An Aurora man has been sentenced to 55 years in prison after he shot at an Aurora police car while out on parole in March 2020, officials said.
Andres Ramirez Jr., 48, of the 700 block of Second Avenue, was found guilty in May of felony armed violence, aggravated discharge of a firearm and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office officials said in a news release Monday.
Prosecutors presented evidence at the trial that Ramirez stepped out of a house in the 200 block of Jefferson Street in Aurora and fired eight shots from a handgun in the direction of a marked police car that was driving down the street around 7:30 p.m. March 19, 2020, officials said.
No one was injured, but one bullet struck a home across the street and another hit a parked car.
Ramirez was on parole at the time for a 2003 attempted murder. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison for that crime, and was placed on three years of mandatory supervised release in 2017.
Ramirez was sentenced to 55 years for the armed violence charge and 25 years for the aggravated discharge offense, with the terms to be served concurrently.
