One Woman Survived Tinley Park Shooting

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Jerry Lai STR/AP

More details are emerging about the Tinley Park murders from this weekend. In addition to the five women who died, one woman was shot but survived and gave police a description of the gunman, who is still at large. Lane Bryant is offering $50,000 reward for information that leads to the shooter's arrest.

The mayor of Tinley Park has ordered the town's flags to fly at half-mast for the next five days, and an impromptu memorial has already sprung up outside the store. The victims have been identified as Sarah Szafranski, 22, of Oak Forest, a recent NIU grad; Connie R. Woolfolk, 37, of Flossmoor, a mother of two whose 10-year-old son has spina bifida; Jennifer L. Bishop, 34, of South Bend, Ind., a nurse and mother of three children under 8; Rhoda McFarland, 42, of Joliet, the store's manager, a former nurse practitioner in the Air Force, and a pastor; and Carrie Hudek Chiuso, 33, of Frankfort, a social worker in a high school. The survivor has not been identified.

The botched armed robbery took place Saturday morning, and police are asking anyone with information to contact the Tinley Park police department at (708) 444-5394. [S-T, CBS 2, Trib]

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Those crosses are anything but impromptu!
They're put there by this whackjob who does nothing but make these things & place them around the city.
No one seems to know how he makes a living.

He's a really sick man that gets off on murders & other kinds of tragic deaths, but claims he's memorializing them.
What total bullshit!

o.k. I'll bite. How do you know this Scooter?

o.k. I'll bite. How do you know this Scooter?

There have been articles about him in the papers.
He's a really strange man with some woodworking equipment & is one of those Christians that insists on forcing his message upon you, whether you want to hear it or not.
The first story about him was when the families of some murder victims were offended by crosses with the victim's names on it. The victims were Jewish & this nut had no idea why that would offend anyone. He finally went out & placed a weird six pointed star bags over the crosses.
That was at a multiple murder on Pershing Rd. several years ago.
He also went out & put a whole pile of them at the porch collapse on Wrightwood.

My guess is that he will end up like the guy who wore the multi-colored wig in the end zone of football games & held up the John 3:16 sign.
That loon is currently serving three consecutive life sentences in jail on kidnapping charges.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollen_Stewart

There was a TV news report about this guy too about a year or so ago, I think.

Nice. Yea I'm pretty grossed out now, which is saying something

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