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Chicago Tribune
October 9, 2015
The widow of a Metra police officer who was shot in the back of the head and killed more than nine years ago testified Tuesday in the trial of the felon accused of slaying her husband.
Jemetric Nicholson, 28, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Thomas Cook, a 43-year-old veteran police officer who had been working a special detail near the 147th Street Metra station in Harvey when he was killed.
Pam Cook testified Tuesday at the Cook County courthouse in Markham that she spoke with her husband on the phone about their son playing soccer about 7:30 p.m. the night of his death. She told the jury that she tried calling him back twice that night before four officers came to her home about 10 p.m. and told her that her husband was involved in a crime scene.
Cook, a father of two from Indiana, was sitting in a Metra police car near the train station in Harvey when he was shot twice in the back of the head. He had been working overtime as part of an effort to investigate robberies at the station. Cook had been with Metra police since 2003 and had served 10 years with the Riverdale Police Department.
He was the first Metra police officer to be killed in the line of duty.
Nicholson, whose trial began Tuesday, faces more than 60 counts of murder and already is serving a 50-year sentence at Stateville Correctional Center for prior convictions that include attempted murder. He was 23 when the state’s attorney’s office charged him with Cook’s slaying in March 2010, and 19 when the officer was killed. In April, prosecutors filed a motion to seek a natural life sentence for Nicholson, according to court records.
Nicholson has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. His defense contends that no physical evidence exists tying him to the killing and that key witness Jeremy Lloyd’s testimony in court contradicts comments he made to investigators before the trial.
