Officer Killed by Injured Suspect in Hospital:  A sheriff's deputy of a small Minnesota town was killed early Sunday at a St. Cloud Hospital when an injured suspect being treated there grabbed his gun and shot him.  Fox News reports that 60-year-old Steven Martin Sandberg of the Aitkin County Sheriff's Department was asked by the hospital to monitor 50-year-old Danny Leroy Hammond, a suspect charged with kidnapping, assault and terroristic threats against his wife and being treated for an undisclosed condition at the hospital.  A struggle ensued between Sandberg and Hammond, who was not handcuffed, and several shots were fired before security guards entered and subdued Hammond with a Taser.  Hammond became unresponsive and died after being taken into custody.  Sandberg had been with the sheriff's department since 1981.

Man Charged with Murder after Calling TV Station:  A Milwaukee man was charged with second-degree murder after calling a Milwaukee television news station and providing a "disturbingly" detailed story of a cold case involving a seventh-grade girl who was murdered over three decades ago.  The AP reports that 50-year-old Jose Ferreira was arrested and charged with the death of 13-year-old Carrie Ann Jopek, who went missing in 1982 while walking home from school and discovered deceased under a porch 17 months later.  The news station, WISN 12 News, didn't elaborate on the details given by Ferreira but alerted police because of what they described as "several red flags."  It is still unclear why Ferreira, who was a teenager at the time of Jopek's disappearance and murder, chose to call the station.  He made his first court appearance over the weekend.

More Carnage in Chicago:  Chicago saw another bloody weekend with 20 wounded and three killed, including a three-year-old boy who was fatally shot in the head accidentally by his six-year-old brother.  The Chicago Tribune reports that as of early Monday, the number of people fatally shot in the city has climbed to 404, 55 more than during the same period last year and 40 more than the year prior.  At least 2,434 people have been shot in the city this year, 347 more than in 2014 and 583 more than in 2013.

Senate Judiciary Takes Up ACLU-Supported Sentencing Bill:  The Senate Judiciary Committee will review a so-called compromise proposal today called the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015.  Among the Act's supporters are longtime criminal defendant advocates including the ACLU, the American Bar Association, the NAACP, the Sentencing Project, the recently created Brennan Center and the ultra-liberal Center for American Progress.  The narrative around sentencing reform has created some very strange bedfellows.  Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is a co-author of the bill (S2123) with Dick Durbin, Charles Schumer and Patrick Leahy,   A CJLF analysis. of the bill notes that it would reduce sentences for a number of criminals, including drug offenders who used a gun and habitual federal felons who used guns. These reforms would apply retroactively, leaving unelected federal judges with broad discretion to determine which inmates should be released from prison.