By COLlive reporter
Surveillance cameras have not captured footage of a spree killer believed to be responsible for two random murders over a 36-hour period that have terrorized Rogers Park, Chicago officials said.
One of the victims was Eliyahu Moscowitz, a 24-year-old Lubavitcher who was at point-blank range while walking on the lakefront trail near Loyola Park at about 10:20 p.m. on Oct. 1.
Local Alderman Joe Moore described the empty search as a setback in the massive manhunt for the person believed to be responsible for shooting Moscowitz and a 73-year-old man walking his dogs 36 hours earlier.
Police already released surveillance images showing a man dressed in all-dark clothing with a hooded mask walking towards his victim, the Chicago Sun Times reported. The other video shows the suspected killer walking with his feet turned outward down an alley one block south of where Watts was murdered.
Chicago Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the cameras in Loyola Park were apparently pointed in the wrong direction at the time of the shooting and the killer’s approach and exit.
40 detectives still working the case are following up on “some pretty promising leads” from the 200 tips that have poured in, he said.
Speaking to the International Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Convention in Orlando, Florida, President Donald Trump referred to the violence in Chicago and described it as a “shooting wave.”
“There’s no reason for what’s going on there… The crime spree has a terrible blight on that city, and we will do everything possible to get it done,” he said, calling on local authorities to implement “stop and frisk” in the city.
A total of $10,000 in reward money is being offered by the JUF/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago to aid in the search for the killer or killers.
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Meanwhile, the Moscowitz family has been sitting Shiva for Eliyahu and welcoming a wide range of visitors from the local Chabad and others communities around the city.
Rabbi Mendel Moscowitz, an educator, was interviewed by the Kfar Chabad magazine about the tragic and shocking loss of his son.
“I daven in the Bnei Ruven shul, while he went to another shul,” he said. “The custom in that shul after Hakafos on the night of Shmini Atzeres is to visit local Sukkos. In each Sukkah they eat something and this continues until the early hours of the morning.
“He went with them and at the third Sukkah they visited, he stayed there to help clean up after the guests. He simply felt that they needed his help so he stayed to help until the Sukkah was clean.”
His father said this selfless attitude of his son was evident when he learned in the Mayanot Institute yeshiva in Jerusalem and later when he works as a kashrus mashgiach in Chicago.
“He was introverted and didn’t share details of his life. When he would come home in the evening and I would ask his how was his day, he would say it was good and didn’t elaborate. On the other hand, he was able to allow others to open up to him and trusted him.
Moscowitz comes from a respectable Chassidic lineage that includes Rabbi Nissan Neminov, the famed Mashpia of Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch in Brunoy, France, and Rabbi Mordechai Schusterman, the baal koreh of the Rebbe at 770 Eastern Parkway.
Ephriam Isaacson knew Eliyahu Moscowitz from the grocery store. “I always saw him at the Jewel-Osco kosher deli; he was always super helpful,” Isaacson told JNS. “He was always helping someone and did it with a smile.”
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