(WBBM NEWSRADIO) – A 31-year-old Chicago man has pleaded guilty to shooting two federal agents and a task force officer on the city's South Side more than two years ago.
Eugene McLaurin faces the prospect of decades behind bars for firing several shots into a vehicle the law-enforcement officers were riding in. According to a plea agreement, McLaurin "had mistakenly suspected the officers were members of an opposing gang" when he pulled alongside and opened fire at an I-57 on-ramp on July 7, 2021, federal prosecutors said.
The officers who were shot had been driving in an unmarked vehicle during a covert investigation, officials said. All three were seriously injured.
McLaurin tossed his handgun in a sewer drain and hid the key to his vehicle to try to conceal his involvement in the shootings, authorities said.
McLaurin, who has been in custody since 2021, will be sentenced in March. He pleaded guilty earlier this week, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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