Coroner identifies three Normal residents in mobile home park shooting

Posted on August 31, 2021
Officers were called Monday about 3:44 p.m. to Landings Estates located on Lambert Drive in north Normal. (Photo courtesy HOI ABC)

By Neil Doyle

NORMAL – A man and woman in their 60s and a woman in her 50s have been identified after a shooting Monday afternoon at a mobile home park in north Normal.

McLean County Coroner Kathy Yoder pronounced all three dead at the scene: 66-year-old Ronald Reiner, 64-year-old Sharon Reiner, and 59-year-old Julie Davis, all from Normal.

A news release from Illinois State Police did not identify any of the people named in the release as suspects or victims. At the scene on Monday, Normal Police told our news partner HOI ABC the suspect was a male.

Three others were wounded in the shooting and taken to area hospitals. ISP says one person has life-threatening injures and the other two with non-life threatening injuries.

ISP says the incident is still in the early stages and no other information is being released at this time.

Neil Doyle can be reached at [email protected]

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