Cahokia Heights man killed in shooting Friday on I-64, possibly causing highway closures msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Centreville police ask Illinois State Police to investigate officer-involved death
Belleville News-Democrat 16 hrs ago Carolyn P Smith, Belleville News-Democrat
Apr. 4 CENTREVILLE The Centreville Police Department has asked the Illinois State Police to investigate an officer-involved death of a man following a disturbance on Alcoa Drive on Friday night.
Diwone Wallace, 24, of the 3900 block of Alcoa Drive in Centreville Township, was pronounced dead at 7:23 p.m. Friday in the emergency room at Touchette Regional Hospital, said St. Clair County Coroner Calvin Dye Sr.
Centreville police would not discuss details and referred questions to the Illinois State Police.
Illinois State Police issued a press release Saturday confirming that Centreville police asked the Division of Criminal Investigations Zone 6 to investigate an officer-involved death.
Samuel Johnson
St. Clair County Coroner Calvin Dye Sr. said that 55-year-old Samuel L. Johnson died of complications of pneumonia and COVID-19 at Memorial Hospital in Belleville late Friday night, according to the Belleville News-Democrat.
Johnson has been in custody since 2016, when he was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the March 2, 2005, stabbing deaths of hairdresser Michael Cooney and two of his customers, 79-year-old Doris Fischer and 82-year-old Dorothy Bone. The two women were sisters. Since he was charged, Johnson maintained his innocence.
At the time of the slayings, Terry Delaney, the police chief in the southwestern Illinois community at the time said that Cooney was the intended victim of a “rage-driven killing.”
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