A former railroad police officer who was shot more than two dozen times during a shootout with police in 2005 was sentenced to 40 years in prison today.
The sentence was handed down by Judge Clayton Crane at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse.
Howard Morgan was charged in 2005 with four counts of attempted murder, after shooting at four police officers during an early morning traffic stop in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side. Morgan was in a van, the headlights off, when the officers pulled him over.
As one of the officers searched Morgan, who was off duty from his job at Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, he pulled out a handgun and fired, striking two of the officers.
Police returned fire and shot Morgan more than 20 times. He was taken in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital.
In 2007, Morgan was acquitted of aggravated battery and discharging a weapon. In January, he was retried and found guilty of the attempted murder charges
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