Lane Bryant shooting | |
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Location | Tinley Park, Illinois, United States |
Coordinates | 41°32′51″N87°47′38″W / 41.54748°N 87.79375°W |
Date | February 2, 2008 c. 10:45 a.m. (UTC-6) |
Attack type | Mass murder, mass shooting, armed robbery, sexual assault |
Weapons | Glock handgun chambered for .40 S&W |
Deaths | 5 |
Injured | 1 |
Perpetrator | Unknown |
Motive | Unknown |
Outcome | Cold case |
The Lane Bryant shooting was an incident of mass murder and armed robbery at a Lane Bryant clothing outlet in the Brookside Marketplace in Tinley Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, that occurred on February 2, 2008. The shooting resulted in five people killed and a sixth injured.
The identity of the shooter remains unknown. Police released a sketch of the suspect on February 11, 2008, receiving two dozen leads in the first 24 hours. [1]
Four customers, a part-time employee and the store manager were taken to the back of the store and shot. Five of them, all women, were killed; the part-time employee was wounded but survived. At least one of the victims was sexually assaulted by the perpetrator. [2] Police found the victims shortly after receiving an emergency call at 10:45 a.m. The gunman was described as a black man with thick, cornrowed hair and a receding hairline, [3] along with one braid lying over the right side of his face at cheek level and decorated with four light-green beads on the end. [4] Police believe the attack was a robbery "gone awry", though the motive of the shooting has been a matter of debate. [5]
The five deceased victims were: [3]
The police withheld the age and identity of the surviving victim, the part-time employee of the store.
The shopping center was closed and locked down while being searched. It was reopened after police found that the gunman had left the immediate area. [6]
A $100,000 reward, half of which was donated by Lane Bryant's parent company, Charming Shoppes Inc., was offered for information leading to the gunman's arrest. [3] On February 6, 2008, Lane Bryant announced the establishment of The Lane Bryant Tinley Park Memorial Fund in honor of the five women who were killed. [7] Lane Bryant also offered to pay for the victims' funerals.
The Steve Wilkos Show , being taped in Chicago, profiled the suspect of the shooting at the end of one episode since the incident. [8]
The store building itself remained unused until November 2013, when T.J. Maxx took it over for use as a retail outlet. [9]
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