Teen's Slaying Baffles Joliet Police

Joliet police said Wednesday they are baffled that no witnesseshave turned up in the Tuesday lunch-hour murder of a 19-year-oldMinooka girl in a busy section of Joliet.

The body of Danielle McTee, a summer clerk at a Joliet bank, wasfound in an outside stairwell behind a church across the street fromwhere she worked.

She had been shot once in the back of the neck, police said.

McTee usually took her lunch break around noon on the front lawnof the church, according to Joliet Police Sgt. Robert Kelly. Asecurity guard from the First National Bank of Joliet branch, whereMcTee worked, discovered her body at 3:30 p.m. Earlier, another bankemployee twice searched for McTee when she failed to return fromlunch.

A woman planting flowers in front of the church didn't see orhear anything suspicious, Kelly said. McTee was a graduate ofMinooka High School and was planning to attend college in the fall,police said.