Next to the man was a black container that looked like a discarded container of antifreeze, he said.
Gunpowder in a bulk keg? Did it look something like this?:
Posted on 09/14/2010 2:47:00 PM PDT by STARWISE
Evanston police are investigating an early morning explosion that left one man dead Tuesday and led to the evacuation of residents and the closure of a middle school.
Police secured the area around the Nichols Middle School and Fitzsimmons Park, where the decapitated body of an unidentified male and an explosive device were found shortly before 6 a.m.
At Tuesday afternoon news conference, Evanston Police Commander Tom Guenther said authorities were taking the explosion “extremely seriously’’ but did not yet understand what the bomber’s intentions were.
Police refused to identify the man who died and said they had not determined a motive yet in the incident. Police said it was too early to determine whether the incident was as suicide or not.
They also refused to say whether the man was decapitated — despite reports from eye witnesses who saw his body.
Dale Wyatt, who lives near the park, was walking his dog when he discovered the body of a man that he estimated was between the ages of 25 and 30.
He said the man’s body was lying on a walkway close to the park’s tennis courts.
“At first I thought it was a joke. I thought it was a mannequin I found,’’ Wyatt said.
“He had no head, no nothing above the neck.’’
The man’s body had no burn marks but there was a strong smell of gunpowder, he said.
Next to the man was a black container that looked like a discarded container of antifreeze, he said.
Authorities searched a unit in a nearby apartment building where the man apparently lived.
Guenther said FBI forensics experts will examine the man’s computer for clues.
“No suicide note was found,’’ he said.
The dead man was “known’’ to another Illinois police agency, Guenther said, which is now assisting the investigation. He declined to say what had brought the dead man to earlier police attention.
Nichols Middle School, 800 Greenleaf St., was closed for the day and will likely remain shut Wednesday, police said.
Guenther said police received a call about 3:56 a.m., from residents who reported hearing a large explosion. Officers checked out the area, he said, but initially found nothing.
“The exact location of the explosion from citizen reports wasn’t determined, it was very general,’’ he said.
At about 5:48 a.m., Wyatt alerted police after he found the body and saw what looked like an explosive device next to it.
Evanston police responded and determined that “it could be an explosive device’’ and moved to secure the area, Guenther said.
He said officers then went door to door to set up a perimeter and also contacted the Cook County Bomb Squad, which detonated the device found at the scene around 9:30 a.m.
Evanston/Skokie School District 65 said in a written statement that “at this time, there is no indication that it is school-related.’’
Evanston Ald. Donald Wilson said the victim was not of school age.
John Shelley, a neighbor who lives across from the school, said he was dozing off in front of the TV around 4 a.m. when he heard a loud explosion.
Wyatt said he was asleep around 4 a.m. when his dog Buddha “kept just whimpering and whining. After about a half hour I said ‘OK, fine, I’ll take you outside, buddy.’ ’’
He said they were walking near the fence of the park when something caught his dog's nose.
“I thought it was a rabbit or something,’’ Wyatt said.
Police said it was too early to determine whether the incident was as suicide or not.Just before he tested the automated beheading feature, he shouted at the school, "don't laugh, you're next, infidels!"
ROFL!
Gotta say it .. and isn’t it so sick and
disgusting our world has come to this, but
my first thought was .. practice.
We had such sweet, innocent childhoods .. so
carefree... so all-American and safe. It’s
so frickin’ tragic that today’s and tomorrow’s
kids will never know the childhoods without these
morbid thoughts and fears that we did .. DAMN
those evil savages.
A primacord necklace would be fast and painfree!. I’ve heard that when one of the vest bombers goes off they often find the head in pretty good shape, just well separated from the pelvic area!
OK - This is the last time I’m gonna warn you. NEVER light a short fuse off your cigarette !
Musta been the first guy who voted ‘No’ when polled about voting Rahm for Mayor.
Hey Leni! If I recall correctly, Main is parallel to Greenleaf about a quarter mile apart.
Hey Dale! Add Duncan MacLeod to the suspect list.
The school is a few blocks down the street from my house, I had to detour around the condoned off area to pick up my wife at the Main Street Metra stop.
The park and public tennis courts adjacent to the school grounds are a block from commercial area of older stores and shops, in a mostly residential areas of older homes. It’s considered a good neighborhood, where for example many homes which were extensively upgraded during the early part of the decade. It’s the sort of neighborhood where when I walk my wife to the station in the morning there are a lot of dog walkers, and runners and other commuters walking to the Metra and “L” stations out and about.
Anything is possible of course, but to the extent the neighborhood suggests the type of person involved, my money is on a mentally disturbed loner rather than a criminal or terrorist conspiracy.
True that!
Oh my ..
They’re saying he lived in the neighborhood,
and were checking his home.
Have you yet heard anything about that .. or have
you since found out that you knew who he was ?
““No suicide note was found,’’ he said.”
Suicide by decapitation. How novel?
Next to the man was a black container that looked like a discarded container of antifreeze, he said.
Gunpowder in a bulk keg? Did it look something like this?:
The source article has been updated, now has name and some info:
Colin Dalebroux, 21
http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/2707076,evanston-school-emergency-091410.article
What _appears_ to be his Facebook page is still up at the moment. Pretty typical late-teen likes and interests for our modern culture, but no obvious gang or jihadi stuff.
Leni
Somewhere, a family of raccoons are enjoying their unexpected feast.
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http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/09/witness-decapitated-body-found-near-evanston-school.html
“Headless body and pipe bomb near school rattle Evanston”
September 14, 2010 11:02 PM | 48 Comments | UPDATED STORY
SNIPPET: “After disabling the bomb, investigators were left trying to determine why a man identified as Colin Dalebroux, 21, had two explosive devices.
Police said Dalebroux “was known” to another police agency in Illinois, but offered no details.
They got residents to evacuate an apartment building a block away, at 1012 Main St., where Dalebroux lived, and said they were working with the FBI to examine information stored on his computer.”
It may be.
I checked facebook yesterday and that page is the only one on facebook with an exact name match.
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