Engaged mom opening up the bar she owned was shot 'execution-style' after man robbed her: Police

An Illinois pistillate was killed portion opening up the barroom she owned, allegedly shot by a antheral who robbed her first.

The Kankakee County Sheriff's Office announced connected Tuesday that it arrested 47-year-old Julius Burkes Jr. extracurricular his location successful Hammond, Indiana, the time aft 30-year-old Courtney Drysdale was recovered dormant astatine the barroom she owned. Kankakee County Sheriff Mike Downey told Chicago-based ABC affiliate WLS that his section received numerous tips aft sharing surveillance camera images of the fishy successful Drysdale's slaying.

Drysdale was recovered changeable dormant connected Monday greeting astatine The Line, the barroom she owned successful Momence, Illinois, not acold from the Illinois-Indiana border.

During a press conference connected Tuesday, conscionable hours earlier Burkes was arrested, Downey provided details astir the case, stating that Drysdale was opening up the barroom astatine astir 11 a.m. erstwhile the fishy approached her, "brandished a firearm and demanded wealth from the currency register." Downey stated that adjacent though Drysdale "complied" with those demands, "the fishy changeable her twice, execution-style."

The suspect, aboriginal identified arsenic Burkes, past fled the country aft attempting to tamper with "what helium believed" was a surveillance camera, Downey said. Despite Burkes' alleged efforts, Downey said "investigators recovered video evidence."

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In a Facebook station announcing the arrest, the Kankakee County Sheriff's Office said Burkes was being held successful Indiana and would beryllium extradited to Illinois to look charges.

Drysdale's person and coworker Hailey Gershon told WLS that the barroom proprietor near down a fiance and a girl successful simple school. She was a longtime bartender astatine The Line earlier becoming its owner. A Facebook leafage for The Line announced that the barroom would stay closed until further announcement "in airy of tragic events."