Old hurts, new lives emerge two decades after Dann shootings

Old hurts, new lives emerge two decades after Dann shootings

By Lisa Black and Bonnie Miller Rubin | Tribune reporters

9:39 AM CDT, May 20, 2008


It has been 20 years since Laurie Dann terrorized Winnetka with poison, flames and deadly gunfire—a one-day spree whose effects still resonate far beyond the exclusive North Shore community where it began.

On May 20, 1988, Dann shot six children at an elementary school, killing Nicholas Corwin, 8. She took hostages in a home, where she shot a college student before killing herself.

Amy Moses, the substitute teacher in the classroom Dann targeted at Hubbard Woods School, has since left the profession.

Phil Andrew, the college student, went on to become an FBI agent, his career path directly influenced by his encounter with Dann.

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Andrew went through rehabilitation and earned a law degree. He urged stricter gun control measures by serving as executive director of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence.


More at:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-20-dann-anniversarymay20,0,2697762,full.story

Need to dig up something, that will keep the anti-civil rights people engaged....Since they run on pure emotion, and facts have no impact.

of a movie.

"In 1988, Dann was 30 and had a history of mental illness. Police were familiar with some of her odd behaviors during a rocky divorce. Even after her ex-husband accused her of stabbing him with an ice pick as he slept, neither police nor her parents believed she was capable of violence, according to news accounts."

"Dann started her day early May 20. Before entering Hubbard Woods about 10:30 a.m., she lit a house on fire, attempted to firebomb a school and delivered poisoned snacks to people she knew. She could have killed dozens had any of those attempts succeeded."



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If wishes were horses, pigs would fly.

If you wanna kill a bunch of people, get a gun.

Looks like the obvious lesson learned, eh?

Do you have something to add to the story that we and the writer are unaware of? Looks like someone needs to learn to read, eh.


David

"Andrew went through rehabilitation and earned a law degree. He urged stricter gun control measures by serving as executive director of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence."

or maybe instructive or enlightening that someone who was the victim of a lunatic with a handgun would now support ridiculous laws to remove the offending tools from the law abiding?

It's quite understandable that he would "feel" that way but just as I would not be allowed to sit on a jury deciding the fate of a person accused of murdering a family member or a friend of mine neither do we base our laws on the personal horror visited upon a few citizens.