In the morning of August 7th, 2022, Christian Littrell was arrested on a warrant for traffic related offenses by Rockford Police Department officers.
Christian was transported to the Winnebago County jail where we had to stay pending a bond hearing with judge Phillip Nicolosi.
According to a memorandum released by states attorney J. Hanley on August 8th, Christian barely moved in his bed and threw up multiple times on the floor.
The next day, Christian was transported to the medical wing of the jail in a camera monitored room.
After being transported, the memorandum states Christian can be seen “repositioning in bed” multiple times from 11:17am - 5:30pm.
From 5:30pm to 8:58pm Christian did not move at all.
Michael Marchini was the Corrections Officer overseeing the medical wing from 5:56pm to 8:58pm.
He never saw Christian move. Marchini stated that he believed Christian to be sleeping but when he hadn’t moved in three hours, Marchini decided to enter the room.
Marchini attempted to wake Christian up but did not get any response. He then called a medical code and officers attempted CPR.
At 9:16pm Christian is put on a stretcher and taken from his cell to Swedish American hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Christian was at least the second of five deaths inside the Winnebago county jail that was investigated by the Winnebago Boone County Integrity Task Force in 2022.
This was the twenty-eighth case investigated and justified by the Winnebago Boone County Integrity Task Force.
It was the eighth deadly force incident in the 2020’s and the 17th since Tom McNamara took mayoral office.