September 1, 2015
Murders are a rare thing in this area of northeast Illinois and this one, of a policeman, was particularly unnerving. After I found out what had happened on Tuesday, I went to several businesses in Round Lake and overheard clerks and patrons talking about it. I drove Il-134 to US-12 south of where the police were searching for the three men who killed "GI Joe" as he was called.
I went to the Menard's and the people there told me that there were a lot of heavily armed law enforcement people behind the store. The clerk out in the nursery section said today was her birthday and she was worried about being outside all by herself. She said she would now be like her mother, whose birthday is on September 11th.
About this time, we started hearing all sorts of emergency vehicle sirens and looked out to the road and saw lots of them driving very fast and heading in our general area. I figured this would be a good time to get out of there and left.
I went to Bay Road and had to wait a real long time to turn onto US-12 heading north toward Fox Lake. It seemed that every time our turn light would go green, another cop car would come roaring through, causing us to miss several lights.
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Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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