a short while later, a customer walked in jason mcdaniel. amaya ordered him to get behind the counter. he pleaded to take the wallet and let them both go but the gunman wasn't having any of it. and prepared to tie up mcdaniel as well. but he reached for something on the floor leafing his gun on the counter. jason mcdaniel lunged forward and grabbed the gun. >> he took his hand off the gun and that's when i rushed him. then he came back at me. that's when the struggle ensued and the shots went off. >> reporter: the struggle happened after the -- the employee called 911 with her tied up hands. mcdaniel was able to hit him across the forehead. the gun went off at the same time. then mcdaniel says he shot him again. police have not confirmed that gary amaya is the so-called honey bee killer responsible for the shootings in october. the lot of evidence is matching up. including the type of gun that was used and the truck used at the scene. he believes amaya was there to kill. >> there was no type of okay give me the money, i want to leave. there w

jason mcdaniel tried to reason with him. on set with wgn this morning, mcdaniels says amaya wasn't interested. >> there was no type of okay, give me the money, i want to leave. there was no type of hurry. very calm. very like there to hurt somebody i think. that's thank was his intended goal. >> surveillance camera inside l.a. tan caught the quick struggle before mcdaniel shot amaya in the stomach. and now detectives are confirming another bizarre link to this case. a woman came into the chicago police department reporting that a man fitting amaya's description fired a shot at her around 1:30 in the morning. detectives say it was her purse found in amaya's truck later that same day. the story continues to unfold out here. in joliet, wgn news. >>> the winter storm that brought snow, cold and bone chilling winds to the mid west is moving toward the northeast today with more snow possible in parts of ohio, new york and pennsylvania. the storm buried much of northwest indiana where more than 100 vehicles were stuck on snow cover

and then customer jason mcdaniel enters the store and here he is confronted by amaya and told to standbehind the counter with the clerk. this is amaya is getting ready. see the rope to tie up mcdaniel. he sets down the gun and mcdaniel rushes amaya. mcdaniel shoots and kills amaya during a fight over that gun. ballistics tests confirm that amaya's gun was used by the person known as the honey bee gunman who killed a man and wounded two others back in october. >>> new charges in the kidnapping and murder of a man on chicago's west side. 36-year-old jeremy borders and darnell stokes are charged with killing the man. the border, stokes and another man, 34-year-old keith watts are also charged with kidnapping. police say the men approached the man as he worked on rehabbing a building and pretended they wanted to rent it. he was later found dead inside a vehicle in the garage. he had been badly beaten and stabbed. >>> chicago police officer and six other people were injured in a car accident on the south side. this happened just before 8:00 this morning at 76 and stony island. the officer w

that's when jason mcdaniel walked. >> into the manright into the man with the gun. >> reporter: he tried to reason with him and tell him he was a father. it didn't work. >> when i saw he had no sympathy for women and children, there was nothing else i could do. i knew we had to do something because it might be the last time to see my family again when omaya took his eyes off for a second, mcdaniel pushed him down and shottim. they found a light blue chevy block a few blocks away and the link to the honeybee investigation began. it was the same truck used by a man who went on a shooting spree in indiana and illinois in october. he killed one man and shot two more, asking about honeybees to one of the victims. the same gun was also used, a 38 caliber handgun. now neighbors in a small central illinois town of rankin outside of chicago wonder if they ever really know their neighbors. >> in a town of 400 people,erb is, everybody knows everybody's business. >> he lives two blocks from my house. i've been raising kids in this town for eight years so it's kind of creepy. >> reporter: creepy and

and that courageous customer, his name jason mcdaniel. does not think the gunman was there just to get money. 6. >> there was no -- no type of the money, give me the money, i want to leave. he was very calm there to hurt somebody, i think. really, that was his intended goal. >> now the honeybee killer nickname arose because the gunman in the october attacks reportedly once kept beehives and because he talked about bee keeping just before shooting one of his victims, thus honeybee killer. today, police say gary amaya worked with at a bee farm. spooky. >>> pork in congress, lawmakers vowing to stop the spending on the side but nothing changes. we have some numbers for you, you are going to hear this. >>> also, it is not for an episode of "house hunters "but the home and garden network, hgtv paying visit to this house, 1600 pennsylvania avenue. why? well, joe johns knows y he always has the good stuff, the stuff we never know, but joe johns, political pop, share that with us next. tsnship. we fill them with amazing technology. and we fill th