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The man accused of slaughtering four people and injuring others during a brutal rampage in Illinois on Wednesday has been charged with multiple counts of murder, attempted murder and home invasion.
Christian Ivan Soto, 22, was booked into Winnebago County Jail in the early hours of Thursday, around 12 hours after the bloody killing spree began.
In total, four people are dead, including a 15-year-old girl and a 49-year-old mailman. The other victims were a 22-year-old man and a 63-year-old woman.
Witnesses described Soto as being 'bloodied' and 'resisting arrest' as he was hauled away by arresting officers.
During a press conference in the aftermath of the horror, the local police chief said that investigators had not uncovered a 'clear motive' for the bloodshed that occurred around 90 miles west of Chicago.
Police in the area responded to a series of locations at 1:14pm after receiving calls about a burglary. From there, a manhunt began resulting in the suspect being arrested in the vicinity at 1:35pm.
One victim, who survived, was stabbed in the face as she tried to escape the deranged attacker.
A 22-year-old man named Christian Ivan Soto was booked into a local jail in Rockford on multiple counts of murder hours after the attack
A 22-year-old man is in custody in relation to the crime. He has not been identified nor has a motive been released publicly for the horrific attacks in sleepy Rockford, Illinois
Not all of the victims found at multiple addresses in the city had stab wounds and none were shot
Police later identified those victims as a 15-year-old girl, a 63-year-old woman, a 49-year-old man and a 22-year-old man. Their names were not released
Three of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene, one died later at a local hospital.
Five other people were rushed to local hospitals to be treated for injuries, four were released as one person is still being treated in serious condition.
'We are reeling as a community from another senseless act of violence,' Rockford Mayor Tom McNamara told the media in the aftermath of the tragedy.
One local, Eric Patterson, told the Rockford Register Star that he saw two teenagers bloodied from an attack and a middle aged woman being taken away in an ambulance.
Patterson said that the mailman was run over by a pick
