Yeah, yeah Cline. If folks in chicago were allowed to defend themselves, it's unlikely your platoon would have been needed and there's a good possibility only the perp would've gone down.
The assault on an upper floor of the Citigroup Center, 500 W. Madison St., put the Ogilvie Transportation Center on lockdown below and stranded commuters there for much of the afternoon rush.
A man chained shut the doors of a downtown law office Friday, then fatally shot three men and held another person hostage before he was shot by a police sharpshooter.
The assault on an upper floor of the Citigroup Center, 500 W. Madison St., put the Ogilvie Transportation Center on lockdown below and stranded commuters there for much of the afternoon rush.
Sources said they believed the shooter was a disgruntled former client of the attorney he had asked to see. The attorney, who leased space in the offices of intellectual property law firm Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer, was one of the men slain, according to sources.
The gunman also killed a Wood Phillips attorney and another employee of the firm, the sources said. Another person, a woman, was shot in the foot and was being treated at a Chicago hospital Friday.
Police accounts of the killing shifted slightly through the evening.
Late Friday, police said the man drew a gun and ordered a security guard to take him up to the law offices. Earlier, police had said he brought the weapon into the law office secreted inside a manila envelope.
Police said the gunman—wearing a denim jacket, gray denim pants and an overcoat—arrived just before 3:15 p.m. He was armed with a snub-nosed revolver, a knife and a short-handled sledgehammer.
"Over the next several minutes, he shot four victims," said police Supt. Philip Cline.
The gunman held another man hostage for most of the next hour, until police SWAT team members shot the assailant in a tense hostage standoff in which the assailant may also have shot himself, Cline said. The gunman died at the scene.
A fourth shooting victim, a 57-year-old woman, was treated at Rush University Medical Center. The hostage was not harmed.
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Cline declined to identify the victims but said the suspect killed the man he had come to see.
Sources said the target of the attack was a 58-year-old lawyer who rented office space at Wood Phillips. He is the father of a Chicago police officer.He had practiced law for three decades, concentrating in patent law for the last 17 years, and was himself an inventor, according to his law firm's Web site.
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So there is competition for the Dumbest Comment award I see.
I'm sure fifty unskilled people opening fire would have produced NO unwarranted casualities.