LOMBARD, Ill. (WGN) – A Chicago man who robbed a Lombard tobacco shop at gunpoint in 2022 that led to the shooting of a Lombard police officer has been sentenced to 33 years in prison.
The DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office said 34-year-old Anthony Brown was sentenced Tuesday morning to 33 years on an aggravated battery – discharge of a firearm at an officer charge, and 21 years on an armed robbery with a firearm charge.
The aggravated battery – discharge of a firearm at an officer charge will be served at 85%, while the armed robbery with a firearm charge will be served at 50%; both sentences will run concurrently.
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Authorities said just after 4 p.m. on Dec. 8, 2022, officers with the Lombard Police Department were sent to the Pipes and Tobacco store, located in the 0-100 block of West Roosevelt Road, for reports of an armed robbery in progress.
When officers arrived, they encountered two men – later identified as Brown and Pierre Thompson – running from the store.
As Thompson approached two officers as they got out of their car, he shot at them with a gun that had been modified with a switch to allow it to fire as a fully automatic weapon. One of the responding officers was shot in the leg and returned fire, hitting and killing Thompson, according to investigators.
Meanwhile, authorities said Brown was taken into custody within seconds of the shooting.
(Photo: DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office)
Authorities later learned Brown and Thompson, who were both wearing masks during the robbery, went into the store and ordered an employee to open the cash register at gunpoint.
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After taking money from the cash register, investigators said Brown and Thompson brought the employee to the back of the store where they encountered the store’s owner. That’s when Brown and Thompson ordered both men to the ground.
The two suspects then hit the store owner on the head with a gun before stealing both of the men’s wallets and cell phones, along with nearly $600 from a file cabinet in the back of the store, according to officials.
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Brown and Thompson then ran out of the store, where they encountered the responding officers.
Two days after the shooting, Brown appeared in bond court where bond was denied. He remained in custody at the DuPage County Jail since then and entered a blind guilty plea on Oct. 14, 2025, before being sentenced Tuesday morning.
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