Distributing Company in Morton Grove-he’d never heard anything like that sound. Though he was surrounded by music at the time-he had a warehouse job with the M.S. “It sounded like TNT going off, there was flashing neon lights-and then the door closed,” Fox says. On a Sunday night in August 1977, Fox and a couple friends were walking north on Halsted Street in Lincoln Park when someone opened the front door of a squat A-frame nearby and a burst of noise rushed out.
The Sex Pistols rewired lots of young minds in 1976, when they began their scorched-earth climb to infamy in London-and within little more than a year, their music had also changed the life of a 24-year-old in Chicago named Terry Fox.
#CHICAGO GAY BAR SHOOTING SERIES#
Sherwood, who says his tibia and fibula were broken during the attack, remains confined to a wheelchair and has missed at least a month of work. He suffered fractures to both cheekbones and damage to his trachea. Once he fell, the assailants turned to Stacha, who they allegedly kicked repeatedly as he lay on the ground. He claims his leg was kicked and broken while he was still standing. A bouncer intervened and got the men outside, but Sherwood says only seconds later he was attacked. One man from that group fell into Sherwood, who pushed him off, leading to a brief scuffle in which he says he was punched in the face. Injuries sustained by Tomasz Stacha, left, and John Sherwood after a September 2018 attack outside the Andersonville bar (Courtesy Cavanagh Law Group) That group allegedly included Elkins and Jones. They recalled going to a gay bar in Andersonville, with two other friends that night when another group of heavily intoxicated men entered. Sherwood, 53, and Stacha, 44, have been partners together for 14 years and currently live in the Edgewater neighborhood. 18 pending the outcome of an internal investigation, according to a village spokesman. A CPD spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday. “He came out of that bar in a fit of rage and attacked these two men in an unprovoked fashion because he was a police officer and knew he could get away with it.”Įlkins is named in the lawsuit along with Jones and two other men who were with the alleged assailants during the attack. “Elkins, on the evening of September 29, acted with impunity,” attorney Tim Cavanagh, who represents Sherwood and Stacha, told media Thursday. John Sherwood and his partner Tomasz Stacha filed a civil lawsuit last month alleging CPD Sergeant Eric Elkins and Oak Park Officer Dwayne Jones are responsible for a late night beating that left both Sherwood and Stacha with multiple broken bones.ĭespite being identified more than a month ago as the main assailant on the night of the attack, Elkins has not faced any criminal charges.