As more details emerge on the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer at a hospital, questions over the SAFE-T Act are coming again to the forefront.
The suspect in the case, identified by prosecutors and police as 27-year-old Alphanso Talley, was charged with first-degree murder and a host of other crimes during a court hearing on Monday in Chicago.
This is not Talley’s first brush with the law according to prosecutors, with NBC 5 Investigates also uncovering a series of convictions for a variety of crimes over the last decade.
There was an active warrant for Talley’s arrest after he missed a March court date according to the NBC 5 Investigates team, and he had been on electronic monitoring on charges of armed robbery and vehicular hijacking, according to Cook County officials.
His release from custody during that time is being questioned by numerous officials after he allegedly fatally shot 38-year-old CPD Officer John Bartholomew and critically wounded another officer in a shooting at Endeavor Swedish Hospital on Saturday.
Those critical of the release include Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza, who is weighing whether to run for mayor of Chicago.
“Officer Bartholomew would be alive today if this massively repeat offender of violent crime after violent crime were behind bars where he belonged,” she said. “No reasonable person breathing should think it’s okay to put an armed robber, carjacker on an electronic monitor and send them on their merry way.”
Talley was convicted of three separate armed robberies and was sentenced to seven years in prison in 2018, according to court documents obtained by NBC Chicago.
After his release in 2019, he was then arrested for possession of a firearm in 2021 and was sentenced to three years.
While on mandatory supervision he was charged with stealing a car in 2023 and was released two years into a four-year prison sentence in 2025.
He was charged with armed robbery and vehicle hijacking in separate cases in May 2025. He was put on electronic monitoring and did not show up for a court date in March, and a warrant was active for his arrest.
On Saturday, Talley was accused of pistol-whipping a clerk at a dollar store in an armed robbery, stealing an unspecified amount of cash in the robbery.
Police were able to track his locations thanks to a GPS device hidden within the money, and when he was arrested, prosecutors said he complained of a medical problem, and was transported to Swedish Hospital.
While there, officers uncuffed Talley for a medical exam, and that’s when he allegedly pulled out a gun and fatally shot Bartholomew while critically wounding another officer.
Federal charges were filed in the case, with his girlfriend accused of a straw purchase in 2024 to obtain the gun for him, according to prosecutors.
Chicago Ald. Anthony Napolitano called the SAFE-T Act “a failed system” in remarks on the shooting Monday.
“It’s a failed system. It’s an absolutely failed system,” he said.
Talley’s case was continued during a hearing Monday, but he was ordered held until that next court date.
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