A Cook County jury today acquitted a South Side man of attempted murder of a police officer but found him guilty of aggravated battery with a firearm in the shooting of a Chicago detective during a chase more than four years ago.
The jury deliberated nearly seven hours before returning the split verdict for Bobby Selvie, according to court officials.
Selvie, who turns 27 on Saturday, faces 15 to 60 years in prison on the battery count, according to Andy Conklin, spokesman for the Cook County state's attorney's office.
Prosecutors said the detective and his partner were investigating gang activity on the South Side in May 2007 when they tried to stop Selvie and two other men for a field interview.
The men ran and the detectives chased them to Selvie’s house in the 800 block of West 50th Place, prosecutors said. As the detective followed one of the men toward the side of the house, Selvie allegedly fired, striking the detective in the back.
Selvie is currently on parole for separate drunk driving and weapons convictions, for which he was sentenced to 6 years in prison in 2009.
The detective, who was in serious condition after the shooting but has since recovered, testified at the beginning of Selvie's four-day trial.
Selvie’s brother, Michael Selvie, 38, was sentenced to 55 years in prison last year in the 2006 slaying of former Chicago Bear Tank Johnson's bodyguard, Willie B. Posey, at a Near North nightclub.
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