Several Shootings Reported in Champaign

Monday, 10 June 2013

Community leaders from the north side of Champaign are calling for an end to violence as police look for suspects after a series of weekend shootings injured six men.

Champaign police say they have arrested a 19-year-old man as a suspect in one of the shootings but are still looking for other suspects.

Police spokeswoman Rene Dunn couldn't provide information about the conditions of the victims of the Friday and Saturday shootings.

But she says she believes all survived.

Lekevie Johnson is the pastor at Jericho Missionary Baptist Church.

He says some people in the neighborhoods where the shootings happened are now afraid to go outside their homes.

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