Wisconsin man given prison for illegally selling gun that killed Chicago police commander
CHICAGO - In the almost nine months since Chicago police Cmdr. Paul Bauer was fatally shot in the Loop, John Escalante has been unable to bring himself to return to the gravesite of his childhood friend.
Chicago's onetime interim police superintendent, Escalante traveled Thursday to a federal courtroom in Madison, Wis., with a simple message for the judge who was about to sentence an unlicensed gun dealer who illegally sold the firearm that killed Bauer.
"I have not gone back since the day we buried him," Escalante said in emotional, sometimes halting remarks. "I just haven't had the strength. I'll go back to the cemetery in the next couple of days. I want to tell him that justice was served today."
Minutes later, U.S. District Judge James
