Four people are dead including a mail carrier and at least seven are injured with one in critical condition after a suspect allegedly stabbed multiple people Wednesday in Rockford and Winnebago County.

A suspect is in custody, but police know of no motive behind the attacks.

"It makes no sense," Patterson said. "It’s almost like playing a video game, but it's reality. It makes no sense. It’s like Grand Theft Auto. I'm going to run over the mailman here. I'm going to stab a couple people there. I am going to go in this house over here. It’s not making sense. You can’t rationalize this."

Winnebago County State’s Attorney J. Hanley said Soto later told police he had gone to Schupbach’s house, in the 2300 block of Holmes Street, earlier that afternoon to allegedly smoke marijuana.
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Soto told police he believed the drugs to have been “laced with something,” fueling his subsequent spree, Hanley said.
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In interviews with police while in custody, Soto claimed to have limited knowledge of the crimes, according to Hanley.

... Even though four is the cut-off.

“If the last couple of days doesn’t show you, life is just too short to speak hate,” referring to the murder of Jason Jenkins, who was stabbed to death while working at a Rockford Walmart on Sunday.

According to the criminal complaint, surveillance video from the store showed Timothy Carter, 28, grabbing two knives off of the store shelves — a silver kitchen knife, and a red hunting knife — and then wandering around the store “giving all of the African American people dirty looks.”
He then reportedly walked up behind Jenkins and stabbed him once in the back, according to the court documents.

The governor’s office announced the pair’s resignations within hours of each other nearly two weeks after Crosetti Brand was released from Stateville Correctional Center. Brand is now charged with stabbing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and killing her 11-year-old son the day after his release.

State’s Attorney: Rockford murder suspect claimed ‘laced’ drugs fueled killing spree


Heard a bit on the radio yesterday about how China is operating a large number of grow ops around the country. Seems like the war on drugs has become a war with drugs