KIDS THEY SERVE.
((ANNOUNCER))
FROM WTVO CHANNEL
17 ...
TWO STATIONS, MORE
LOCAL NEWS.
THIS IS EYEWITNESS
NEWS LOCAL AT FIVE.
((MIMI))
GOOD EVENING I'M
MIMI MURPHY.
CAMERON JACOBS
HAS BEEN FOLLOWING
THIS STORY ALL DAY.
HE JOINS US IN THE
STUDIO WITH MORE.
((CAMERON))
THAT'S RIGHT MIMI...
THIS MORNING THE
WINNEBAGO COUNTY
STATES ATTORNEY
MADE IT CLEAR SHE
WAS NOT DROPPING
ANY OF THE CHARGES
FLOYD BROWN FACES
IN WINNEBAGO
COUNTY.
Marilyn Hite Ross
Winnebago County
State's Attorney
"We are here today to
announce a 75 count bill
of indictment on Floyd
Brown for the murder of
deputy Jacob Keltner."
DEPUTY JAKE
KELTNER WAS SHOT
AND KILLED AT A
ROCKFORD HOTEL ON
MARCH SEVENTH
WHILE TRYING TO
SERVE A WARRANT TO
FLOYD BROWN.
ILLINOIS STATE
POLICE ARRESTED
BROWN ABOUT 150
MILES DOWNSTATE.
Carl Heintz Illinois State
Police District 16
"Our ability to capture
him in the same day he
committed this crime or
allegedly committed this
crime is a testament to
the networking and
relationships that all of
these agencies behind
you share."
OF THE 75 COUNTS IN
WINNEBAGO
COUNTY... 60 OF THEM
ARE FIRST DEGREE
MURDER.
Marilyn Hite Ross
Winnebago County
State's Attorney
" We have three counts
of attempt first degree
murder and that's
involving the other three
officers that were there
with deputy Keltner."
Winnebago County
State's Attorney
"So there are procedures
for bringing Mr. Brown
into state court because
he was taken into federal
custody first."
BROWN IS FACING THE
DEATH PENALTY ON
THE FEDERAL
CHARGES.
BUT HE ONLY FACES
LIFE IN PRISON ON
THESE CHARGES.
AND ON THE COST OF
TRYING BROWN... HITE
ROSS SAYS YOU CAN
NOT PUT A COST ON
PROSECUTING
VIOLENT CRIME.
Marilyn Hite Ross
Winnebago County
State's Attorney
"It doesn't get more
violent when you have an
officer working in the line
the fullest extent of the
law."
((CAMERON))
FLOYD BROWN IS DUE
IN FEDERAL COURT
TOMORROW AT 3 P-M.
((MIMI))
A ROCKFORD MAN...
