A 47-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Wednesday for fatally shooting a high-ranking Chicago police official in a midday confrontation in the city’s busy Loop district in 2018.
The man, Shomari Legghette of Chicago, was ordered to serve a “natural life sentence” for the murder of Cmdr. Paul R. Bauer, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office announced.
“Justice was served today,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said in a statement. But she added that “it may be little comfort” to the wife and daughter Commander Bauer left behind. The mayor called him a…
