<p>A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chicago">Chicago</a>-area man whose federal life sentence was commuted by former President Barack Obama has been charged with multiple attempted murder charges, according to law enforcement officials.</p>
<p>Illinois State Police announced that it had arrested and charged 54-year-old Alton D. Mills of Evergreen Park with three counts of Attempted Murder in connection with a shooting last week.</p>
<p>Police responded to an expressway shooting on May 14 on Interstate 57 and discovered that multiple rounds had been fired from the suspect&#8217;s vehicle striking the victim&#8217;s vehicle.</p>
<p>&#8220;The back-seat passenger in the victim vehicle was struck by gun fire and was transported to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries,&#8221; police said in a statement. &#8220;On May 16. 2023, after an extensive investigation the Cook County State&#8217;s Attorney&#8217;s Office approved three counts of Attempted Murder.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mills is being held without bond. Police said no further information will be released.</p>
<p>Mills was arrested in 1993 on federal charges for conspiracy &#8220;to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine base and cocaine and conspiracy to use communication facilities in the commission of drug trafficking offenses; use of communication facility to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base (two counts); [and] possession with intent to distribute cocaine base,&#8221; Obama&#8217;s Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/president-obama-grants-commutations-and-pardons-1">said</a> in a statement in 2015.</p>
<p>Due to previous drug convictions, Mills was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.</p>
<p>Many top Democrats in Washington, D.C., including Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/19/illinois-man-charged-for-illinois-expressway-shooting/">championed</a> Alton at the time. Durbin went as far as to give a speech about him on the Senate floor.</p>
<p>&#8220;An overlooked casualty in our ‘war on drugs’ are the men and women who have been convicted under disproportionately harsh mandatory minimum sentencing laws,&#8221; Durbin said. &#8220;One such man is Alton Mills, who served more than two decades of a mandatory life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense, a punishment even the sentencing judge disagreed with.&#8221;</p>
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