brown in a hotel in Rockford. Brown fired through the door and wall and then escaped out a window, when he shot Keltner. He then led police on a high-speed chase before being arrested along I-55.
Brown, now 43-years-old, has already spent most of his life in prison.
“My son is in the ground for the rest of eternity, and I won’t see him again until I go,” Keltner’s father told CBS-23 in Rockford.
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