A man who pleaded guilty last week to domestic battery after being paroled weeks before on a drug charge is charged with kidnapping his own child and then running down a Chicago police officer who tried to stop him.
Nicholas Sauer, 27, was shot by the officer he ran over in the parking lot of a Church's Fried Chicken parking lot at 1151 S. Independence Blvd in the North Lawndale neighborhood Sunday night, police and prosecutors said. Sauer is charged with child abduction, attempted murder, aggravated battery of a police officer and aggravated vehicular hijacking, said Tandra Simonton, a spokeswoman for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.