Manhunt continues for suspect in rural Illinois/Indiana shootings

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Authorities continued to search today for a man described as mentally unstable who stopped his pickup truck in rural, out-of-the-way spots in Illinois and Indiana, randomly asking strangers about honeybees before opening fire, wounding a farmer and construction worker and killing a 45-year-old man in Will County.

The man is described as disheveled and heavyset and appeared to be in his 40s, wearing a green windbreaker and driving a 1990s-model Chevy pickup. Officials worried about more violence to come if he wasn't captured.

The prospect of a gunman at large in the rural borderland between Illinois and Indiana sent shockwaves through the small towns there, where schools were put on lockdown, farmers kept an anxious ear to the radio and even a beekeeper debated whether to call police before going out on calls.

"It is really just a messed-up world that we live in these days," said Bob Dahl, 65, of Bourbonnais, whose brother Keith Dahl was shot three times after going out to speak with a stranger in his driveway, perhaps thinking he needed directions. "I don't know what else to say. It is a bizarre situation."

The shootings touched off a massive manhunt across northern Indiana that went well into the night. As reports of sightings of a truck matching the suspect's vehicle flooded the sheriff's office, deputies were dispatched to track down leads across the state. ...........(more)

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