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5 Shot In Clothing Store In Tinley Park

Feb 2, 2008 1:01 pm US/Central

5 Shot In Clothing Store In Tinley Park

Suspect Still On The Loose

TINLEY PARK, IL: As many as five people may have been shot Saturday morning at a Lane Bryant clothing store in a strip mall in Tinley Park Saturday morning. Police were sent to the mall at 7264 W. 191st St. around 11 a.m., according to a Tinley Park police dispatcher.

WBBM Newsradio 780 reported that Tinley Park's mayor said five people were shot inside the Lane Bryant store. The conditions of the victims were not immediately available. Will County coroner's office investigators were sent to the scene, but a representative could not say whether anyone was dead.

Unconfirmed reports said the shooting included at least one fatality.

Several ambulances were sent to the shopping center. Witnesses reported seeing several stretchers being wheeled into the Lane Bryant clothing store in the shopping center. The stretchers later were wheeled out ? carrying no patients.

A witness told CBS 2 that several suburban police vehicles were blocking entrances by a parking lot to a Super Target in the mall. Police from Oak Forest, Matteson, Mokena and other south suburban communities responded, and some were searching cars in the parking lot, the witness said.

A representative of the Target store in the mall was not able to comment. The offender was on the loose as of 12:30 p.m., a witness told WBBM Newsradio 780.

-- Source: http://cbs2chicago.com/breakingnewsalerts/mall.shooting.tinley.2.644307.html

Anyone with information was being asked to contact the Tinley Park Police Department at 708-444-5368