[Southsider2k12]

Unconfirmed reports over the police scanner this morning of the honey bee killer was spotted over in the Pines on Railroad Ave. This is unconfirmed, but being heard on the police scanner. There was also a report of a spotting on Hwy's 6 and 2 earlier this morning.

Be aware and be safe!

[NDReporter]

Unconfirmed reports over the police scanner this morning of the honey bee killer was spotted over in the Pines on Railroad Ave. This is unconfirmed, but being heard on the police scanner. There was also a report of a spotting on Hwy's 6 and 2 earlier this morning.

Be aware and be safe!

WTF is a honey bee killer? The guy who did the shootings over in Lowell etc.? I've not once heard him called that....

He only asked one guy about bees. He asked the construction worker about wood. That's weird.

[Southsider2k12]

WTF is a honey bee killer? The guy who did the shootings over in Lowell etc.? I've not once heard him called that....

He only asked one guy about bees. He asked the construction worker about wood. That's weird.

That was what they were calling him yesterday on WBBM AM yesterday. It is the guy from Lowell and Beecher.

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nwi.com is folowing it closely. lots and lots and lots of rumors. skools closed in lowle; football practice halted at south central.

[NDReporter]

nwi.com is folowing it closely. lots and lots and lots of rumors. skools closed in lowle; football practice halted at south central.

N-D will have the story on South Central...still no confirmation on Pines.

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so we can explect that article tomorrow or saturday?

[NDReporter]

so we can explect that article tomorrow or saturday?

It'll cost you 75 cents to find out Unless you're one of those looky loos.

[Southsider2k12]

WBBM radio is reporting this guy was caught in Will County Illinois.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2010/10/08/sus...shooting-spree/

[Ang]

It was a cop from Lynnwood , IL

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Glad I saved 75 cents... some times stories of imediate public safety need to be released quikly.

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/ar...b7a9f0d3ba.html

Lynwood cop in custody in connection with bistate shootings
By Lauri Harvey Keagle lauri.keagle@nwi.com, (219) 852-4311 nwi.com | Posted: Friday, October 8, 2010 12:12 pm | (60) Comments

CRETE | A Lynwood police officer is being questioned as a person of interest in this week's bistate shootings after police served a warrant for his arrest at his Crete home Friday morning, officials said.

Brian Dorian, 37, was arrested at his home in the 900 block of Arlington Lane in unincorporated Crete Township, the Will County prosecutor's office said.

Dorian is a police officer in Lynwood and formerly served as a Lansing police officer.

He left the Lansing police force due to the requirement that officers live within the village limits, police sources said.

While off duty in 2006, he was involved in a crash that killed Dylan D. Drapeau, 17, of Crete. He was never charged with a crime in connection with the accident, but was cited for speeding.

David Palmer, who served as Lynwood police chief from 1994 to 2008, said Friday morning he was shocked and saddened at the news of Dorian being taken into custody in connection with the shootings.

Dorian served as a police officer under Palmer twice, leaving for a brief stint as a Lansing officer before returning to the Lynwood force.

Palmer said Dorian was on disability for a bad shoulder for the last year and a half. As an officer, Palmer said Dorian was one of the best.

"He was a good, investigative policeman and I never had any complaints about him from the public," Palmer said. "When he came back after the crash, he was a little more subdued, he was a little more reclusive."

No formal charges in this week's shootings have been filed against Dorian at this time, the Will County prosecutor's office said. Calls to current Lynwood Police Chief Russell Pearson were not returned early Friday.

Lansing Police Chief Dennis Murrin said Friday afternoon Dorian worked for his department from 2003 to 2005.

"We never had any disciplinary action against him," Murrin said, declining further comment on Friday's developments.

Lake County Sheriff Rogelio "Roy" Dominguez said any charges coming from Lake County would be attempted murder and robbery charges, but Lake County officials are deferring to Will County in their investigation.

[NDReporter]

Send your viewpoint to editor Chris Schable at cschable@thenewsdispatch.com...I can't help you on that one!

Glad I saved 75 cents... some times stories of imediate public safety need to be released quikly.

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/ar...b7a9f0d3ba.html

Lynwood cop in custody in connection with bistate shootings
By Lauri Harvey Keagle lauri.keagle@nwi.com, nwi.com | Posted: Friday, October 8, 2010 12:12 pm | (60) Comments

CRETE | A Lynwood police officer is being questioned as a person of interest in this week's bistate shootings after police served a warrant for his arrest at his Crete home Friday morning, officials said.

Brian Dorian, 37, was arrested at his home in the 900 block of Arlington Lane in unincorporated Crete Township, the Will County prosecutor's office said.

Dorian is a police officer in Lynwood and formerly served as a Lansing police officer.

He left the Lansing police force due to the requirement that officers live within the village limits, police sources said.

While off duty in 2006, he was involved in a crash that killed Dylan D. Drapeau, 17, of Crete. He was never charged with a crime in connection with the accident, but was cited for speeding.

David Palmer, who served as Lynwood police chief from 1994 to 2008, said Friday morning he was shocked and saddened at the news of Dorian being taken into custody in connection with the shootings.

Dorian served as a police officer under Palmer twice, leaving for a brief stint as a Lansing officer before returning to the Lynwood force.

Palmer said Dorian was on disability for a bad shoulder for the last year and a half. As an officer, Palmer said Dorian was one of the best.

"He was a good, investigative policeman and I never had any complaints about him from the public," Palmer said. "When he came back after the crash, he was a little more subdued, he was a little more reclusive."

No formal charges in this week's shootings have been filed against Dorian at this time, the Will County prosecutor's office said. Calls to current Lynwood Police Chief Russell Pearson were not returned early Friday.

Lansing Police Chief Dennis Murrin said Friday afternoon Dorian worked for his department from 2003 to 2005.

"We never had any disciplinary action against him," Murrin said, declining further comment on Friday's developments.

Lake County Sheriff Rogelio "Roy" Dominguez said any charges coming from Lake County would be attempted murder and robbery charges, but Lake County officials are deferring to Will County in their investigation.

[Southsider2k12]

They are now releasing the guy, saying that he couldn't have done it. Back to square one.

[Southsider2k12]

I was wondering the other day what was going on with this, and then I saw this story.

http://www.post-trib.com/news/2956280,new-...ack1209.article

With no suspect in custody, 'Honeybee' victims' relatives angry
Still no suspects in shootings along Indiana-Illinois border
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December 9, 2010
BY MICHAEL TARM, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Nearly two months after a Lynwood, Ill., police officer was wrongly accused in a series of shootings that terrorized residents along the Illinois-Indiana border, authorities acknowledged Wednesday the trail of the real gunman has gone cold.

Investigators concede they have made little headway in their investigation into the man who killed one person and injured two others on Oct. 5, asking one of the victims about honeybees before opening fire. There are no suspects, no revamped theories and no updated composite sketches.

"We've had over 600 pieces of information -- from e-mail, letters, word of mouth -- that we've followed up," Lake County Sheriff Roy Dominguez told The AP Wednesday. "In the end, it didn't lead anywhere. We don't have a person of interest or a suspect."

Ken Kaupas, a spokesman for investigators at the Will County, Ill., Sheriff's office, said there had been little movement in the investigation there, either.

The absence of any arrest fueled water-cooler speculation, including that the shooter may be from another part of the country and was just passing through at the time. Dominguez said authorities still suspect someone local.

The lack of progress in the investigation has also angered some relatives of victims.

"The investigation's been slow and lacking," said Kristina Garza, the aunt of Joshua Garza, shot in the head as he worked on a construction site. "A lot more could be done."

Wrongly accused local police officer Brian Dorian, cleared after detectives verified he'd been home logged onto his computer the morning of the attacks, also is eager for the case to be solved, his attorney Bob O'Dekirk said.

"There is concern that there's an element of the population that'll be suspicious of him -- until there's another arrest," O'Dekirk said. "He's gotten hate mail. He's hoping his character hasn't been permanently damaged."

Among Kristina Garza's compliants is that investigators have not yet interviewed her 19-year-old nephew, who remains hospitalized although capable of answering questions, she said.

"There's no justifiable reason that they have not interviewed him," she said. "More and more is coming back to him. He says, 'I can see that man's face."

At the very least, her nephew may be able to update what is now a rough composite drawing of a suspect with few distinguishing features, a baseball cap pulled down to his eyes.

Kaupas said investigators have contacted Joshua Garza but that medical constraints limited the extent to which they could interview the teen.

The investigation is especially difficult, he added, because there are no apparent links between the shooter and victims -- connections that are typically vital in tracking suspects.

"Random shootings are the toughest to solve," Kaupas said. "It is the most difficult because, where do you start?"

None of that means the case has been put on the shelf, he said.

"It's still the No. 1 priority case for the sheriff's department," he said. He added that "leads are being developed" in the case, though he declined to elaborate.

Another attack possible

The shooting began around 10:30 a.m. Oct. 5 at a Will County construction site. The gunman shot and killed Rolando Alonso, 45, of Hammond, and wounded Garza, of Dyer.

One worker escaped into a plowed cornfield behind the ranch house that's undergoing renovations at the site. He helped an artist draw the composite sketch.

Later that day, farmer Keith Dahl, 64, was wounded near Lowell.

The gunman hasn't struck again, easing some of the anxiety in the days following the attacks. But the possibility that he will strike again looms as long as he remains free.

Sadly, it's possible that only another attack would offer up fresh clues leading to the gunman, said John Shelhart, the chief of police in Lowell.

"And that is a realistic possibility -- that the person will strike again," he said.

The wanted-poster sketches of the suspect remain up around the village. And officers also still keep a lookout for light blue Chevrolet pickup trucks similar to the one the gunman drove.

Shelhart's officers occasionally field calls from people who believe they can help, including someone in California who thought they knew the gunman. They didn't.

'Someone knows'

Dominguez said he doesn't agree with the theories that the gunman lives in some other part of the country and was in transit at the time of the shootings. Whoever executed the attacks clearly knew how to use local roads to avoid capture, he said.

"We believe he's someone local," Dominguez said. "Someone knows this person from the sketch or his vehicle. And we hope someone comes forward."

But the relative trickle of promising leads in recent weeks is reflected in the drastically reduced manpower dedicated to the October shootings.

After the attack there were up to 25 full-time investigators in the Lake County Sheriff's office alone, whereas there are now just three, Dominguez said.

While the investigation hasn't moved forward much, area residents don't appear as gripped by fear as in the hours and days after the attacks.

"As time goes by, people move on to other things," said Bob Barber, the village administrator in Beecher, Ill., near where one shooting left a construction worker dead.

Kristina Garza said her fear is that, if investigators don't push as hard as possible now, any lingering leads may dry up and this particular bad guy may never get caught.

"The more time goes on, the less likely that they'll catch the guy," she said.

But Chief Shelhart, for one, refuses to believe the gunman will get away with the crime.

"Sometimes these things take longer," he said. "But do I think he'll get caught? Yes -- eventually."

Copyright 2010 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/c...0,4944065.story

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Will County sheriff's police are looking closely at a would-be robber killed Saturday as the "honeybee gunman" suspect in an October shooting spree that killed one and wounded two others in Illinois and Indiana, sources told the Tribune.

The robber's vehicle matches the description of the gunman's 1992 light-blue Chevy truck, and the gun used in the Saturday attack at L.A. Tan in southwest suburban Orland Park is a revolver of the same caliber used in the October shootings, sources said Sunday.

The would-be robber lived south of rural Beecher, near where a man known as the "honeybee gunman" opened fire on three workers rehabbing a burned-out home, killing one, and later wounded a farmer near Lowell, Ind.

Investigators plan to send the revolver for ballistics tests to see if it matches the weapon used in the earlier attacks, sources said.

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Officials on Sunday identified the would-be robber as Gary Amaya, 48, of Rankin, a small town about 100 miles south of Chicago. Amaya's phone number was not in service Sunday evening, and relatives could not be reached for comment.

Ken Kaupas, a sheriff's police spokesman, said Orland Park police asked sheriff's investigators to review their case at L.A. Tan, but he would not elaborate.

"It's premature at this point to really say more than that because of our investigation," Kaupas said.

Orland Park police Cmdr. John Keating would not comment on the would-be robber's identity or other details that sources told the Tribune.

The latest lead for sheriff's police began about 6:30 p.m. Saturday, when a female employee at L.A. Tan, in the 15600 block of South 94th Avenue, called police about an armed man apparently robbing the business. Another woman was using a tanning bed at the time, Orland Park police said in a news release.

Amaya allegedly entered the tanning salon, announced the robbery and pointed a gun at the employee, police said. Amaya allegedly ordered the employee to tie her hands and feet with rope he had brought, police said.

Minutes later, a male customer came for his appointment. Amaya changed his target and aimed his gun at the new customer, then ordered him to tie his hands together, police said.

For reasons that remain unclear, the customer was able to grab the gun, which prompted Amaya to move aggressively toward the customer, police said. That's when the customer shot Amaya, hitting him twice, authorities said. Amaya was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 7:30 p.m., police said.

The incident was captured by a surveillance camera, police said. The male customer, whom police would not name, was released without charges. Keating said the man wants to remain anonymous.

In the October slaying, police said a man randomly shot and killed Rolando Alonso, 45, and wounded Josh Garza, 19, above his right eye while he and Alonso rehabbed a home near Beecher. A third construction worker, who is 19, escaped unharmed.

About 40 minutes later, the gunman shot Keith Dahl, 64, an Indiana farmer, and robbed him of $60. The gunman apparently asked about honeybees, which led to his moniker.

Sheriff's police charged Lynwood police Officer Brian Dorian with Alonso's slaying. A victim had identified Dorian after being shown an 8-year-old driver's license photograph of the officer, sources said.

But prosecutors dropped the charges a few days later after Dorian's attorneys said they highlighted holes in the case. The arrest drew sharp criticism from people like Lynwood police Chief Russell Pearson, who accused prosecutors of damaging Dorian's reputation and dragging his fellow officers "through the mud."

In Orland Park, a village known as a shopping destination, L.A. Tan was closed Sunday, apparently unknown to many customers who tugged on the door, then peered inside.

"This is a complete shocker," Malwina Kielbus, 23, a regular customer, said of the shooting.

The business is next to a dry cleaner, a bridal shop and several other stores in a strip mall. Taylor Insalaco, a kennel manager-in-training at nearby Happiness Is Pets, was stunned by the brazen would-be robber. She said the neighborhood is safe. She also is a customer at L.A. Tan.

"You wouldn't think of a (shooting) in a tanning salon — in Orland Park," Insalaco said.

[Dave]

According to WBBM radio, they matched the bullets from Amaya's gun to the honeybee killer.

This post has been edited by Dave: Dec 13 2010, 06:44 PM