After Chicago cops arrested Alphonso Talley for allegedly robbing a Family Dollar store in Albany Park and violently attacking the store’s cashier Saturday morning, he told them he had swallowed baggies of drugs.

A seven-time convicted felon — who is also an active parole absconder and electronic monitoring escapee with cases pending for armed carjacking and armed robbery — is accused of murdering a Chicago police officer and gravely wounding the officer’s partner on Saturday morning as they guarded him at Swedish Covenant Hospital in Lincoln Square.

A man suspected of shooting two Chicago police officers inside a hospital room Saturday morning had been a fugitive for weeks, had two violent felony cases pending against him, had escaped from electronic monitoring and was listed as an absconder by the Illinois Department of Corrections, according to court records and multiple government sources.

Investigators have recovered an extra firearm after a robbery suspect undergoing a medical evaluation shot two Chicago police officers who were standing guard over him at Swedish Covenant Hospital in Lincoln Square on Saturday morning, CPD Supt. Larry Snelling said.

A robbery suspect being treated at Swedish Hospital shot two Chicago police officers who were guarding him on Saturday morning, then fled into the Lincoln Square neighborhood, according to multiple law enforcement sources. The gunman is now in custody.