CHICAGO — A downstate woman has been detained pending trial after prosecutors accused her of shooting a dozen rounds into an off-duty Chicago police officer’s home.
CPD officers took Bobbi Barnes, 51, into custody in Danville after local officers arrested her on unrelated charges, a Chicago police report said.
The off-duty officer and her young daughter were sleeping when someone fired shots through their bathroom and living room windows in the 10100 block of South Winston around 4:57 a.m. on March 14, according to prosecutors. Court filings offer conflicting ages for the daughter, with one saying she was 8 years old and the other 11 years old.
No injuries were reported.
Doorbell camera footage showed someone who initially appeared to be a man got out of a minivan with Missouri plates and fired into the home, officials said. Police found eight bullet holes in a bathroom window and four in a living room window.
Detectives searched Chicago police surveillance camera video footage and located a minivan in the area matching the gunman’s vehicle. It turned out to be a rental vehicle leased by Barnes, according to the allegations.
Based on that information, CPD officers secured a geolocation warrant for Barnes’ phone and determined that the device was in the area of the shooting at the time of the incident, according to prosecutors.
Court records do not offer a motive for the incident.
Judge Deidre Dyer issued the detention order to keep Barnes in jail on one count of aggravated discharge.
