[InHam] Amateur Radio Newsline: Radio Amateur Fatally Shot in Chicago

[Mark Thompson]

Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2040, Friday, December 2, 2016
*** CLOSED CIRCUIT ADVISORY **** 
The following is a closed circuit advisory and not for broadcast. 
Newscast #2040 is an expanded edition of Amateur Radio Newsline, containing a special report on Pearl Harbor Day in the third and final segment. This newscast has three segments and there are two breaks for identification. 
And now, here's this week's anchor, Jim Damron N8TMW.
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Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2040 with a release date of Friday, December 2, 2016 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. An amateur radio operator is killed by a suspect being pursued by police. Hams assist with shelter communications during Tennessee wildfires. An uninhabited Hawaiian island comes alive with radio -- and we share memories of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. All this and more as we bring you Amateur Radio Newsline Report #2040 in an expanded edition this week.
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***BREAKING NEWS***
RADIO AMATEUR FATALLY SHOT IN CHICAGO
JIM: As Amateur Radio Newsline went to production on Thursday, Dec. 1, this news broke about the tragic killing of an amateur radio operator in Chicago. Tyrone Hardin KD9ERC,  who worked as a railroad security guard, was fatally shot after his vehicle was stolen by a man being pursued by police for an earlier car theft. He was pronounced dead of bullet wounds to the abdomen at South Suburban Hospital by the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. It was 6:25 p.m., not quite two hours after the shooting on Saturday, November 26.
Tyrone got his license after testing with the 220 MHz Guys Amateur Radio Club in Chicago.
Police have issued a warrant for 24-year-old Rashad Williams of East Hazel Crest. He is being charged with first-degree murder in Tyrone's killing. 
His wife Gwinette Oliver told the Chicago Sun-Times he was working the security guard post as a second job so he would have enough money to give his family a nice Christmas. She said he asssured her the job wasn't dangerous.
Tyrone Hardin was 38 years old and the father of a 5-year-old son.
(CHICAGO SUN TIMES)