CHICAGO (WGN) — A man accused of his involvement in the deadly smash-and-grab last week on Chicago's Magnificent Mile posed for a picture with Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker just days earlier.

Kellen McMiller, a 35-year-old Chicago man, is one of seven people charged in connection with the Thursday, Sept. 11 incident at the Louis Vuitton store near the 100 block of E. Walton Street. McMillan faces felony counts of murder, burglary, theft, and three counts of fugitive from justice with an out-of-state warrant.

Less than a week before the incident, Pritzker praised McMiller for his work as a peacekeeper. Both were pictured together in an image taken on Friday, Sept. 5, as Pritzker met with the peacekeepers in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood.

The governor's team referred to the group as "tru

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