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"You don't have to do this:" Report says murder suspect Darius Sullivan chased, executed Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic

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Darius Sullivan / Xandria Harris | Illinois State Police

Darius Sullivan / Xandria Harris | Illinois State Police

Murder suspect Darius Sullivan shot Bradley Police Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic with a rifle, then chased her down a hotel hallway and executed her with her own gun as she pleaded for her life. And the encounter was all recorded on body cam.

That's according to a report by AM 560 morning host Dan Proft, who cited a Chicago police lieutenant and Illinois State Police sources, who provided him with an email relating previously unreported details of the incident.

"Female cop (Marlene Rittmanic) was executed. She was shot with a rifle, in shoulder and round went into other shoulder, thus rendering her arms useless," said an internal email he posted on Twitter. "She runs down the hall, savage (Sullivan) chases her with a Glock9 with a barrel drum. She falls, begs for life saying you don't have to do this."


Tyler Bailey

"He says he does and gun jams. He then takes her duty gun and places it under her chin and shoots her, as she begged for her life. All caught on body cam."

According to a Porter County, Indiana arrest report from July, the 25 year old Sullivan is 6'2 and 200 pounds.

Rittmanic, 49, and her 27 year old partner, Tyler Bailey, were responding to a call of unattended dogs in a car in the parking lot of the Comfort Inn on Route 50 and Interstate 57.

Sullivan allegedly shot Bailey in the head. 

Bailey, who was married in Bourbonnais just two months ago, remains in critical condition at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn. A GoFundMe has been set up in support of his recovery.

Sullivan, of 1355 N. Arthur Burch Drive in Bourbonnais and Xandra Harris, 26, of 863 Quail Drive in Bonfield, were both charged on Dec. 30 with murder.

According to a 2014 petition for child support filed by Harris, she had Sullivan's child in 2014, when he was 19 and she was 18.

Court records show Sullivan has arrested 21 times in Kankakee County since 2014-- three times by the Bradley Police. 

Most recently, in May 202, Bradley Police arrested Sullivan for misdemeanor battery.

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