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A Chicago police detective commander on Friday took the unusual step of overriding prosecutors’ decision not to pursue murder charges against a man suspected of killing a 7-year-old girl and injuring her young sister on the Northwest Side — then he was overruled.

A Chicago police commander overrode prosecutors who refused to file murder charges against a man who admitted to killing another man with a hammer over the weekend, according to CPD records.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announced Tuesday afternoon that she will not run for reelection in 2024.

The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office has repeatedly claimed that it approved 86% of felony cases that police bring in for approval last year. That’s not true.

When prosecutors said there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Joshua Jones with shooting two women last year, a CPD commander overruled and filed charges directly. Prosecutors dropped the case anyway. Now, Jones is charged with attacking another woman.

The Chicago Police Department and the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office were rattled by news of the separate and unrelated resignations of high-level members of their respective leadership teams on Tuesday.