Man charged with killing Chicago police officer and wounding partner in hospital shooting

Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune on Apr 27, 2026

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The man arrested in connection with the shooting of two Chicago police officers over the weekend has been criminally charged, authorities said.

Prosecutors have charged 26-year-old Alphanso Talley with murder, attempted murder, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated battery, escaping from police, aggravated unlawful restraint, armed robbery, possession and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon as a flow, obstruction of justice and possession of a fake ID. Talley also had three warrants outstanding for his arrest, according to a CPD news release.

One of those outstanding warrants alleged a lapse in his pretrial electronic monitoring at the time of the alleged crime, Cook County court records show.

Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling said at a news conference Saturday that the officers had brought Talley to the Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in the Lincoln Square neighborhood for observation after he was arrested in connection with an armed robbery. Officer John Bartholomew and another, not yet identified policeman were rushed to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where Bartholomew was pronounced dead and the second officer was last reported in critical condition.

Judge John F. Lyke had issued a warrant for Talley’s arrest March 11 while he was on pretrial release for a previous armed robbery case, according to court records. That warrant was still active as of Sunday evening.

Court records show Talley, a resident of the South Shore neighborhood, has been in and out of prison since 2017, mostly for a series of armed robbery cases.

The electronic monitoring arrangement dates back to December 2025, when a bench trial had been scheduled for the case but continued by agreement, court records show. Documents show Talley had been scheduled to plead in the case Jan. 8 of this year but there is no record of him actually pleading guilty or not guilty.

The next day, Jan. 9, state prison records show Talley was paroled the next day from Stateville Correctional Center, where he was listed as an absconder. He’d been serving concurrent sentences for 2023 and 2024 cases over possession of a stolen vehicle and battering a police officer.

Authorities changed his electronic monitoring conditions to give him limited movement for school or work, records show, though Cook County prosecutors filed a sanctions petition in February, alleging Talley had violated the terms of his release. The petition, contained in court records, did not specify the nature of that violation.

A pretrial monitoring report from March 11 shows that Talley was first fitted with an ankle monitor Dec. 11 of last year, on the same day as a bench trial before Judge Lyke that appeared to be continued. He had been allowed limited movement Monday through Thursday, but court records show his monitor had alerted two violations within three days in early March.

On March 9, the report stated, the monitor “entered communication loss: sleep mode due to failure to charge. The individual’s whereabouts are unknown.”

Around 8 a.m. Saturday morning, Albany Park (17th) District police responded to a Family Dollar at 3239 W. Lawrence Ave. for a call of an armed robbery in progress, according to police intelligence reviewed by the Tribune. There, officers pursued a man now identified as Talley and one other man who had been robbing the a dollar store worker at gunpoint, eventually arresting Talley at the intersection of Kedzie Avenue and Roscoe Street.

Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling said at a news conference Saturday that the officers had brought Talley to the Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in the Lincoln Square neighborhood for observation. According to a police report obtained by the Tribune, the officers apparently took Talley to the hospital because he said he has swallowed five bags of drugs and was having trouble breathing.

Per a statement from Endeavor Health, Talley was admitted to the hospital’s emergency department around 9 a.m., fired shots at the officers about two hours later and fled the building.

A still from surveillance video footage obtained by the Tribune showed the suspect running naked down a street, with white patches stuck to his chest. Officials later arrested him on the 2600 block of West Carmen Avenue in Lincoln Square.

Bartholomew’s neighbors, speaking on their Edison Park block Sunday afternoon, described the slain officer as generous and helpful around their neighborhood, coming to neighbors’ aid when they encountered “National Geographic things” like massive wasp nests. He had gotten married last year, friends said.

Talley is set to come before a judge at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse Monday morning.

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