A man was sentenced to 9 1/2 years in prison this week after pleading guilty to plowing his vehicle into a group of people having a picnic in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood in 2021.
At a hearing Wednesday, Timothy Nielsen was sentenced by Cook County Judge Shelley Sutker-Dermer after pleading guilty to attempted murder in the incident on Saturday, May 1, 2021. A woman was left critically injured when Nielsen jumped the curb and went for the crowd with his pickup truck.
Nielsen will receive credit for 999 days already served in jail…