Overview
- Home security footage timestamped 9:11 p.m. Monday shows a masked, bespectacled 15-year-old in a black-and-red clown suit approaching a front door and saying, "I've been looking for you."
- Less than an hour later police found 78-year-old John Wesley Allen Sr. dead from multiple stab wounds on a nearby road, according to the St. Clair County coroner and local reports.
- Illinois State Police said special agents quickly identified the juvenile, located him at a nearby residence and took him into custody; the suspect has not been publicly named.
- Officials are working to collect all circulated doorbell and other video as they build the case, and investigators have not released a motive or any charging details.
- Neighbors described feeling frightened after the clown-costumed teen approached a home where an elderly woman was alone, and investigators asked anyone with information to contact police at 618-806-7611.