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Illinois remembers 4 slain in Rockford knife attack after authorities charge 22-year-old man in rampage

Police tape surrounds several houses as police investigate a mass stabbing along the 2300 block of Holmes Street on March 27, 2024, in Rockford, Illinois.

ROCKFORD, Ill. — Early Thursday, Craig Garr stood in his driveway in southeast Rockford and watched a tow service load his Jeep Grand Cherokee onto the bed of a truck.

Blood was still spattered on his driveway. It was on his door frame, on his yard decorations and all over two rocks that usually sat by his front door but on Thursday were lying near a set of deep tire tracks on his front lawn.

From his kitchen window and then his front door on Wednesday, Garr, 74, witnessed a man stab, beat up and run over the neighborhood’s longtime mail carrier, killing him in an attack that authorities said spanned multiple homes throughout the neighborhood and left four dead, including a 15-year-old girl, and

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