What to know about the deadly Rockford, Illinois, stabbing spree

ABC News ^ | March 28, 2024 | Bill Hutchinson and Leah Sarnoff

[Robert DeLong]

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[MIchaelTArchangel]

I guess the people of Rockford IL got screwed by foreigners.

[Organic Panic]

I like visiting the garden and spending the day there when I visit family.

“A motive for the attack remains under investigation,”

I am going to assume he is very well known to the local law enforcement already.

[lastchance]

Amen.

[Deo volente]

Mother is quoted saying he’s such a nice boy and everyone’s in shock etc. Some minor scrapes with the law, one arrest for damaging property, traffic tickets.

I listened to the press conference. He ran over the mailman twice which killed him, and took a baseball bat to the head of the 15-yr old girl which killed her.

Tall tree, short rope...in a just world.

[coalminersson]

most dairy queens carry Orange Julius but they don’t know how to make it right.

[2nd Amendment]

The only thing worse than a black feral thug is a white feral thug

[Bshaw]

“Yeah, northeast of Chicago is in Lake Michigan.”

When reading the article I thought, they surely must mean Southwest of Chicago....

[Dr. Sivana]

My family lived in the Rockford area for 15 years, and in Rockford proper for half of that. We went to St. Mary Oratory (Institute of Christ the King) and I worked at TAN Books.

There is a lot of good about many of the people, and it was affordable. It has been on the edge for decades. Decades of local stupid political decisions were bad enough. I knew that legalized slot machines and recreational pot would push it over the edge. Very, very, very sad.

[Dr. Sivana]

I lived less than a mile from the area. Alpine Road is perpetually plagued with potholes. Rockford Blacktop has a monopoly on road repairs and they use low grade materials.

[Deo volente]

Mayor seems like a nice chap. He was really broken up about this atrocity.

Again, I want to know everything about the monster that did this. Exceedingly cruel in his attack. This was not just a sudden reaction to cannabis. There’s a cause here that’s much darker.

[Dr. Sivana]

Cheap imported threaded fasteners absolutely devastated the city that was once known as “the screw capital of the world”.

It used to be a furniture hub as well. It still has the most amazing hardware store, Nicholson's.

[Lurker]

“ I guess the people of Rockford IL got screwed by foreigners.”

During WWII industry in Rockford was delivering over 2,000,000 various types of fasteners every single day. They held planes, tanks, ships, and submarines together along with the myriad other products this country used to be able to produce in massive quantities.

So while your play on words is clever to a degree, what’s been done quite deliberately to American industry isn’t the least bit funny.

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[Dr. Sivana]

Rockford is a hole. The only difference between this murder and hundreds of others is that you know about it.

Rockford had 20 murders in 2023, not hundreds. That's for a population of about 140,000, so it isn't great, but there are worse holes. West State Street is pretty nasty (and easily avoided), but Perryville Road is fine, the northwest section and south of Harrison is also OK.

It wouldn't be so horrible if it weren't for the vampire known as Chicago.

https://www.rockrivercurrent.com/2024/02/21/rockford-police-report-drop-in-violent-crime-for-second-straight-year/

[Lurker]

See post 52.

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[Dr. Sivana]

I thought, they surely must mean Southwest of Chicago....

Nope again. Rockford is slightly NORTH of Chicago, even the though some people call it "downstate".

[Dr. Sivana]

See post 52.

That' MY post. Did you mean another one?

[ifinnegan]

North west.

Almost to Wisconsin.

[Dr. Sivana]

Almost to Wisconsin.

Yup. After the financial problems in 2008, unemployment in Rockford ballooned to 18%, highest in the country. Eventually, I had to drive 90 miles each way to Madison for work. In all my years, no jobs in Chicago or even its suburbs ever took me on. We had to move when the right job came along.

[Lurker]

Sorry. Meant 53.

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