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A rural Illinois bar owner was gunned down in an “execution style” killing allegedly by a convicted murderer shortly before opening her business for the day on Monday. Courtney Drysdale, 30, was fatally shot by suspected gunman Julius E. Burkes Jr. just after 11 a.m. as she was going about her normal routine, according to the Kankakee County Sheriff’s Office. Police responded to The Line bar, located on Route 114 in Momence, Ill. at the Indiana border, where they discovered Drysdale’s lifeless body. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Burkes, 47, allegedly entered the bar brandishing a firearm, demanding…

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