Posted on 04/24/2013 6:32:37 AM PDT by Doogle
MANCHESTER, IL (KMOX) – KMOX News has confirmed earlier reports of a shooting in the small village of Manchester, Illinois that has left five people dead.
Citing a source with the Illinois State Police, WLDS reports five people were killed and one suspect is in custody after a police chase. The mayor of Manchester has since confirmed that report to KMOX.
(Excerpt) Read more at stlouis.cbslocal.com ...
My husband has relatives who live just south of there, Roodhouse and White Hall. I’m glad they have someone in custody.
5 people seems like overkill for a personal matter... this
seems like a business matter with a strong message to other people.
Dare we raise the dreaded “drug related” words? It could be a turf dispute.
Dunno tex .. it’s up on the other side of St.Louis, but still only ~100mi from where I was born .. if not a ‘bidness’ thing as you surmise, it’d be one helluva complicated romantic thing gone sideways !
Oh, no, it couldn’t be a drug dispute, drugs are illegal in Chicago and all the rest of Ilinois and maybe even St. Louis.
Rural illinois has a drug problem. We also have, allegedly, highly placed individuals in the justice system here who have looked the other way on occasion. Manchester is not far from here. There is public housing in our area generally, but unless you’re talking Springfield, I’d guess meth had more to do with this than the ‘Amish.”
Wiki is notoriously inaccurate
Do you have some sort of vested interest in denying that white people sometimes live in subsidized housing and are involved in drug related killings? I grew up in a small town in Illinois with no black people and we had a subsidized housing development, plenty of drugs and plenty of violence.
Yeah, almost certainly meth-related. There’s a lot of poor white trash out in those small towns. I grew up with them. One childhood acquaintance is in Menard doing life without parole for murdering his parents and brother and another is on death row in Florida.
LOL! Of course, the illegality of drugs is exactly why people shoot each other over them - there are no shootouts between dealers of the legal drug alcohol.
refer to previous post
How can that be? I thought they had already gone door-to-door and confiscated guns in the housing projects?
That’s Chicago. You’re off by a few miles.
Not for basic facts like this. If there is a politically sensitive issue, then the pages often get edited with inaccurate info.
It began at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday morning when police responded to a federal housing complex on East Street in Manchester.
Five people at the complex were killed and one – a six-year-old female child – was injured.
The victim then fled the scene in a Chevy Lumina. Just after 7 a.m. a chase between police and the victim ensued and the lone shooting suspect was taken into custody after shots were fired. Police say the suspect “was in possession of multiple weapons” when he was arrested at 7:27. The suspect was then transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2013/04/24/report-five-killed-in-manchester-illinois-shooting/
Those pesky Amish again, breaking gun control laws?
It's interesting that the offensive term of "poor white trash" gets a free pass here on Free Republic. Yet there's the near universal use here of Amish as a euphemism for black thugs. And yes, I realize that Amish here on FR has morphed in meaning over the years from its initial coding of muzzies to also encompass blacks.
I suggest then we substitute “Watusi” for “Poor White Trash”.
As always, dfwgator, you come through! :-) That actually makes some sense in that it follows and parallels the construct of "Amish" for well...you know.
You got a more politically correct name? Something like “Melanin Challenged Disadvantaged Rural Americans”?
that only covers your a$$
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