Bond has been set for two suburban Chicago shoplifting suspects, including one charged with attempted murder in the wounding of a police officer dragged by the getaway car.
A third man who police say was driving the car was shot and wounded by the officer's partner. He remains hospitalized and has not been charged. The officer was treated and released.
At Saturday's hearing, a judge set bond at $400,000 for 51-year-old Robert L. Russell Jr. of Joliet, who police say was the passenger in the car. He's charged with attempted murder.
Twenty-eight-year-old Gerald Chamberlain, also of Joliet, was arrested inside the store and is charged with retail theft.
The store reported suspected shoplifters to police just after 10 p.m. Thursday. As a patrol car approached the store, one suspect bolted out of a door, jumped into a waiting car and closed the door on the pursuing officer's arm. The driver then drove off — hauling the officer with him.
"The officer was dragged quite some distance," Romeoville Police Chief Mark Turvey said at a news conference.
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Another officer repeatedly yelled at the driver to halt, then fired three or four shots, striking the driver with one bullet in the left arm and forcing him to stop, police said. The officer who became stuck in the car door injured his right shoulder.
