Winchester News

Illinois State Police officials have released investigative findings into the Manchester homicides where five victims were found shot at a home April 24.

Investigators were still trying to piece together the events that led to Scott County's first homicide in two decades, and why the suspect, Rick O. Smith allegedly walked into a home Wednesday and shot an entire family - including a 6-year-old girl who survived - before he was killed during a shootout with police.

Illinois State police confirmed the deaths. All of the bodies were found in a house and had been shot, according to preliminary police reports.

Police tape is seen around a house in Manchester, Ill., Wednesday, April 24, 2013, where the bodies of five people were found slain early Wednesday in the tiny southwestern Illinois town.

Five people are dead and one injured in a shooting Wednesday morning in the Village of Manchester, Illinois, according to Mayor Ronald Drake.

Five people, including two children, were shot and killed in an early Wednesday in an apartment in Manchester, Ill., according to local media reports.

Five people were shot and killed in Winchester, Illinois today eighty miles north of St.

Police have surrounded the small town of Manchester, Ill. Wednesday morning after reports of a deadly shooting took place in the early morning hours.