Officers testified Tuesday about their narrow escape at the trial of Floyd E. Brown, charged with murder in the death of Deputy Jacob Keltner in 2019.
A guest at the motel also described how he saw a man limping to his car and driving off just after the shooting, before the witness discovered Keltner lying shot in the parking lot.
McHenry County Sheriff’s Sgt. Daniel Kramer took the stand to say that a hotel clerk had told him Brown’s girlfriend had just paid the bill for his stay in Room 305 minutes before. At Kramer’s request, a maintenance man went into the hotel room on the pretense of looking for a water leak, and came out to confirm that Brown and his girlfriend were inside.
One of the bullets hit Brown’s girlfriend in the arm after she had answered the door. Because she was near the doorway, Kramer said, officers could not return fire for fear of endangering her. The deputies retreated, Flannery to a stairwell, the other two to the elevator. A guest at the hotel, Oracio Gonzalez, testified that he was in his car in the rear parking lot, checking his emails, when he heard two popping sounds. He looked up to see a man limping across the lot to his car, hunched over and holding one arm to his waist. Gonzalez did not identify the man as Brown, but said the man left in a gray sedan.
At the time of his arrest, Brown was on parole for a series of burglaries in McLean and Macon counties in 2011. Sentenced to 13 years in prison, records show he had been released in January 2018 with credit for good behavior.
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