Posted on 02/04/2026 9:23:54 AM PST by TheDon
KANKAKEE COUNTY (WGN) — A suspect is in custody after he allegedly shot and killed a bar owner in Kankakee County on Monday morning.
According to the Kankakee County Sheriff’s Office, a 47-year-old man was apprehended as he left his Hammond, Indiana, home in the 6400 block of Rhode Island Avenue.
He is currently being held in Indiana, where he awaits extradition back to Illinois.
The deadly shooting unfolded inside of “The Line,” a bar located in rural Momence, near the Illinois-Indiana state line along Illinois Route 14, just before 11 a.m.
According to police, officers were first called to the scene after the victim, 30-year-old Courtney Drysdale, a Momence resident who owns the bar, was found unresponsive inside.
“She was just a really caring person and genuine. You can tell she loved what she did and she loved the patrons,” Jessica Carter, Drysdale’s friend, said.
Officers said Drysdale was preparing to open the bar on Monday when the suspect entered the establishment and demanded money.
Police said Drysdale complied with the demands, but the thief still shot her twice execution style.
Authorities were able to capture photos of the individual believed to have been responsible for the shooting after he attempted to remove a video recording device that was on the scene.
“I was in complete shock. I had to read it so many times to make sure I was reading the name correctly because I was just so baffled,” Carter said. “She was just great energy and she made coming into that hole in the wall bar in the middle of nowhere one of my favorite places to paint.”
Drysdale is survived by a young daughter and a fiancé.
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Drysdale is survived by a young daughter and a fiancé.
Execution not a robbery.
A few years back a young doctor was out with his wife when they were mugged. They complied and handed over their stuff but when the mugger went for the wife the husband, all honor to him, moved to protect her. And the muggers shot him.
There was a bunch of nonsense posted about how if they had just complied they would maybe have not been shot.
Yeah... about that....
And the fags in black robes think this piece of knuckledragging human debris deserves “due process”. A tall tree and a short piece of rope is what this SOB needs.
The criminal should get the electric chair.
I would like television to show these electrifying occasions.
> The criminal should get the electric chair. <
That’s both logical and just.
Which means every liberal everywhere will oppose it.
And as a side point, when a piece of garbage is executed, liberals (including the Pope) will whine and complain. Funny how none of them mention the terrible agony the innocent murder victim must have endured.
True.
No description of the suspect. Had to do a lot of digging to find a story with the suspect’s picture. Found it. Take a guess.
“Funny how none of them mention the terrible agony the innocent murder victim must have endured.”
Nor the terrible agony of future victims of murderers prevented. Execution is the only sure response for murder.
“Just give them what they want” still held a lot of currency, maybe into the 1980s. It was never a very good idea, but they could say it with a straight face, and the normies could convince themselves they were “safe” even with a gun stuck in their face, so long as they complied.
The implication, usually unstated, was “you had it coming” naturally, if one was wounded or killed in the course of an armed robbery. It’s better to cooperate.
And, it might be. And, it might not be. Therein lies the problem with “cooperation”.
Them.
And he’ll be released in a few months. He was just trying to feed his family.
What’s the suspect’s name?
Is his name not mentioned because he might be an illegal alien?
And they're right. Even a defendant who seems to be the vilest of criminals, allegedly caught in the act of the worst imaginable crime, still deserves the opportunity to face his accusers, to present whatever arguments he may have to a jury of his peers, to make the State PROVE its case against him.
That's not to protect vile criminals. That's to protect YOU, when you're falsely accused of some crime.
Courtney Drysdale was just trying to feed her family. The honest, old-fashioned way. Too bad she wasn't able to eliminate the robber with a load of high-velocity lead. Now we have to put some dude on trial, prove that he's the scumbag that murdered Courtney, and house him in the Graybar Hotel for the rest of his miserable life.
It's much simpler when crime victims can defend themselves with lethal force.
Gun-control politicians are even worse scumbags than this accused murderer is accused of being.
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