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AT NUNZIO’S crime, not top cop SPORTS, PAGE B1 GO, PAGE 3 OPINION, PAGE A11 Rockford Register Star Newspaper of the Rock River Valley Friday, June 19, 2015 rrstar.com Volume 160, Number 170 $1.00 IN THE COMMUNITY CHARLESTON NATION/WORLD SHOOTING Suspected gunman caught By Je! rey Collins Friend: Suspect and Russ Bynum ranted about race The Associated Press In recent weeks, Dylann CHARLESTON, S.C. — Storm Roof reconnected A white man who joined a with a childhood buddy he hadn’t seen in fi ve prayer meeting inside a his- years and started railing toric black church and then about the Trayvon Martin fatally shot nine people was case, about black people captured without resistance “taking over the world” Thursday after an all-night and about the need for manhunt, Charleston’s someone to do some- police chief said. thing about it for the sake Dylann Storm Roof, of “the white race,” the 21, spent nearly an hour friend said Thursday. On inside the church Wednes- Thursday, Roof, 21, was arrested in the shooting day night before killing six deaths of nine people women and three men, including the pastor, Chief during a prayer meet- Jonathan Ryan asks Gorman & Company representatives why they won’t buy out residents instead of ing at a historic black building new apartments. The community meeting Thursday at Gregory Elementary School was called to Greg Mullen said. A citizen church in Charleston — an discuss the potential South New Towne Drive housing development in Rockford. MAX GERSH/RRSTAR.COM spotted his car in Shelby, attack decried by stunned North Carolina, nearly four community leaders and hours away. politicians as a hate The chief wouldn’t dis- crime. A3 cuss a motive. Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. Tempers fl are over called it “pure, pure con- LOCAL centrated evil.” Stunned community leaders and politicians condemned the Bishop praises attack on The Emanuel pope’s encyclical African Methodist Episco- pal Church, and Attorney Rockford Bishop David a! ordable housing General Loretta Lynch said Malloy “was very, very the Justice Department gratifi ed by the encyclical” combative crowd about R o c k f o r d H o u s i n g of Pope Francis released Proposal on the board to relocate some has begun a hate crime the proposal, which his Authority complex on Thursday. The 180-page Fairgrounds families to New Towne Drive investigation. document challenges the company submitted to the the southeast side that President Barack Obama, world to stop pollution, to city Thursday. Gorman helped redevelop who personally knew the recycle and carpool, and By Lindsey Holden apartments at Fair- Rockford Community into 38 units of support- slain pastor, state Sen. to do without air condi- and Isaac Guerrero grounds Valley, a public Development Director ive housing for disabled Clementa Pinckney, said tioning — and makes it Rockford Register Star housing complex on the Todd Cagnoni said he people. these shootings have to a moral imperative to do west side. Gorman will and his sta! will take the The fi rm’s representa- stop. so. A4 ROCKFORD — An own and manage the next several days to read tives hoped the meeting “At some point, we as a Rockford native overfl ow crowd of neigh- units, and 88 percent the plan before making would allow them to more country will have to reckon borhood residents packed would be set aside for it available to the public. fully explain the pro- with the fact that this type has new TV show Gregory Elementary low-income residents. Gorman’s zoning applica- posal, but some audience of mass violence does not Rockford native Nata- School and blasted a plan The meeting comes weeks tion will be posted on the members barely allowed happen in other advanced sha Leggero has a new Thursday to build a! ord- after nearby residents city’s website early next them to complete their countries,” Obama said. scripted series, “Another able housing on the city’s began voicing opposition week, he said. presentation. Attendees Pinckney, 41, was a mar- Period,” on Comedy Cen- east side. to the plan; thousands Blakeley touted the alternately waved and ried father of two who spent tral. The show satirizes Hundreds of people of residents have signed success that Gorman has fanned themselves with 19 years in the South Caro- the self-indulgence of filled the school gym to paper and online petitions had with similar projects anti-RHA signs, with lina legislature. He became reality-television stars but sound off on a proposal opposing it. is set in turn-of-the-cen- in cities like Milwau- many interrupting speak- by Gorman & Company Gorman Illinois Market SEE SHOOTING, A7 tury Rhode Island. A4 kee, where low-income ers by yelling such things and the Rockford Hous- President André Blakley residents call multiple as “Why don’t you put (the ing Authority to build stood in a stu! y gym with- Gorman developments housing) in your neigh- Inside 65 units on South New out air conditioning and home. He also talked borhood?” At one point, ADVICE Towne Drive. did his best to address a about Jane Addams Park Rockford honors nine killed The units would replace sometimes-testy and Apartments, a former SEE HOUSING, A8 in shooting at South Caro- lina church. A7 Questions for dominating pal ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT A friend of movie-goer’s seems skittish on taking in fi lms out of her comfort zone. Annie’s Mailbox Comcast ordered to ID commenter on Freeport story wonders if more is going By Karen Patterson anonymous Comcast Inter- commenter “Fuboy,” said he he has of Empire (Elemen- are an increasing source on beneath her surface. Rockford Register Star net subscriber plans to ask and his client have 90 days tary School) from his front of concern. Don Craven, B9 the nation’s highest court to to make a fi nal decision. door.” an attorney for the Illinois FREEPORT — Ste- hear his case in the wake of The comment was posted The comment was an Press Association, said the Classifi ed ...B5-12 Lottery ............A2 phenson County Board the Illinois Supreme Court on a December 2011 article apparent reference to decision should make clear Comics ..........B10 Opinion ..........A11 Deaths ........ A6-7 Sports ..........B1-4 Chairman Bill Hadley’s libel ruling Thursday that the on The Journal-Standard former Penn State football that this state, at least, will Local........A2,4-12 U.S./World ......A3 lawsuit against an anony- subscriber’s identity must website about Hadley’s coach Jerry Sandusky, who not tolerate such attempts mous commenter might be revealed, affirming a decision to run for the was convicted in 2012 of at defamation. make it to the U.S. Supreme lower court’s decision. County Board: “Hadley is child sex abuse. “There are folks who Court. Freeport attorney Robert a Sandusky waiting to be These types of potentially An attorney for the Fagan, who represents exposed. Check out the view libelous online comments SEE COURT, A10 A8 ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR Friday, June 19, 2015 city o" cials said. The City her neighbors conducted HOUSING Council will have the fi nal themselves at the meeting. From Page A1 say on the plan. She believes the petition "I’m very proud of the circulated by Terry Siebert audience members began fact that we’re taking this spread misinformation chanting "We don’t want issue on and dealing with and fueled the neighbors’ it" over and over again. very tough issues that are anger. Blakley and Gorman embedded in the failed “If not here, where? representatives read audi- history of public housing," Where do we put them?” ence questions and tried to Morrissey said. "We have to she said. “I think what’s answer them, but at times be fair to this surrounding behind all (the anger) is they had to fend o! attend- neighborhood. We have to racism, but nobody wants ees who yelled at them be fair to Fairgrounds and to talk about that. That and grabbed microphones the neighborhood sur- never came up tonight and from speakers. Gorman rounding Fairgrounds. We never does.” representatives said good can’t accept the status quo. Deryk Hayes, a com- management at the New We have to treat everybody munity development and Towne site would prevent fairly ... and make sure human services manager crime from affecting the every part of the city has the for the RHA, pushed back surrounding neighborhood. chance to prosper." at comments that were Many asked why the pro- But it was anger and critical of public housing posal needs to be as large as frustration, not pride, residents. it is. Gorman o" cials said that emerged. Jonathan “Members of the South the development must con- Ryan, who lives near New New Towne community, tain 60 to 70 units to justify Towne Drive, received loud they really didn’t come to the company’s employment applause when he stepped listen to what Gorman has of a full-time, on-site prop- to the mic and offered to say,” Hayes said. “They erty manager. Blakely an alternative didn’t show any type of "We hold people account- plan: “Why don’t you just compassion or any kind of able," said Jim Busse, buy all of our homes in the community. ... If you would Gorman’s regional man- neighborhood for $105,000 get to know about 95 to 96 ager.