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Deputies sue shooting suspect Aunt who police say provided weapon also named in civil lawsuit By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com
Scott B. Peters
WOODSTOCK – Two McHenry County sheriff’s deputies injured in the line of duty are suing the man accused of shooting them and the woman who allegedly gave him access to fire-
arms. Deputies Dwight Maness and Khalia Satkiewicz filed a 12-count civil lawsuit against Scott B. Peters last month in McHenry County. The lawsuit also names Peters’ aunt Kathryn Kriepke, who authorities said provided the gun that he is ac-
cused of using in the shooting. Maness and Satkiewicz are seeking unspecified damages from Peters and Kriepke in excess of $50,000, though that dollar amount is merely a legal standard. The damages likely will be much more significant, said attorney Philip Prossnitz, who is
representing the deputies. “Getting shot is not part of the job of being a sheriff’s deputy,” Prossnitz said. “Anyone who shoots a sheriff’s deputy, or provides a weapon to someone who does, is going to feel the full brunt and consequence of the civil justice system.”
Peters is awaiting trial on multiple attempted murder and weapons charges stemming from the Oct. 16 incident. Authorities say he fired more than a dozen rounds at Maness and Satkiewicz, who were responding to
See LAWSUIT, page A9
‘Lincoln never dies’ – finding his resonance 150 years later “I think Lincoln was one of those men who could see through the fog of time, the fog of history, and he had a vision of a road for this country. We’re not there yet. Ferguson showed us that ... but we’re still on that road.”
Robert Davis A Civil War re-enactor
By ADAM GELLER The Associated Press WASHINGTON – In the reading room overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue, Karen Needles mostly works alone – but always in good company. Five mornings a week, she arrives at the National Archives, often wearing an Abraham Lincoln T-shirt. Beside her laptop with its Lincoln mouse pad, she sometimes stations an Honest Abe bobblehead, seemingly nodding approval. Here, three blocks from where, 150 years ago this week, Lincoln was killed, Needles works to bring him to life, scanning every original record she can from Lincoln’s administration and posting them online. To Needles, raised in smalltown Kansas and first in her family to go to college, Lincoln has long been a role model. But we could all use some Lincoln, the former history teacher says, relishing the notion of his statue at the Lincoln Memorial taking today’s politicians over his knee. “Lincoln never dies,” she says. Soon after John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865, the country embarked on a 1,700-mile funeral from Washington to Springfield, Illinois. Day and night, crowds lined the rails in a cathartic outpouring that has never been rivaled. Today, the commemoration stirs the voices of Lincoln’s modern-day admirers, some connecting with him in almost personal terms, while searching anew for his relevance to the republic he left behind. When tourists queue in
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Paramedic student Steven Vasquez (left) talks with Chief Ralph Webster on March 31 at the Woodstock Fire/Rescue District. According to Webster, the number of structure fires has gone down locally while the number of medical calls has risen.
Local agencies adjust as firefighting field changes By ALLISON GOODRICH agoodrich@shawmedia.com Chief Tony Huemann of the McHenry Township Fire Protection District was the kid who grew up dreaming about jumping at the sound of a bell to confront a blazing building. While his long firefighting tenure has allowed him plenty of opportunities to fulfill that dream, time, fire safety advancements and an expanding demand for medical care have made those instances far less frequent. It seems the duties associated with being a firefighter reflect the job title less as the years go on, with the
“... As a country we are becoming much more fire safe. We now have early warning, requiring the installation of smoke detectors and in some states, residential sprinkler systems.” Kenneth Willette National Fire Protection Association’s public fire protection division manager number of fire calls falling as emergency medical services continue to grow in demand. “It’s turned into us doing much more patient care and ambulance work than we ever have in the past,” Huemann said. “And then we’ll go on a fire call occasionally.”
Local and national agencies report trend Within the jurisdiction of the Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District, EMS responses continue to outweigh fire responses, as they have since at least 2001, according to data from the dis-
trict. Then, medical calls represented 53 percent of the total responses, whereas they made up 68 percent in 2012. Meanwhile, fire responses declined from 47 percent of the total to 32 percent in that time. The trend also is evident in Crystal Lake, where the fire and rescue department, which integrated fire and EMS services in 1980, reported almost two times the number of EMS calls last year compared to the year 2000, and only 56 fire calls in 2014 compared to 169 in 2003. The local data mirror those of agencies nationwide,
See FIREFIGHTING, page A9
See LINCOLN, page A10
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