Manchester, Illinois shooting: 5 dead, one injured
Source: KSDK.com
VILLAGE OF MANCHESTER, Ill (KSDK) - Five people are dead and one injured in a shooting in the Village of Manchester, Illinois, according to Mayor Ronald Drake.
WLDS told NewsChannel 5 a suspect is in custody.
The Scott County Sheriff's Department said a child was taken to a Springfield, Illinois hospital.
The pastor of Manchester Baptist Church told NewsChannel 5 that the murders happened inside a public housing complex on East Street Wednesday morning.
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Roy Rolling
(6,856 posts)Right wing propaganda on gun violence in 3....2....1.....
"if England had more guns someone could have intervened and protected the victims"
Except propagandists don't use the word "intervene". Too many syllables.
csziggy
(34,120 posts)xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)Myrina
(12,296 posts).... you know we'll hear
"Where do they get money to buy guns but not pay rent?" ...
"Those people shouldn't be allowed to have guns" ....
"What do you expect from those people?" ...
"That's why my house is armed - because Those people are coming to rob/pillage/rape all of us" ...
"Those people don't value life anyway: ...
or the old standard I see all the time on my local news comment board: "Just thinning the herd"
TheCowsCameHome
(40,163 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)harmonicon
(12,008 posts)jambo101
(797 posts)And instead continued to focus on the Boston story..
Paladin
(28,204 posts)Mass murders by deranged, gun-bearing young men are now so common in the U.S. that they no longer merit extended news coverage, absent some attention-grabbing element---twenty slaughtered first graders, for instance, or a Muslim terrorist angle to get the masses all hot and bothered.
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