Woman kills ex-cop, herself at cigar bar
CHICAGO — Gregory Rieves wanted to be an Illinois State Police trooper since he was a boy.
“I don’t know why,” his mother, Hattie Rieves, said Saturday. “He always wanted to be a state trooper. … He loved his job, he was always happy.”
Rieves retired last year after a 22-year career with the Illinois State Police.
Friday night, he was in a cigar lounge in suburban Lisle with another retired trooper and an off-duty trooper when a woman behind them stood up and started firing, police said.
Rieves, 51, was shot dead. The two men with him were seriously wounded: retired Trooper Lloyd Graham, 55, and off-duty Trooper Kaiton Bullock, 48.
The shooter, Lisa V. McMullan, 51, turned the gun on herself and died at the scene, police said.
Acting Lisle Police Chief Ron Wilke later said the woman and the victims were “acquaintances.”
“We have no idea why this happened,” Wilke told reporters outside the Humidor hours after the shooting. “I believe they know each other, but do not believe there is any relation.”
Police provided no updates throughout the day Saturday.
Surveillance video shows McMullan sitting behind the three men in a “media room,” watching a bigscreen television.
About 10:10 p.m., she stands up, draws a handgun and fires shots at the three “without apparent provocation,” officials with the Lisle Police Department said.
McMullan shot one of the men in the back of the head and then fired several rounds at the two others before shooting herself.
Rieves was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Graham and Bullock were taken to Edward Hospital and Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in serious condition. State police Director Brendan Kelly said Saturday they were recovering and were “surrounded by loved ones.”
He said Rieves was “wellloved by all those who worked with him.”
Rieves was the father of a 23-year-old son.
Rieves’ mother said she does not know McMullan or why she would have shot her son.
“I only know what I saw on the news. I have no idea what happened,” she said. “I never knew him to have anything against anybody.
“He had a tough job, I was very concerned about it. But he didn’t worry.”
Rieves, 81, said she last saw her son three weeks ago “on my birthday, when he brought me a bouquet.”
She said his friends were calling the family home all day Saturday.
“He did have a good life,” she said. “A life that he loved.”