Wilmette Man Sentenced

Tribune:

A Wilmette man was sentenced to nine years in prison on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to attempted murder charges for running over his ex-girlfriend with a pickup truck as she jogged on a sidewalk in Wilmette two years ago.

Gilberto Archer, 22, of the 100 block of Dupee Place, apologized for the crime shortly before he was sentenced by Cook County Circuit Judge Garritt Howard at the Skokie courthouse.

"I wish I never did it," Archer told the court. "She's a good person."

I remember this story. A man in his 70's came out of his house and engaged the attacker. A young father pursued him, and a couple of workmen jumped out of their truck and tackled him. It was right before her New Trier graduation. She made it, walking in last on the arm of one of her classmates, slowly, to a standing ovation.