Unidentified people hug in Elgin, Ill., on April 15, 2001, the day after the call came into the Elgin Police Department to respond to what we would now call a mass shooting at JB's bar in Elgin. (George LeClaire/Daily Herald via AP) George LeClaire ELGIN â The desperate pounding on Steinar Andersen's door was ominous in the way only loud noises in the night can be. His wife, Penny, was out with friends at JB's Pub, just two blocks away. She was not among the three women banging on his door to tell him she was in trouble. Anderson swept his 11-year-old stepson, Travis, out of a peaceful dream and drove him into the middle of a nightmare.