ROCKFORD About 50 people gathered outside of City Hall Saturday afternoon to protest the most recent police-involved shootings in the area.
May 30th Alliance spokesman Leslie Rolfe distributed booklets documenting the history of the Winnebago-Boone County Integrity Task Force.
The assembled crowd then took to the streets, marching west along East State Street.
Some carried signs while others chanted “No justice, no peace” and “Black lives matter.”
The demonstrators crossed the Rock River and marched to the Winnebago County Administration Building on Elm Street, where they scrawled messages of protest on the sidewalk including “They can’t kill us all” and “We want justice.”
Protesters denounce police shootings in Rockford area in event outside City Hall Ken DeCoster, Rockford Register Star
ROCKFORD About 50 people gathered outside of City Hall Saturday afternoon to protest the most recent police-involved shootings in the area.
May 30th Alliance spokesman Leslie Rolfe distributed booklets documenting the history of the Winnebago-Boone County Integrity Task Force.
The assembled crowd then took to the streets, marching west along East State Street.
Some carried signs while others chanted “No justice, no peace” and “Black lives matter.”
The demonstrators crossed the Rock River and marched to the Winnebago County Administration Building on Elm Street, where they scrawled messages of protest on the sidewalk including “They can’t kill us all” and “We want justice.”
ROCKFORD Angel Nunez was walking in front of his Illinois Avenue home Sunday evening when a vehicle suddenly pulled up and someone wearing a hoodie jumped out and ran past him.
Nunez said he didn’t recognize the person, but he thought he heard him say “grandpa” as he rushed by. Seconds later, a police officer ran past the 74-year-old Rockford man.
The man in the hooded sweatshirt scaled a wooden fence that separated Nunez s backyard from that of a neighboring fourplex. Nunez said when the officer reached the fence, he peered over it and fired his weapon.
The brief foot chase was over. Nunez said he looked over the fence.
ROCKFORD Rose Ndoroum called the police Saturday after she and her husband, Faustin Guetigo, had a fight.
It wasn t the first time the couple fought, and it was not the first time police were called. It was the last.
Guetigo, 27, was fatally shot during an altercation with a Winnebago County sheriff s deputy inside the family s Bellwort Drive ranch-style duplex.
Monday morning, glass from a shattered screen door was still on the blood-stained concrete outside the couple s home. Larger blood stains remained on the kitchen floor and white tape marked multiple bullet holes in the walls leading to the basement.
Also present Monday in the other half of the duplex: Ndoroum, 20, her mother, the couple s 2-year-old child and Ndoroum s 6-year-old.
A deputy was knocked unconscious during the confr, authorities said.
Exactly how the shooting unfolded is unclear.
Illinois State Police Sgt. Chuck Davidson, commander of the task force, and Winnebago County State s Attorney J. Hanley stressed Monday that they are still early in the investigation into two shootings by law enforcement over the weekend. We re not going to get into that level of detail, we re less than 48 hours from that incident, Hanley said when asked about the sequence of events in Saturday s shooting. For the integrity of the investigation, that level of detail is not going to be disclosed at this time.