Lane Bryant

Feb 2nd, 2008, 10:45am

Chicago, Illinois

Women's clothing store Lane Bryant

Brookside Marketplace shopping centre in the southern suburb of Tinley

Park

Five dead

Connie R. Woolfolk, 37, of Flossmoor

Sarah T. Szafranski, 22, of Oak Forest

Carrie H. Chiuso, 33, of Frankfort

Rhoda McFarland, 42, of Joliet

Jennifer L. Bishop, 34, of South Bend, Ind

Police have said a manager of the Lane Bryant store and four customers

were herded into the back room and shot to death in a robbery attempt

The suspect was described as a black man with thick braided hair and a

receding hairline, Sgt. T.J. Grady said Monday at a news conference.

One braid was adorned with four light green beads and was hanging over

the right side of his face at cheek level

5ft 9in tall and weighing 230 to 260 pounds, dressed in a black waist-

length winter coat, a black cap (charcoal-gray knit cap) and black

jeans (rhinestones on the back pocket)

St James Hospital spokeswoman Sherry Sissac confirmed that the

facility received one female shooting victim on Saturday but declined

to give further information

Relatives of the only survivor of a weekend shooting here that left

five women dead inside a clothing store told a Kentucky newspaper that

all of the women inside the shop had been bound and then shot in the

back of their heads

The survivor (identified only as Martha) whose family said she was a

33-year-old part-time employee at the Lane Bryant store, was shot

along with the rest. But the bullet went into her neck, missing vital

organs, her mother told The Messenger, a newspaper in Madisonville,

Ky.

The woman survived the attack by apparently moving her head just as

the gunman was pulling the trigger

The other five victims were tied up and shot "execution-style" at

close range, the source said. The wounded survivor made the 911 call

that alerted police to the shootings

Police told Woolfolk's relatives that "a small amount of cash and some

valuables" were taken from the victims

Before he opened fire, the gunman covered some of his victims' faces,

sources said Tuesday (Feb 5th)

Sources said Tuesday (Feb 5th) the gunman also made a sexual advance

toward at least one of the women before opening fire

Police described the shooter as "probably a little pudgy."

Killer may have targeted store to avoid men, source tells Tribune

The killer carried a gun and duct tape, a law-enforcement source told

the Tribune

"It's not a robbery," said Emmit Suddoth, 35, a cousin of Connie R.

Woolfolk, who was among the dead. "I don't care what anybody says."

Dale Spencer