Man arrested in fatal shootings of 3 in small Illinois town

CULLOM, In miserable health. — A man has been arrested in connection with theChristmasDay shootings of three other folks in a exiguous eastern Illinois neighborhood, authorities mentioned Wednesday.

The suspect, 53, changed into arrested Wednesday and jailed on three counts of first-diploma abolish, pronounce police mentioned Thursday. A court docket listening to changed into anticipated Friday.

The our bodies of a 51-year-former man, 48-year-former woman and a 27-year-former man were realized at a home early Wednesday morning in Cullom.

Dispatchers obtained a name regarding the shootings quickly after 2 a.m. Wednesday. The names of the victims, their relationships to the suspect and a motive in the motivate of the shootings were now by some means released by authorities.

The town is about 95 miles (153 kilometers) southwest of Chicago and has about 550 residents.

“We’re a exiguous neighborhood. We’re a quiet neighborhood. We don’t maintain things love this happen,” Mayor Barbara Hahn urged The Pantagraph for a myth Thursday. “That’s the tragedy of it. All people knows every varied.”

On Wednesday, Hahn alerted residents regarding the shootings overTwitter.

“I on the complete don’t compose this,” she wrote. “Nonetheless, a unpleasant (incident) took home in our puny town on thisChristmas… our first responders and families concerned certain would possibly per chance perchance also exhaust some prayers of comfort. God knows who needs the aid. It would possibly most likely perchance perchance happen anywhere.”