Excerpts from the ChicagoTribune.com:
Orland Park police said a juvenile was charged with aggravated arson after allegedly starting a fire shortly after 5:30 p.m. Sunday inside the Old Navy store at Orland Park Place shopping center. About 50 customers and 13 store employees were evacuated without injury after the fire began on a merchandise display wall near the rear of the store.
Security camera video showed someone lighting the display on fire and an Orland Park police officer recalled seeing someone fitting the description standing outside the store watching. The suspect was apprehended a few blocks away.
thanks Keith
#1 by John Struve on May 3, 2018 - 3:27 AM
What was the purpose of doing what he did? Was it an initiation to some gang or other fraternity? I can only try to imagine, not knowing any more facts than are published here. Where is this country going? Where will it be in ten years when today’s so-called young people will be mainly in charge. Its youth, many of whom are actually cowardly adults who never grew up, never got a “real” job and are still living in Momma’s basement, seem to have absolutely NO VALUES. One does not have to be religious fanatic to notice that many, many have never set foot in a church in their lives. Standing with them at funeral grave sites they can not even say the Lord’s Prayer, they do not know it… not even to mention the Apostles’ Creed or the Twenty-Third Psalm which when I grew up almost all youth had memorized even if they were not regular worship attenders. What would those weak-kneed football protester – players who do not stand for the National Anthem do if there would be another 9-11 type event and clergy prayed like they did at Yankee Stadium in 2001? Would they even come on to the field? We put up with a lot of CRAZINESS in America and throughout the world. Even our president refers to those who shoot up schools and other venues “crazy people.” What else are they? Yes, I am afraid, we “DO” live in a crazy world and until people begin to refocus on the love of others and begin again to worship God, it’s not going to get any better. In my graduate school days I worked at a suburban St. Louis Police Department. The full-time Fire Department was attached to our facilities. We were all friends. I often had coffee with them at their large kitchen table. Those men, as I recall, were Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, etc. Every time they ate their meals together someone said a prayer of thanksgiving. Anyone could have recused their self but I never saw it. They thanked God for His blesses of daily bread and His protection upon themselves, their fellow first-responders everywhere, and prayed for members of each other’s families and even close friends who were having health or other problems. I knew them well. They did not always agree on everything but they showed “respect” for each other and for God Who protected and provided for them and theirs. Perhaps other departments might consider following their lead still today. God be with us all. In the days ahead, with the terrible graduation rates, low scores, lack of any kind of value systems in many, maybe even most of our up and comers, we will certainly need His guidance and help every day.