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Even now, more than 100 days later, the terrifying scenarios play on a loop in Twanda Carroll’s mind. What if her apartment hadn’t been empty that night in June? What if her three young grandchildren had been staying with her like they did every summer? What if she and her daughter had decided not to spend an extra night with family in Wisconsin? “I still get emotional,” Carroll, 51, said ...

On June 18, a Willowbrook man was shot and killed along with several others who suffered from gunshot wounds during a Juneteenth Celebration. On Oct. 6, an Aurora man accused of firing a handgun at the Juneteenth Celebration in Unincorporated Willowbrook was denied pre-trial release by Judge Joshua Dieden at the state's request. As the investigation continues, the DuPage County Sheriff's Office encourages anybody with further information to call (630) 407-2400.

An Aurora teen is accused of firing a handgun at a Juneteenth celebration near Willowbrook more than three months ago.

An Aurora teen is accused of firing a handgun at a Juneteenth celebration near Willowbrook more than three months ago.

An Aurora man has been charged with firing a gun at a Willowbrook Juneteenth celebration last summer, prosecutors announced.

A man shot and killed in a mass DuPage County shooting last week had dozens of previous encounters with law enforcement, including arrests for battery, residential burglary, attempted robbery, home invasion and driving while intoxicated.

DuPage County Board Chair Deborah Conroy will meet with community leaders to discuss needs in the Willowbrook Corner area after last weekends fatal strip mall shooting.

Ashley Miller called it her “new normal.” It’s a future in which Reginald Meadows — the father of her two children, her junior high sweetheart and the man she planned to marry — is gone. “I’m left trying to pick up the pieces,” she said through tears Wednesday, “trying to make sense of everything, trying to help my kids understand this confusion. This nonsense. Because Reginald, he wasn’t just ...

"Im trying to figure out this new normal that Im presented with," his fiancee said Wednesday.

”I felt a bullet rush past my face,” recalled Mariah Dixon, 23, of the mass shooting at a Willowbrook strip mall parking lot. “It felt like a bumblebee passing by.”