Posted on 02/02/2008 2:13:23 PM PST by RDTF
CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- A shooting at a suburban Chicago strip mall on Saturday claimed several victims, and the gunman remains at large, police said.
Authorities do not know the motive for the shooting at the Lane Bryant store, said Tinley Park police Sgt. T.J. Grady.
He would not confirm how many people were shot and killed, but would only say there were "multiple victims." No identities were released.
The Chicago Tribune, a CNN affiliate, reported that four people had been killed, quoting Will County Coroner Patrick O'Neil.
Grady told reporters the 911 call reporting the shooting came in at 10:44 a.m.
Stores in the strip mall were thoroughly searched, he said, and "it appears the offender has left the area."
The gunman was described as an African-American man, about 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing between 230 and 260 pounds, Grady said. He was wearing a waist-length black winter coat, a black cap and dark jeans.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Not much that hasn’t been covered in previous threads.
and there are now five women dead not four
lol - I didn’t see any of them.
This wouldn’t have happened if carrying concealed handguns was illegal in Illinois! < /sarc>
If the profile fits...
Prayers for the families.
Just reaffirms my dislike of malls and shopping in general.
In all the dispute about what should or shouldn't have been done at U.Va. the likelihood is that the weirdo would most likely NOT have set out to do the shooting in the first place if he knew that some people on that campus might be properly armed. The speculation about whether a person with a CCW could have stopped him before he killed so many would not have been even relevant.
I haven’t heard a word of this on FOXnews today. All their blather is about the Super Bowl.
Poor women. My condolences to the five families.
Hope they catch the nut.
I think it is illegal (don’t remember the details) in Chicago to even touch a weapon, or buy ammo, without a city issued license.
Not so in Texas, just bought another .45 to carry concealed. After this post, I am looking for a new holster. And I will be carrying 100% of the time. Of course, that is not going to guarantee my safety any more than my car insurance will prevent me for being in an accident.
(For those interested I bought a Taurus Millennium Pro, PT145. Have the PT111, but wanted .45——Old Corps Marine.)
BTTT.
I hope they catch the bastard who did this.
Here in Democrat controlled Illinois there is no CCW. The gun grabbers will, as usual spin this mass murder into a demand for more gun control. At least since the President signed federal law HR218 Illinois retired LEOs are finally allowed to carry, but local and state politicians have resisted that tooth & nail. They want everyone in Illinois to be disarmed except for themselves and their body guards.
CRIME UPDATE:
Police mum on survivor
February 4, 2008
By Kristen Schorsch, Isaac Wolf and Carly Mullady, Staff writers
“As police searched for the man who gunned down five women at a Tinley Park Lane Bryant store, sources revealed authorities are relying on help from a sixth victim who lived through the massacre.
The survivor is an employee of the store, according to a former co-worker of the slain office manager.
Other sources told the SouthtownStar the wounded woman is providing information that may help police find the killer.
Late Sunday, Tinley Park Police Sgt. T.J. Grady said a witness had come forward with new information about the suspect.
Grady said the witness saw a person matching the suspect’s description drive off from the scene in a red car at a high rate of speed. Grady said investigators would review area surveillance tapes in hopes of finding footage of the car.
Randi Rexford, of Orland Park, worked with murdered store manager Rhoda McFarland at the Lane Bryant from November 2006 until April 2007. Rexford said the sixth victim is a Lane Bryant employee who was with McFarland at the time of Saturday’s shooting.
Police responded to 911 calls at 10:44 a.m. Saturday to find the bodies of five women who had been herded into the back of the store and shot. They searched nearby stores, cars and neighborhoods by foot and helicopter, but the gunman had escaped.
The dead include store manager McFarland, 42, of Joliet; Connie R. Woolfolk, 37, a real estate broker from Flossmoor; Carrie Hudek Chiuso, 33, a social worker from Frankfort; Sarah Szafranski, 22, a paralegal and graduate of Oak Forest High School; and Jennifer L. Bishop, 34, a nurse from South Bend, Ind., who accompanied her husband to a convention in Tinley Park.
At least one of the women, Woolfolk, apparently tried to fight her attacker. Relatives who claimed her body from the morgue said she had blood under her nails and several scratches marked her body.
“She was beat up pretty bad. He must have pistol-whipped and beat them up pretty bad,” her brother Aaron Woolfolk said.
“She was fighting to stay with her kids,” added another brother, Jimmy, 30.
Identities of the five slain women were released to the public Sunday.”
Excerpt: http://www.southtownstar.com/news/775176,020408shootmain.article
What a brutal crime! My sympathies go out to all the family and friends of these innocent women.
I just heard on FOX that the lone survivor was grazed in the neck and played dead until the perp left the store. It was her call to 911 that got the police there so fast.
I hope they catch the puke who did this and take him down and out before they ever need an arrest and a trial.
The people of Illinois are sheep waiting for the slaughter. They had better rise up and demand their Second Amendment rights.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.