ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Malik Trotter, the suspect in the killing of Rockford K9 Nyx, faces additional charges of battery and threatening police officers while recovering from a gunshot wound at a local hospital.
Trotter, 28, is accused of attempted murder of a Rockford Police officer and of killing the K9 on January 28th .
In a shootout with pursuing police, Trotter was reportedly shot in the leg and subsequently hospitalized.
New charges, filed this week, allege Trotter spit in an officer’s face while being secured to a hospital bed for being disorderly, threatened an officer’s life, and then said he would “batter, shoot and break the neck” of an officer who was on guard duty, court records show.
He has now been charged with aggravated battery and 2 counts of threatening a public official.
Trotter was charged with five counts of Attempted First Degree Murder, Aggravated Discharge of a Firearm at a Police Officer, Armed Violence, Felon in Possession of a Firearm, Aggravated Battery of a Police Officer, and Killing a Police Animal, for the January 28th incident.