Angela Angie C. Taylor, 57, of the Watseka area (residence listed as Donovan, Illinois), died on May 12, 2025, after being shot near the railroad crossing at 2150 North Road and 2750 East just outside Iroquois. According to law enforcement accounts, Taylor stopped when she found a truck left blocking the tracks. A man later identified as 38-year-old Nicholas Gregory of Milford allegedly approached her vehicle and fired a single shot. Taylor was taken to Ascension St. Mary’s Hospital in Kankakee and died that night; the coroner attributed her death to a gunshot wound to the head.

Reports describe a chaotic sequence before and after the shooting: Gregory is said to have left a vehicle on the tracks, entered a nearby home and taken a vehicle from the property, then returned to the crossing where the shooting occurred. He reportedly later appeared at a Watseka residence, threatened the occupant, and was ultimately located in Jasper County, Indiana, pursued into Newton County and taken into custody.

Taylor was remembered as an artist, a mother, a grandmother and an office manager for KBS Railroad who had worked many years for the U.S. Postal Service; her husband Aaron Dean Taylor had died about two months earlier. Does anyone have information about that stretch of North Road or the crossing on the night of May 12 that could help clarify what happened?