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Rockford Police are turning to the public for information related to a shooting crime that took place on Wednesday afternoon in Rockford.

One man is in custody following a Monday night shooting at a Rockford bar.

One person is dead and two others are injured following a shooting on Rockford's west side.

UPDATE: The Winnebago County coroner's office now has identified the two fatality victims in last night's shooting. The female has been ID'd as 22-year-old Tirina Mitchell of the Rockford region. The male has been identified as 28-year-old Benito Martinez of the Rockford region...

On this day in history Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young released 'Ohio.' The song chronicled the tragic events that occurred at Kent State University just ten days prior when four students were killed by Ohio National Guard members. I had heard Graham Nash say that he and his bandmates were together when Neil Young grabbed a 'party favor' and his guitar and strolled out into the woods...

Four people, including the gunman, were killed and 16 others injured in a shooting at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas Wednesday evening.  Fort Hood officials said the gunman was a soldier who had been receiving mental health treatment and that he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

UPDATE 3:15 p.m. EST: The lockdown and shelter-in-place orders have been lifted, according to the Yale alert system. Police have been going door-to-door on campus searching for the gunman, though authorities will not confirm whether it may have been a hoax.