Police officer says World War Two vet he shot was threat

By Agnieszka Zielinska MARKHAM, Ill. (Reuters) - The Chicago-area police officer who fatally shot a 95-year-old World War Two vet with a bean bag gun feared for his life when he confronted the knife-wielding man at a nursing home, the officer's lawyer told a court on Friday. In closing arguments, prosecutors told the court in the Chicago suburb of Markham that Craig Taylor, 44, an officer in the suburb of Park Forest, could have found a more peaceful way to defuse the situation and should be found guilty of reckless conduct in the 2013 death of John Wrana, Jr. "John Wrana was absolutely not an imminent threat," the state argued, but "a confused old man." He had been shot with five bean bag rounds at a distance of five to six feet, with experts saying the rounds traveled about 190 miles per hour. If convicted, Taylor, who was in the company of other officers when he fired a shotgun loaded with bean bag rounds, faces up to three years' imprisonment. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..