Orland Park Police Chief Tim McCarthy: I never agreed to help ex-Metra boss O’Halloran (This McCarthy jumped in front of a bullet meant for Pres. Ronald Reagan when he was a Secret Service Agent)

PHOTO: Orland Park Police Chief Tim McCarthy laying on the ground after being shot - on the far right, McCarthy 30 years later.

Newly resigned Metra Board Chairman Brad O’Halloran announced last month that he’d enlisted Tim McCarthy — the Orland Park police chief best known for being shot while protecting President Ronald Reagan as a member of the Secret Service in 1981 — to help overhaul the agency’s troubled police department. But McCarthy says he told O’Halloran no, citing a possible conflict.

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