KANKAKEE — The brother of Xandria Harris agreed to plead guilty to obstructing justice for his role in the Dec. 29, 2021, murder of Bradley Police Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic and
At the end of a lengthy hearing Monday, Judge Casey Costigan sentenced 44-year-old Michael Bakana of Normal to 110 years in the Department of Corrections.
A hearing for post-trial motions and possible sentencing had been scheduled for Thursday after Michael Bakana’s May 12 murder conviction by a McLean County jury.
The jury in the Michael Bakana murder trial reached its verdict after about two hours of deliberations Friday. Bakana was accused of shooting two women in downtown Bloomington in 2021.
A dispute outside a Bloomington bar turned deadly in January 2021 after Michael Bakana fired "10 shots at two drunk girls,” prosecutor David Fitt told jurors Wednesday in opening statements in Bakana’s murder trial.