Cutter's Blog - Supplemental
The cities of Sterling and Rock Falls are buzzing about a couple of murder cases that involve and possibly involve Nick Sheley, a 28-year-old ex-convict.
He is wanted in Whiteside County for the murder of 93-year-old Russell Reed of Sterling, held up a house and forced checks to be written for him, and stole numerous cars. That we know was an act of Sheley's.
On Monday night, four people were shot dead at a Rock Falls apartment (12th avenue and Ave. A) not too far from my cousin's house and grandma and aunt's house. Sheley is a person of high interest.
To someone from Chicago, this seems like something that happens often. But Sterling and Rock Falls do not see these murders that often. Rock Falls had a double-murder nearly 30 years ago, but nothing like this in a very long time.
This creates a huge amount of panic throughout the Ster-Rock community. Just check the Public Comments section of the local newspaper (www.saukvalley.com).
There are over 700 comments on this as of this write-up. These comments are the biggest reason why I never listen to newspaper comments, or post any newspaper comments. The commenters are all in panic mode and posting rumors all over the place.
According to the comments, there are "reported" murders at every street corner, gas station, restruant, park and cornfield in the area, and x-number of bodies have been found all over the place.
Newspaper reporters are staying the course and only writing about factual information. That's good and responsible reporting. There were even comments about how the paper wouldn't listen to what they heard, going as far as crying out the 1st Amendement. There were also a lot of comments deleted because they go against board rules.
Stay calm and let the police, and the newspapers, do their job.
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