Dateline Chicago 3075

AP (CHICAGO) -- 24 APRIL 3075 -- This morning seventeen people were brutally murdered in Chicago in one of the most bizarre cases of terrorism yet seen on Terra.

Five men, already deemed “The Chicago Five” at most media outlets, entered the Wilcox Building on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, and attacked a small business center on the 41st floor.  Four of the men were wearing ski masks, while the last one wore what appeared to be a gorilla costume.

The five men overwhelmed two off-duty TerraSec officers, Dale Hurbeard, 34, and Paul Escobar, who heroically attempted to stop the attack.  Escobar was brutally decapitated.

The attackers then bound the wrists of each of the fifteen workers on duty at the company, then told them they were going to kill them.  The scientists begged for their lives, so the attackers cut off the hands of all of the workers, still bound at the wrist.  The five men then set explosive charges on times around the office, and left.  A few minutes later, the charges exploded, killing the maimed people on the 41st floor.

This afternoon salvaged security footage of the attack showed the sheer vicious horror of the attacks, right up until the explosive killed the disabled victims, screaming for help up to the end.  The Voice of Blake has deemed the raw footage unfit for public broadcast.

Reacting to the news, Precentor TerraSec David Alsace said, “This level of violence cannot even be called callous --  it is a willful infliction of maximum suffering on innocent people.  The continued attacks by Successor House, ComStar, and Clan agents on our people only makes more obvious the depraved depths that our enemies will sink to.  I assure you, the full resources of TerraSec are being brought to bear to identify these offenders and see them brought to justice.  This afternoon I am instructing the Office of Terran Security to place these five culprits at the top of TerraSec’s Most Wanted, and we are authorizing a ten million C-Bill reward on each of them.”

At this time all five suspects remain at large.  Any tips should be forwarded to the Office of Terran Security at Geneva.