By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
Two people have been charged in the shooting of an ATF agent in Gary, Ind., who was wounded during a shootout last Thursday.
Blake King, age 19, of Chicago and Bernard Graham, age 25, of Calumet City, Ill., were charged last Friday in a criminal complaint.
The charges include: Forcibly assaulting, opposing, impeding, intimidating and interfering with Special Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives while they were engaged in the performance of their official duties by use of deadly and dangerous weapons, infliction of bodily injury, using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to, and possessing in furtherance of a crime of violence, a firearm that was discharged.
“Gun violence doesn’t stop at the state line and neither do government investigations. We will continue to coordinate with law enforcement and prosecutors in this jurisdiction and others including Northern Illinois to defeat these criminals. We will never tolerate gun violence and never stop doing all we can to defeat it,” Indiana U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II said in a statement.
