We haven’t had a lot of mass murders to talk about in 2024 so far, which is a good thing. Sure, the Gun Violence Archive would argue differently, but we know the issues with their reporting, so I don’t actually care what they argue.
Yet the unfortunate thing is that no one believed it would go on indefinitely. Sooner or later, something was bound to happen.
And, unfortunately, it did.
It’s just not what people expected to happen.
Four people were killed and five others were wounded in and near Rockford, Illinois, on Tuesday in what the city’s mayor called a “random and senseless act of violence.”
Some of the victims, including a woman who fled a home invasion in Winnebago County and a man who tried to help her, were stabbed, officials said.
A suspect, a 22-year-old man, has been taken into custody, and police are not looking for anyone else involved in the violence at “multiple scenes” in Rockford and an area of the county shortly after 1 p.m., authorities said.
“Words can’t even express my thoughts right now,” Rockford Police Chief Carla Redd told reporters. She said the suspect committed “heinous crimes.”
One person was injured and in critical condition, and four others were stable after an adult man “attacked and stabbed multiple individuals,” the police department said on X.
The dead have not been identified. They are a 15-year-old girl, a 63-year-old woman, a 49-year-old man and a 22-year-old man, police said.
The causes of death and injury for all victims were not clear. Not all of the victims were stabbed, Redd said, and none were shot.
It is not the caliber of the tool, but the caliber of the individual holding it.
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