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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Jon Seidel

Downstate man gets 4 1⁄2 years for assaulting officer on Jan. 6, still faces murder charges in Skokie woman’s death

Federal prosecutors say this image depicts the assault by Shane Woods on a U.S. Capitol police officer on Jan. 6, 2021. (U.S. District Court)

A federal judge handed a 41⁄2-year prison sentence Wednesday to a man who assaulted a U.S. Capitol police officer and a cameraman on Jan. 6, 2021, claimed he had not paid taxes on $150,000 in annual income since 2017, and is separately charged with the murder of a Skokie woman.

The feds say Shane Woods has exhibited a “deadly indifference to human life.” They called his actions during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot “as cowardly as they were violent and opportunistic.”

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