Cairo Association of Teachers - Newsletter
Cairo Association of Teachers - Newsletter
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CAT Tracks for July 31, 2007
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From the WSIL TV Channel 3 website...
BREAKING NEWS: Fatal Shooting In Alexander County
EAST CAPE, Ill -- Illinois State Police are searching for a man Tuesday morning after a shooting.
Police say the suspect robbed the Brown Bag Video Store in East Cape Illinois and killed a customer.
The clerk is recovering from injuries he suffered during the robbery.
Police are looking for a thin, white male, approximately six-feet tall, with a gray baseball cap and dark bill.
The suspect was carrying a long barrel handgun. If you have any information on the suspect you are urged to contact authorities.
Update from the KFVS TV Channel 12 website...
Deadly Shooting & Armed Robbery
By: Heartland News
ALEXANDER COUNTY, Ill. - A manhunt is underway for the suspect of an armed robbery and deadly shooting at the Brown Bag video store Tuesday morning.
Charles Caldwell, 30, of Cairo died in the shooting.
According to Illinois State Police a man pulled out a gun inside the Brown Bag video store near the intersection of 146 and Route 3 around 1:30 Tuesday morning. Police say that during the robbery, the suspect fired several shots. At some point, the suspect shot and killed Caldwell, and shot and injured the store clerk.
Family of the victim say Caldwell was a flourist and hung out at the Brown Bag video store because he had friends who worked there.
The store clerk tells Heartland News he pretended he was dead after he was shot in the arm.
The suspect took some cash and ran out of the store.
Survellience cameras are inside and outside of the building, however, no word yet whether police have video of the shooting.
Police are still looking for the suspect.
He is described as a white male with a dark complection and medium build (about 6 feet tall), wearing a grey baseball cap with a dark bill.
Illinois State Police emphasize the man is armed and dangerous, possibly with a long barrel handgun.
If you think you see someone matching this description, do not approach them. Call your local police immediately.
Stay with Heartland News for the latest on this developing story.
Another update from the KFVS TV Channel 12 website...
Deadly Shooting & Armed Robbery
By: CJ Cassidy
ALEXANDER COUNTY, Ill. - An early morning robbery ends in gunshots and bloodshed. Right now, a killer remains on the loose.
Investigators say an armed man came into the Brown Bag video store around 1:30 a.m., shot the store clerk and 30-year-old Charles Caldwell twice, before grabbing the money in the cash register.
"I can't believe it. My brother he was a good person. He never bothered anyone. He enjoyed life. He had a lot of friends," said Charles Allen Caldwell's sister, Cindy Johnson of Cairo. She says some of his friends worked at Brown Bag Video and that he was visiting some of them Monday night when someone gunned him down.
"To kill somebody for what little bit they got it doesn't make sense," she said.
Illinois State Police investigators want to make sense of what happened there, themselves.
They say the suspect shot Caldwell twice, once in the chest, and shot the clerk on duty in the arm. The clerk told Heartland News he played dead to avoid getting shot again.
Caldwell's sister hopes he recovers, but says she won't say the same for Brown Bag Video, a store offering adult videos and toys for sale.
"I'd really like to see that place shut down. I really would. I don't think it needs to be there. We don't need places like that around here. There are nice decent people in the world, and they don't need that kind of stuff around. To me it's just a senseless place no sense in having it," Johnson said.
Johnson hopes folks in Cairo remember Charles Caldwell as a man with a vision.
He ran for city council earlier this year. When he wasn't elected, he chose to use his talents as a florist to beautify his neighborhood.
"He just wanted to help our town - people in the town trying to make a difference," she said.
Investigators are still searching for the suspect in question.
He's described as a thin white man with a dark complexion, about 6 foot tall, with a medium build.
He was last seen wearing a grey baseball ball cap with a dark bill.
Police say he used a long-barreled handgun to shoot the victims.
They say if you see him don't approach him, but call police immediately.
UPDATED
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An armed robbery at Brown Bag Video in McClure, Ill. early Tuesday morning left one customer dead and a clerk injured but not fatally wounded. The store is closed today as police investigate. (Aaron Eisenhauer) |
From the Southeast Missourian website...
Deadly Shooting in East Cape
By Bridget DiCosmo ~ Southeast Missourian
An armed robbery early Tuesday morning at Brown Bag Video in McClure, Ill., left one customer dead and an employee wounded.
The Illinois State Police received a 911 call just before 1 a.m. stating someone was shot.
Authorities have not yet released the names of the victims, but one was killed and the clerk was injured, according to Capt. Harold Masse of the Illinois State Police District 22.
Police continue their search for the subject.
Police consider the suspect to be armed and dangerous.
From the WPSD TV Channel 6 website...
Illinois Man Killed During Armed Robbery
Melissa Crabtree, NewsChannel 6
Two people were shot during the botched robbery Tuesday morning.
Investigators were called to the Brown Bag adult video store on Route 3 in East Cape Girardeau Illinois at 1:28 a.m. Tuesday morning.
30-year-old Charles Allen Caldwell of Cairo,Illinos was killed and a clerk was wounded.
Investigators are releasing few details about what happened but they do say a man with a long barreled hand gun tried to rob the store.
Illinois state police are looking for a thin white man with a dark complexion about 6 feet tall. He was wearing a gray baseball cap with a darker colored bill at the time of the shooting.
Newschannel 6's Melissa Crabtree talked with a member of Charles Caldwell's family.
He was my baby brother, I loved him unconditionally, said Cindy Johnson, Caldwell's sister.
Charles Allen Caldwell loved to create beauty with flowers. He hoped to open his own flower shop and wanted to stay close to family like his older sister, Cindy Johnson.
He was outgoing, he was a people person. He really liked people and would help anybody that needed anything he would help them if they could, said Johnson.
Caldwell put the arrangements together that decorate his mother's front porch. Family members say he just finished planting the petunias along his front yard. They say he was a friend to everyone.
Caldwell worked at the McGinness Florists until five o'clock Monday night; co workers say they spoke to him a few hours before he was killed.
The flower shop closed today and put out black wreaths in his honor.
I just hope they find the person who did this and lock him away for good and keep him there, said Cindy Johnson.
A one-time candidate for city council, he had hoped to serve his community in the next election. Charles Caldwell's visitation is Thursday at the Mighty River Church in Cairo. His funeral will be held Friday.
