A Chicago police officer has been charged in the death of a 95-year-old World War II veteran who was shot repeatedly with a bean-bag gun at a nursing home last year. Park Forest Police officer Craig Taylor, 43, was charged last Wednesday with a felony count of reckless conduct in the death of John Wrana. Taylor was released on his own recognizance Monday after a brief hearing. According to a court document filed by the Cook County prosecutors, Taylor and other officers were called to Victory Centre where Wrana lived on July 26, 2013, after a staff member reported Wrana was threatening other residents and was combative with emergency workers attempting to take him to the hospital.
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John Wrana was shot dead with bean-bag rounds in his Chicago assisted living home in July last year
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Police were called when he'd become belligerent after refusing treatment for a urinary tract infection
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He was brandishing his cane and a shoehorn when he was shot
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Patrolman Craig Taylor, 43, was yesterday charged in the death
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Prosecutors claim Taylor was needlessly violent and didn't try to calm Wrana before shooting him
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