Crystal
02-21-2005, 10:41 AM
Mother shot dead in front of daughter
Child was in car when Laurie DiLorenzo was hit by three bullets; police are searching for ex-husband
By MIKE GOODWIN, Staff writer
First published: Monday, February 21, 2005
GLENS FALLS -- Authorities are searching for the estranged husband of a city woman who was gunned down in front of her daughter in a convenience store parking lot Sunday, a killing that police said may have been recorded by the store's security cameras.
Police said Laurie DiLorenzo, 42, was shot at point-blank range at least three times inside a car parked at the gas pumps of a Cumberland Farms at the corner of Bay and Union streets.
"He was standing right next to the vehicle," Police Chief Richard Carey said of the shooter. The killer used a rifle to carry out the 2 p.m. killing before fleeing the gas station, he said.
Police were searching for the woman's estranged husband, Raymond G. DiLorenzo of Glens Falls. "He's a person we need to speak to," the chief said, though he stopped short of calling him a suspect.
One of the couple's children was with Laurie DiLorenzo when the shooting occurred, but the chief said she was not harmed. She was with police Sunday night, he said.
At least two video security cameras were pointed toward the gas pumps outside the convenience store.
"We do have some images that we're reviewing," Carey said, though he declined to say whether any of the incident was captured on tape.
Police said Raymond DiLorenzo may have been in a 1987 Nissan Pulsar that was seen driving away from the store. Carey said police did not believe he was any danger to the public.
Investigators had found .223-caliber shell casings in the parking lot, but there was no sign of the rifle. Police roped off the lot during the investigation.
Laurie DiLorenzo was a longtime employee of Glens Falls Hospital and her husband is a former employee, hospital spokesman Jayson White confirmed.
Acquaintances of the DiLorenzos said she worked in a laboratory at the hospital and he had worked as a security guard.
Friends and one-time colleagues converged on the corner as word of the killing quickly spread through this small North Country city.
"They were always happy," said Lisa Varney, a former housekeeper at the hospital who said she knew the couple.
But Varney and others said the couple had been having marital trouble and recently split.
"She just left him like two weeks ago," Varney said.
Billie-Jo Wright said the couple had several children, including a 20-year-old son, Christopher, whom she also had worked with at the hospital.
The shooting occurred in a neighborhood just north of the city's downtown center. Bay Street is dotted with multifamily homes and large houses that have been converted into office space for doctors and insurance dealers.
Steven Rolleston was in the back yard of his home on nearby Madison Street when he heard "popping sounds" that he said he initially thought were the backfire of a vehicle.
Rolleston said he later came to the homicide scene after seeing the police officers massing at the parking lot and television trucks lining up for live broadcasts.
"It's scary," he said. "It's scary."
Child was in car when Laurie DiLorenzo was hit by three bullets; police are searching for ex-husband
By MIKE GOODWIN, Staff writer
First published: Monday, February 21, 2005
GLENS FALLS -- Authorities are searching for the estranged husband of a city woman who was gunned down in front of her daughter in a convenience store parking lot Sunday, a killing that police said may have been recorded by the store's security cameras.
Police said Laurie DiLorenzo, 42, was shot at point-blank range at least three times inside a car parked at the gas pumps of a Cumberland Farms at the corner of Bay and Union streets.
"He was standing right next to the vehicle," Police Chief Richard Carey said of the shooter. The killer used a rifle to carry out the 2 p.m. killing before fleeing the gas station, he said.
Police were searching for the woman's estranged husband, Raymond G. DiLorenzo of Glens Falls. "He's a person we need to speak to," the chief said, though he stopped short of calling him a suspect.
One of the couple's children was with Laurie DiLorenzo when the shooting occurred, but the chief said she was not harmed. She was with police Sunday night, he said.
At least two video security cameras were pointed toward the gas pumps outside the convenience store.
"We do have some images that we're reviewing," Carey said, though he declined to say whether any of the incident was captured on tape.
Police said Raymond DiLorenzo may have been in a 1987 Nissan Pulsar that was seen driving away from the store. Carey said police did not believe he was any danger to the public.
Investigators had found .223-caliber shell casings in the parking lot, but there was no sign of the rifle. Police roped off the lot during the investigation.
Laurie DiLorenzo was a longtime employee of Glens Falls Hospital and her husband is a former employee, hospital spokesman Jayson White confirmed.
Acquaintances of the DiLorenzos said she worked in a laboratory at the hospital and he had worked as a security guard.
Friends and one-time colleagues converged on the corner as word of the killing quickly spread through this small North Country city.
"They were always happy," said Lisa Varney, a former housekeeper at the hospital who said she knew the couple.
But Varney and others said the couple had been having marital trouble and recently split.
"She just left him like two weeks ago," Varney said.
Billie-Jo Wright said the couple had several children, including a 20-year-old son, Christopher, whom she also had worked with at the hospital.
The shooting occurred in a neighborhood just north of the city's downtown center. Bay Street is dotted with multifamily homes and large houses that have been converted into office space for doctors and insurance dealers.
Steven Rolleston was in the back yard of his home on nearby Madison Street when he heard "popping sounds" that he said he initially thought were the backfire of a vehicle.
Rolleston said he later came to the homicide scene after seeing the police officers massing at the parking lot and television trucks lining up for live broadcasts.
"It's scary," he said. "It's scary."