Overview
- Illinois State Police said special agents took an unidentified 15-year-old into custody in connection with the killing of a 78-year-old man in East St. Louis.
- Doorbell and home-security footage showing a masked person in a clown costume approaching a nearby house has circulated online and is being gathered by investigators.
- The victim was identified by the St. Clair County Coroner as John Wesley Allen Sr., who died of multiple stab wounds.
- Neighbors reported seeing a youth carrying or twirling a large knife and roaming the neighborhood before police arrived, though authorities say there is no ongoing threat to the public.
- Officials have declined to release a motive, any relationship between the juvenile and the victim, or whether formal charges have been filed as the probe continues.