Man charged with attempted murder in Chicago expressway shooting

Lloyd Wickliffe (Illinois State Police, Multiplottr)

CHICAGO — Prosecutors have charged a man with shooting at an occupied vehicle while driving on a Chicago interstate this week. The accused man recently completed parole for a Class X felony gun case and was charged with attempted murder, a case that he pleaded down to a lesser charge.

Illinois State Police troopers responded to calls of an expressway shooting on I-57 near 115th Street around 6 a.m. on Sunday, the agency said. They met with a man who reported that another driver opened fire on him as they traveled south on the highway.

ISP investigators conducted an “extensive” investigation that identified Lloyd Wickliffe, 44, of Alsip, as the shooter, the agency said.

Wickliffe, driving a black Chevy Impala, pulled up on the victim’s passenger side and began yelling at the driver, a criminal complaint said. Wickliffe slowed his car, extended his arm out the driver’s window while holding a handgun, and fired about five shots at the man’s Nissan Frontier, according to the complaint.

Court records show Wickliffe has been charged with attempted murder before. In 2009, he was accused of shooting a victim in the 8800 block of South Throop, according to a CPD database. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of aggravated battery by discharge of a firearm in 2011 and received an eight-year sentence.

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