Authorities say four people were killed and five were wounded in stabbings in northern Illinois. The Rockford Police Chief said Wednesday that a suspect is in police custody and was being questioned. The police chief said one of the people wounded remained in critical condition.
ROCKFORD, Ill. — Four people were killed and five were hurt in stabbings in northern Illinois on Wednesday, authorities said.
Rockford’s population is about 150,000 and it’s 90 miles miles northwest of Chicago.She said the Rockford Police received a medical call at 1:14 p.m. followed by additional calls for police and paramedics. She said in the city, “we have four individuals who are deceased. We have one that’s in critical condition right now and an additional four that are in stable condition.”“We have a suspect in custody who is being interviewed at this time,” she said.
“All of the sudden, we heard police run up on both sides of the house screaming ‘Stop! Get down!’,” Vanessa Hy told WREX-TV. “Then they ran into the backyard and after a few minutes we saw them bringing the suspect down the driveway in handcuffs and he was very bloody.”Rockford Mayor Tom McNamara wrote on the city’s Facebook page that “multiple jurisdictions” are “working on multiple crime scenes to develop an understanding of what transpired in an effort to prevent this from happening again.
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