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Daily Stormer
January 19, 2016
But I thought it were always the other way round?
Every phone call over the past nine years has filled Pam Cook with a sense of dread. She worried that each could be yet another update about the investigation and legal proceedings related to the 2006 shooting death of her husband Thomas, a Metra police officer.
On Thursday, Pam Cook said she and her two children can enjoy life again after a Cook County jury convicted 28-year-old Jemetric Nicholson of first-degree murder in the killing of her husband, three months after a jury failed to reach a verdict the first time Nicholson was tried for the crime.
“I don’t have to worry about the phone ringing and being brought back to his murder again,” she said.
The jury deliberated for two days and was sequestered overnight before reaching its decision.
Prosecutors said Nicholson worked with two other men to sneak up on Cook as he sat inside his marked squad car on Sept. 27, 2006. The officer was on special patrol near the 147th Street Metra station in Harvey when he was shot twice in the back of the head.
Members of the officer’s family gasped when the guilty verdict was read aloud in Cook County Judge Frank Zelezinski’s Markham courtroom.
Jurors asked Thursday morning to again watch video submitted as evidence that showed Nicholson and a key witnesses, Jeremy Lloyd, talking about what they were doing at and around the time Cook was killed. Nicholson, in one recorded interview with police conducted in the weeks after Cook’s death, told police he was bagging marijuana when the officer was murdered.
Lloyd identified Nicholson as the shooter during interrogations early in the investigation, and in his testimony during the trial. Lloyd, who agreed to speak in court as part of a plea agreement for a lesser sentence for his role as a lookout in Cook’s slaying, said he watched Nicholson point a gun at the Metra police officer’s head after creeping close to the squad car, and that he heard two shots fired after he turned away and ran.
Zelezinski, who presided over both trials, declared a mistrial after jurors in the first were unable to reach a unanimous decision after more than 25 hours of deliberations over several days.
Pam Cook said she was confident through this trial that the jury would return a guilty verdict, and that her children can now get a sense of closure and peace after years of waiting.
“I’m ecstatic,” said Marcia Williams, Thomas Cook’s younger sister. “I’m absolutely ecstatic.”
“His children and his wife needed closure,” said Williams, who added that she would never feel a sense of closure herself.
Thomas Cook’s brother, Bob, said shortly after the verdict was delivered that it was “about time.”
“You can’t use the word ‘happy’ because happy is something out of the realm at this time,” said Bob Cook, who works as a Cook County sheriff’s deputy. “We’re relieved that it’s over and done.”
Witnesses consistently identified Nicholson as the shooter over the years, despite other inconsistencies in the stories they told, prosecutors said.
