You decide.
Posted on 03/28/2024 9:19:44 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
A 22-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a stabbing spree Wednesday afternoon in Rockford, Illinois, that left four people dead, including a U.S. postal worker and a teenage girl, and seven other victims injured, police said.
The suspect, Christian Soto, was arrested in the frenzied attack, according to the Rockford Police Department. Soto faces four counts of murder and seven counts of attempted murder, as well as two counts of home invasion with a dangerous weapon, authorities said.
A motive for the attack remains under investigation, police said.
The names of the slain victims were not immediately released, but police said they include a 15-year-old girl, a 63-year-old woman, a 49-year-old man, and a 22-year-old man. One of the victims was said to be in critical condition, with four others in serious condition.
"Words can't even express my thoughts right now; this is a pretty painstaking event," Rockford Police Chief Carla Redd said at a news conference Wednesday, adding, "This was a heinous crime."
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Was the knife an assault knife?
The attacks unfolded around 1:14 p.m., local time, in a residential neighborhood in southeast Rockford, which is about 88 miles northeast of Chicago, according to authorities, who noted this was a “multi-jurisdictional crime scene.”
Rockford, Illinois is west of Chicago.
I know a family very well, from there.
You decide.
Suspect’s name is Christian Soto - looks like a meth head. Or somebody beat hell out of him. Or both.
Which psych medication was he on?
How many did the "clip" hold?
It might have been one of those awful assault bayonets that are so evil that they make an ordinary rifle into an “assault rifle”.
Yeah, northeast of Chicago is in Lake Michigan.
Clearly a white nationalist patriarchy bible fanatic maga hat wearing suburbanite that doubts the 2020 election.
Prayers to the all that are now suffering due to this person.
But gun control!
I remember over fifty five years ago, 1968, when the democrats were trying to get gun registration passed. Someone wrote a letter to the Editor saying that...
“In Mexico more people each year are killed with knives than with guns in the USA!”
The Editor wrote back: “That was because Mexico has a culture of ‘macho’ something we do not have in the United States.”
Well surprise, surprise! It’s here and has been here for years!
If he goes to prison the first thing the inmates will do is knock out his front teeth.
It’s in the middle of Lake Michigan?..................
That actor recently passed away, may he rest in peace.
Supposedly those lines were adlibbed..............
Eighty-eight miles northeast of Chicago is in Lake Michigan. It is about 12 miles SE offshore of Holland, MI. Check out Google Maps.
Rockford is a hole. The only difference between this murder and hundreds of others is that you know about it.
I am there. Actually, I’m in Loves Park, just North of Rockford. I used to live close to that particular neighborhood.
One of my wife’s friends’ husband was injured by that guy. He’s a hero, he stopped one of the attacks.
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