Witnesses told Crest Hill police Tillery entered the store on the 1400 block of Cedarwood Drive “a little after” 10 p.m. Thursday, Deputy Chief Edward Clark said today.<\/p>\n
Tillery was struggling with a store clerk “when the clerk got hold of a firearm and shot him,” Clark said. The clerk was uninjured, Clark said.<\/p>\n
Tillery went to St. Joseph Provena Medical Center in Joliet where at 4 a.m. a deputy coroner pronounced him dead.<\/p>\n
Joliet police, alerted to Tillery’s death and aware of the robbery attempt, “put two and two together” and contacted Crest Hill police, Clark said.<\/p>\n
Clark said the weapon that was used did not appear to be Tillery’s, and investigators today were attempting to determine its owner.<\/p>\n
There had been previous robberies at the store, Clark said.<\/p>\n
Police will file a report with the Will County State’s Attorney when the investigation concludes, Clark said.<\/p>\n
–Dennis Sullivan<\/em><\/p>\n Read the original article from Tribune News Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n A 27-year-old man died at a hospital in Joliet this morning after attempting to rob a nearby liquor store in Crest Hill the night before, police said. An autopsy by the Will County Coroner’s office this afternoon determined that Blake Tillery of the 1300 block of Rock Run Drive, Crest Hill, died from a single […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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