WGFA NEWS for Monday, November 30, 2009 >
WX > A partly sunny day to close out November, high near 43.
> Indiana State Police say they’ve found the truck connected to a deadly Benton County shooting. Troopers found the silver 2008 Toyota Tundra pickup truck parked in a lot at the Indianapolis International Airport yesterday. Steven Farrell, who remains on the loose, allegedly shot 40-year-old Christine Craig on Friday. Craig died while her teenage daughter drove to get help. Anyone with information should call police.
Police said Craig pulled alongside the suspect’s truck, got out and exchanged words with him. Police report Craig got back into her car and was sitting in the passenger seat when Farrell allegedly walked over and shot her. Craig died at a gas station in Otterbein where her daughter drove to seeking help.
> Two Chicago men are jailed in Kankakee and two others are at-large following the armed robbery of a Dollar General Store on East Court Street in Kankakee Friday. 19-year-old Deshawn Lucas and 19-year-old Scott Coleman were arrested after an off-duty police officer gunned his car and hit one of the suspects, who still managed to flee on foot. Lucas was arrested with the help of another on-duty officer. Coleman was arrested later by Bradley Police.
> Eight suspects were in custody today after a stolen Wal-Mart trailer was recovered in Iroquois County. Illinois State Police were monitoring a farmhouse site along Route 45 in rural Ashkum where the trailer, loaded with merchandise, was discovered Sunday afternoon. Several officers surrounded the house and two subjects were arrested initially. Several more arrests have since been made.
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