Afternoon News Update: Thursday October 16
- Authorities are searching for a man suspected of shooting two sheriff's deputies in McHenry County. Investigators believe Scott Peters fled after opening fire with a rifle as deputies responded to a domestic dispute this morning in Holiday Hills. Police are warning the public that he should be considered armed and extremely dangerous.
- Winnebago County officials say they still haven't decided where they'll store bodies and conduct autopsies despite the approaching demolition of the Winnebago County morgue. County Board Chairman Scott Christiansen has suggested setting up temporary cooling trailers. But the Coroner says such a set up could require the undignified moving of bodies.
- Rockford officials are considering plans for cleaning up three former industrial sites with federal money. The city has received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for restoring polluted sites downtown or nearby. Removal of asbestos from the former Ingersoll factory along the Rock River will cost $1.1 million.
- A 21-year-old Rockford man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing a 16-year-old boy in 2011. Shawnee Clanton pleaded guilty this week to second-degree murder in the death of Marcell Egan. Police say Egan was found suffering from a gunshot wound at Patriots' Gateway Community Center.
- The Illinois State Board of Education has released statistics showing that more than half of public school students in the state are considered low-income, and for the first time less than half of public school students are white. The agency said yesterday that the state's white public school student population has dropped to 49.9 percent, while its Hispanic population has grown to 24.6 percent. It also said 51.5 percent of all Illinois public school students are considered low-income.
- A Dekalb man has been charged with attempted murder after police say he stabbed his former girlfriend's new boyfriend multiple times. Police say 19-year-old Mustafa Sahin broke into an apartment last night, where he then stabbed another man several times and fled. The victim was rushed the hospital for treatment of serious stab wounds. Sahin was captured later in Chicago and was transported to DeKalb where he faces multiple felony charges including attempted 1st degree murder.
- Wisconsin Investigators have ruled a Stateline area man’s death as a suicide. The Rock County Corner says that 20-year-old Hykyme Haye’s gunshot wound is consistent with evidence of a self-inflicted injury. Police arrived on scene on the 500 block of 8th Street shortly after midnight this morning to find a man lying down on the sidewalk. He was transported to hospital and later died.
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