Overview
- Jaylin Arnold, who pleaded guilty Thursday to being a felon in possession with prior gun convictions, received eight years from Judge Barbara Dawkins and is likely to be paroled in about three years under Illinois credit rules.
- Prosecutors dropped 90 other counts, including 65 Class X felonies — the state’s most serious charges short of murder — and the deal included a concurrent three-year narcotics sentence.
- Bodycam video released by Chicago’s police watchdog last week shows Officer Carlos Baker retreating after forcing an apartment door, stumbling, and firing one shot that hit Officer Krystal Rivera, with roughly 90 seconds passing before he checked on her.
- Rivera’s mother called the eight-year term “extremely severe” for Arnold and pressed for accountability for Baker, while a wrongful-death suit she filed alleges he failed to render aid and had a troubled prior relationship with Rivera.
- Prosecutors say a search of the apartment uncovered additional guns, drugs, and fake IDs, and the man accused of pointing a rifle at officers, Adrian Rucker, remains in custody awaiting trial.