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.