A family in Hanover Park, Illinois, is mourning after their matriarch was fatally shot, moments after dropping her son off at school. The woman had told police she was being stalked, even reporting the harassment the evening before her premature demise.
Now family members are saying the person who they believed killed her was at one time a close connection.
On Monday, Feb. 13, around 8:30 a.m., Clarice Taylor, 41, was killed outside of her neighbor’s home. Officers from the Hanover Police Department, the agency family members said she had called previously about being stalked, discovered her lifeless body with a bullet wound to her head, ABC 7 News reports.
Taylor’s sister, Chianni Hopkins, said she was on the phone with Taylor when her sister said the man had approached her at the school.
Hopkins recalled her last conversation with her sister, around 8:27 a.m., saying, “She said, ‘Why he just rush me?’ And, she said, ‘Oh my God, this is him. Call you back.’ ”
“She was gone within that five minutes,” the bereaved sister shared.
Henry Aarosinski lives close to where Taylor was discovered. He recalls hearing the gunfire and worrying that someone, possibly a child, was hurt, according to ABC 7 News.
“It was 8:25 this morning, I was just waking up, turning the news on, and all of sudden I heard real loud shots, six in a row, bang,” he said. “That’s the opening that goes to the park and garage school, so at 8:30 in the morning, that’s when all the little grade school kids are going down that alley, so at least it wasn’t a little kid that got shot.”
Because of the proximity to the elementary school, the campus, and another middle school were placed on a “soft lockdown,” as law enforcement searched the community for the suspect. Because it is a homicide investigation, the DuPage County Metropolitan Emergency Response and Investigations Team Task Force has joined the HPD in its pursuit of justice for…
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