Man dies, woman seriously injured; workers escape bullets
LYNWOOD | A Lansing man was fatally shot and a woman was seriously wounded Wednesday afternoon while a moving crew hauled belongings from a Lynwood home. The moving crew said the man shot the woman and shot at the movers before he shot himself to death.
"I just ran. I got little," mover Melvin Hall said.
Oliver Robinson, 50, of the 17800 block of Rose Street in Lansing died Wednesday night at a Chicago-area hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. An autopsy to determine his cause and manner of death was scheduled for Thursday morning.
The office was not called about the woman, the spokesman said.
Lynwood Police Chief Russell Pearson described a "domestic-related shooting" about 3:30 p.m. in a huge new brick home in the 19900 block of semirural Oakwood Avenue south of Glenwood-Lansing Road. Pearson offered few details, but he said both shooting victims were taken - in serious condition Wednesday afternoon - to St. James Hospital and Health Services in Olympia Fields.
Four movers from a South Holland company were hauling items from the house under the woman's supervision Wednesday afternoon, moving crew manager Larry Holmes said. The crew was loading a white box truck for a trip to a storage facility before Robinson arrived, Holmes said.
Moving crew members were unaware they faced any danger, Hall said. At least one child was in the home during the move, Hall said.
Robinson spoke with the movers when he came home, Hall said. Robinson was mad because the woman was leaving, Hall said.
Robinson and the woman argued and fought physically in the house, the movers said. At some point, the woman left briefly, then returned, Hall said. When she returned, Robinson turned very violent, Hall said.
"When she came back, he was just at her," Hall said.
Robinson had a threatening phone conversation before the shooting started, the movers said. Hall said he reached for his phone to call police, but Robinson went for his gun and threatened him.
The movers scattered when they heard a shot, they said. Hall ran across a field, and Robinson shot at him, Hall said.
"I ducked down on the ground to try to act like I was hit," Hall said.
The woman fell wounded in the driveway, the movers said. They all reported Robinson spoke to her in the driveway before he shot her again.
Neighbors said the couple married and moved into the house recently.
Posted in Local on Thursday, October 9, 2008 12:00 am Updated: 12:39 am.
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