Sean Popps, who was arrested 12 times by Chicago police last year before he was finally taken off the street for violently attacking a cardiologist in a Northwestern Memorial Hospital parking garage elevator, will be back on the streets soon.
Court records show Popps pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated battery in a public place for the November 2, 2025, attack and received a two-year sentence from Judge Aleksandra Gillespie. But Illinois law cuts that sentence in half, and Popps also receives credit for 360 days spent in custody. After initially being found unfit to stand trial by the court’s Forensic Clinical Services, he underwent treatment at an inpatient facility and was found fit last month, records show.
Chicago police arrested Popps a dozen times in 2025, almost all for alleged trespassing or property damage on or near Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Streeterville campus. Those arrests followed seven in 2024, again mostly on or near the hospital grounds. Records show he was also arrested at the facility twice in 2020, twice in 2021, once in 2022, and once in 2023…