Four people were found dead and seven others were injured in a stabbing rampage across multiple areas in Rockford, Illinois, on Wednesday afternoon, police say, and a suspect is in custody.
A 15-year-old girl, a 63-year-old woman, a 49-year-old man, and a 22-year-old man were killed in the incident and five others who were injured were transported to local hospitals with “serious injuries,” the Rockford Police Department said in a news release Wednesday evening.
Five people were injured in the city of Rockford and two people were injured in the jurisdiction of Winnebago County, Rockford police spokesperson Michelle Marcomb told CNN.
Agreed, but that correct employment takes a lot of practice and training. I wonder if there’s been studies on the level of “damage” vs the perpetrators training/experience in these mass casualty events.
I don’t think that a person who got to the point where they wanted to murder a room full of people would have the planning skills and patience to do it with a knife.
I wouldn’t put it past a human to get to that point… Especially in the society we’ve built. And it’s possible they had it as a hobby, or are able to suffer through the training, practice, and planning without getting discovered. But likely they’d go with an easier option if available, like a gun, or an ied.
Guns also require less physical strength, coordination, and gives the user a sense of god-like power that a knife can’t.