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Man shot during robbery in southeast Carbondale BILL LUKITSCH | @Bill_LukitschDE
A man was shot Saturday night during a robbery in Carbondale’s southeast side. The victim was a passenger in a vehicle stopped in the 900 block of East College Street when an armed motorist exited a separate vehicle and spoke with the victim, according to a Carbondale police news release. The suspect attempted to rob the man, a struggle ensued and the victim was shot once in the leg, police said. The victim, whose name was not released as of Sunday afternoon, was treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound at Carbondale Memorial Hospital, police said. Police received the initial report at around 7 p.m. Saturday that a male gunshot wound victim was being treated at the hospital, which led to the investigation of the incident. He has since been released from the hospital. The suspect remains at large and is described by police as a black male, 25 to 30 years old, about 6-foot-1, weighing roughly 180 pounds. The suspect’s vehicle is a gray, four-door 1980’s model Chevrolet, possibly a Caprice, police said. The shooting is the third gunviolence episode reported by the Daily Egyptian in the past three weeks. The first Carbondale homicide of 2016 occurred in the early morning hours of Easter Sunday in the 400 block of West Walnut Street. Police
Luke Nozicka | @LukeNozicka Carbondale police and firefighters use flashlights and lights from a fire truck Saturday night to search the 900 block of East College Street.
responded to a shots-fired call about 2 a.m. on March 27 to find Tim Beaty, 41, killed in his home by a stray bullet. A second victim, Nehemiah Greenlee, was treated at Carbondale Memorial Hospital for a non-life-threatening injury. Three suspects have been apprehended on gun charges in connection to the shooting of
Greenlee and are incarcerated at Jackson County Jail awaiting preliminary hearing. No charges had been filed in relation to the homicide as of Sunday. Police are still searching for Daniel Holmes, 21, of Carbondale, as the fourth suspect wanted on felony gun charges for alleged involvement in the Easter shooting.
Holmes is also suspected to have participated in a separate incident at Evolve Apartments at SIU, an apartment complex near campus, that sent one 19-year-old male victim to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the lower back. Police consider Holmes armed and dangerous. Anyone with information about
these incidents is encouraged to contact the Carbondale Police Department at 618-457 or Crime Stoppers at 618-549-COPS (2677). This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
Corps, is not the only homeless student veteran. The junior from Thompsonville studying computer and electrical engineering is helping establish a transition home for veterans so they don’t have to experience what he did. “This time three months from now, I’m going to be able to walk out on my balcony and fish out of the moat,”
he excitedly said of moving into the transition home. The large six-bedroom brick house, at Giant City and Pleasant Hill roads, is secluded from the noise of the city. Such noise can affect veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder, said Anthony Pilota, who is part of the Veterans Affairs work-study program at the university’s
veteran services office. Some rooms will be rented out at low prices on a first-come, firstserve basis, and some will be open for homeless veterans, said Pilota, a junior from Homewood studying general management. He said he hopes camper hook-ups will also be installed so veterans with
RVs can move onto the property for a small cost. “We found that a lot of veterans were sleeping in their cars until they got their first full GI Bill payment, which usually was about two months after school starts,” Pilota said of the bill that covers education expenses for veterans.
Bill Lukitsch can be reached at blukitsch@dailyegyptian.com or 618-536-3329.
Transition house planned for homeless veterans at SIU ANNA SPOERRE | @AnnaSpoerre
Like most students, James Summers had a difficult time waking up in the morning. But it wasn’t because he stayed up all night. It was because for the first two months of the semester, he would wake up in the front seat of his car. Summers, who served in the Marine
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