Overview
- DuPage County Judge Joseph Bugos ordered three consecutive eight-year sentences, totaling 24 years, with at least 85% to be served before parole eligibility.
- Meco Norris, 30, was convicted on Dec. 11 of three counts of aggravated battery with a firearm causing severe bodily injury after a bench trial.
- Prosecutors said Norris shot a man three times at Safari Land during a children’s birthday party in front of dozens of children and parents.
- The victim was struck in the chest, right shoulder and right arm, was hospitalized, and has since recovered, according to authorities.
- Norris fled and hid the gun nearby, was arrested the next day at his Chicago home, and has remained in custody since a $1 million bail hearing.