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Nearby suicide locks down Oswego schools
Police quickly determined shooting posed no risk to students
April 25, 2009
By ERIKA WURST ewurst@scn1.com
OSWEGO - Several nearby schools were briefly placed on lockdown Friday morning after a fatal shooting was reported at a business in an Oswego industrial park.
Police responded to the report of a shooting at around 8:15 a.m. in the 0-99 block of Stonehill Drive. The death appears to be a suicide, police said.
The Kendall County coroner identified the victim as Stephen Prindiville, 32, of Aurora.
Coroner Ken Toftoy pronounced Prindiville dead on the scene at around 9:45 a.m. Toftoy said Prindiville appeared to have been deceased for several hours before the 8 a.m. call to police.
Toftoy said a co-worker found Prindiville with a single gunshot wound inside of his Oswego landscaping business. Officers said there does not appear to be any foul play, but an investigation into the incident is ongoing.
An autopsy will be conducted on Prindiville on Saturday.
Because of the proximity of the shooting to Oswego High School, Traughber Junior High, Eastview Elementary and the Kendall County Opportunity School, all the buildings were put on lockdown. Police determined the shooting to be non-threatening within five minutes of dispatch, at which time the lockdown ended.
On Stonehill Drive, tucked behind the school district bus barn, yellow crime scene tape wound around the back parking of the building where Prindiville's body was found.
Ethan Blume, 18, a recent OHS graduate, was visiting the school Friday morning to speak with a counselor when administrators put the building on lockdown.
"I had to hide under a little platform," Blume said. "No one told us what was going on."
The lockdown also startled senior Megan Keller, who was working as an office monitor in the school.
"They told us to go into the room and close the doors at first," Keller said. "Then they changed it so we had to get under tables and stuff. It was freaky."
Students remained in the dark as to the cause of the lockdown, only that something had happened in the industrial park nearby.
Nearby suicide locks down Oswego schools
Police quickly determined shooting posed no risk to students
April 25, 2009
By ERIKA WURST ewurst@scn1.com
OSWEGO - Several nearby schools were briefly placed on lockdown Friday morning after a fatal shooting was reported at a business in an Oswego industrial park.
Police responded to the report of a shooting at around 8:15 a.m. in the 0-99 block of Stonehill Drive. The death appears to be a suicide, police said.
The Kendall County coroner identified the victim as Stephen Prindiville, 32, of Aurora.
Coroner Ken Toftoy pronounced Prindiville dead on the scene at around 9:45 a.m. Toftoy said Prindiville appeared to have been deceased for several hours before the 8 a.m. call to police.
Toftoy said a co-worker found Prindiville with a single gunshot wound inside of his Oswego landscaping business. Officers said there does not appear to be any foul play, but an investigation into the incident is ongoing.
An autopsy will be conducted on Prindiville on Saturday.
Because of the proximity of the shooting to Oswego High School, Traughber Junior High, Eastview Elementary and the Kendall County Opportunity School, all the buildings were put on lockdown. Police determined the shooting to be non-threatening within five minutes of dispatch, at which time the lockdown ended.
On Stonehill Drive, tucked behind the school district bus barn, yellow crime scene tape wound around the back parking of the building where Prindiville's body was found.
Ethan Blume, 18, a recent OHS graduate, was visiting the school Friday morning to speak with a counselor when administrators put the building on lockdown.
"I had to hide under a little platform," Blume said. "No one told us what was going on."
The lockdown also startled senior Megan Keller, who was working as an office monitor in the school.
"They told us to go into the room and close the doors at first," Keller said. "Then they changed it so we had to get under tables and stuff. It was freaky."
Students remained in the dark as to the cause of the lockdown, only that something had happened in the industrial park nearby.