Very early in this thread I said I thought this would be a case of the killer having known one of the victims. Then police said it looked like a robbery gone bad, and I felt stupid for that prediction. Now it looks like the cops are looking into the angle I mentioned, after all:
http://snipurl.com/nydnlanebryant
Steve I totally agree with you this is exactly what we have been saying one of the victims knew this guy. I am hoping the 6th women that lived can say whether one of the victims knew this man. It just didn't make since on a busy Saturday morning esp with sales going on in the store that he would go in and kill all these women. The amount of Cash he got was no more then $200. maybe he was after the credit cards who knows here is the latest in the investigation..............
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6th victim alive, sources say
Woman gives description of Tinley Park gunman
By Tara Malone and David Heinzmann
February 4, 2008
Police omitted one salient fact in their public statements following a shooting Saturday that killed five women at a Tinley Park clothing store: There was a sixth woman shot, and she lived, according to sources.
The woman, a store employee, suffered a graze wound to the neck and was left for dead but made a 911 call during the attack, the sources said.
She was later able to provide police with a description that could soon lead to a sketch of the gunman, the sources said.
Family, friends mourn victims of Tinley Park department store shooting
Tinley Park police on Sunday released the names of the five women killed but otherwise remained extremely tight-lipped about the details of what they called a "robbery gone bad." They did not officially confirm that there was a sixth victim.
They said they were pressing their search for an African-American man about 5 foot 9 and 260 pounds, dressed in black clothing.
Eric Woolfolk, who identified the body of his sister, Connie R. Woolfolk, said she was shot in the head. She also had bruises and her hands had been tied behind her back.
"He might have tortured her," he said. "He couldn't possibly have thought that [store] would be a good place to rob. This person is obviously a sick person."
Eric Woolfolk said authorities told him the gunman had made off with about $200 in cash and some valuables.
"This incident appears to stem from an armed robbery attempt which was interrupted which led to the five murders," Tinley Park Police Chief Michael O'Connell said. Police had previously said the gunman led the five women into the backroom of the store, killed them, then walked out the front door and disappeared.
****MORE AT SITE*****
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-tinley_manhunt_04feb04,0,2490656.story
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Family, friends mourn victims of Tinley Park department store shooting
***NOTE*** ~~This is quite detailed about each victim.~~More info about the women who were killed., could one of these women known the attacker murderer??.........
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The five women came to the suburban clothing store for such ordinary reasons.
One, the mother of a disabled child, wanted to find something nice to wear for a rare girls' night out.
Another needed work clothes for her first post-college job.
One was choosing an outfit to wear at a gathering of old college friends later that night, and yet another was shopping, reportedly while in town with her husband for a conference.
And the final victim, the manager of the Tinley Park Lane Bryant store, came in to help on a busy Saturday, even though she had not been scheduled to be there.
Police on Sunday identified the five women killed in the shopping center shooting a day earlier as Connie R. Woolfolk, 37, of Flossmoor; Jennifer L. Bishop, 34, of South Bend, Ind.; Rhoda McFarland, 42, of Joliet; Sarah Szafranski, 22, of Oak Forest; and Carrie Hudek Chiuso, 33, of Frankfort.
They were five women of different races and walks of life, strangers bound only by an unthinkable fate that brought them to the clothing store within an hour of its opening.
Rhoda McFarland
Store manager Rhoda McFarland knew her employees would be stretched on Saturday after the corporate office last week mailed customers fliers promoting a big $9.99 clearance sale. Rather than force her staff to go it alone, the Joliet woman decided to pitch in.
She showed up for work Saturday morning, a move that would not have surprised her subordinates, former employee Sandra McGhee said. McFarland often popped into the store on her day off to see if she could help behind the register or assist customers on the floor.
"We would laugh and tell her that she should enjoy her time off, but she loved her job and the people she worked with," McGhee said. "She would go the extra mile."
One was choosing an outfit to wear at a gathering of old college friends later that night, and yet another was shopping, reportedly while in town with her husband for a conference.
And the final victim, the manager of the Tinley Park Lane Bryant store, came in to help on a busy Saturday, even though she had not been scheduled to be there.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-tinleyvictims_04feb04,0,619984.story
