SHOOTING ON EMERY AVE NEAR MURPHY DR, IRENE H KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, ROMEOVILLE

THU FEB 13 2014 ~7:00 AM
ROMEOVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT/ROMEOVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT
"FATAL SHOOTING"
300 EMERY AVE ROMEOVILLE, IL

UPDATE 3:40 PM: BOTH VICTIMS TRANSPORTED TO ADVENTIST BOLINGBROOK HOSPITAL. THE DAUGHTER WAS TRANSFERRED TO LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER IN MAYWOOD BY A MEDICAL TRANSPORT HELICOPTER.

UPDATE 3:20 PM: NO CONFIRMATION ON THE EXTENT OF INJURIES, BUT AT LEAST ONE OF THE VICTIMS IS BELIEVED TO HAVE LIFE-THREATENING INJURIES. THE OFFENDER IS DESCRIBED AS A SHORT MALE THAT FLED ON FOOT.

UPDATE 12:01 PM: VICTIMS REPORTED TO BE A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER.  THERE IS NO CONFIRMATION ON WHETHER THE SUSPECT IS IN CUSTODY.

BREAKING REPORT 8:05 AM: SUSPECT AT LARGE AFTER "FATAL SHOOTING" -- POSSIBLY ON FOOT IN THE AREA. EARLY REPORT OF TWO PEOPLE WITH GUNSHOT WOUNDS. PERIMETER SET UP AND VALLEY VIEW SCHOOLS IN SOFT LOCKDOWN. EARLY REPORT THAT THERE IS NO CONNECTION WITH THE SHOOTING AND ANY OF THE VALLEY VIEW SCHOOLS.

ARMORED POLICE VEHICLES IN THE AREA.



ROMEOVILLE: Police investigating shooting on Emery Rd near Romeo Rd. All schools on "soft lockdown" as precuation. pic.twitter.com/Ee3Ssg23B3
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Soft lockdown has ended. All students enroute on buses are being taken to schools.
— Valley View Schools (@VVSD365U) February 13, 2014




Children picked up by buses will be taken to the Romeoville Recreation Center temporarily.
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Romeoville schools update: If your child has not left home, please keep him or her home. Buses will pick up children at their normal stops.
— Valley View Schools (@VVSD365U) February 13, 2014




Soft lockdown in Romeoville schools because of incident in community not related to schools. Kids should still come to school.
— Valley View Schools (@VVSD365U) February 13, 2014




135th and Hickory are blocked due to police activity....In Romeoville all 6 schools in Valley View districts on soft lockdown
— WJOL News (@WJOL) February 13, 2014


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