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SIUE student shot and killed in St. Louis

By Elizabeth Donald | Belleville News-Democrat
April 5, 2017
John Kenny, a senior from Aurora studying political science, stands outside his former home for one of the last times Feb. 23 before Dustin Wheetley, of Wheetley Construction, returns to continue tearing down the burnt Carbondale building. A structure fire engulfed the house on Nov. 23 and killed Kenny’s 20-year-old roommate, Alex Kierstead. “I can remember us all sitting in [that living room] not too long ago,” Kenny said. “I want to say that coming here to see [the house] is kind of a bit of closure, but it’s not really. It’s still an open wound. … A part of me wants to say good riddance to it all, but a part of me is just kind of numb. It’s almost better that way.”

Photo of the Day: ‘Still an open wound’

By Morgan Timms
February 23, 2017
Benjamin Puffer, hand on candle, and Josh Schenkenfelder, a senior from Oak Forest studying journalism, work to craft a display of candles that reads Alex K in memory of Alex Kierstead — who died in a house fire the day before Thanksgiving — on Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, outside the burnt home in Carbondale. Puffer, a freshman from Carbondale studying physics, met Kierstead through a mutual friend. He was a really good guy, Puffer said. Hes just really cool. He had a really good soul. Its one of the best things. Kierstead, a junior from Aurora studying political science and journalism, was remembered by a few dozen friends and mourners at the candlelight vigil held outside the burnt building at 700 W. Freeman St. where Kierstead and his three roommates resided prior to the blaze.

Friends gather to remember SIU student killed in house fire

By Cory Ray
December 3, 2016
Authorities continue to investigate a fatal structure fire that killed an SIU student Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016, in the 700 block of West Freeman Street in Carbondale. (Bill Lukitsch | @lukitsbill)

Carbondale police identify SIU student killed in house fire

By Daily Egyptian staff
November 28, 2016
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Two killed after one-car crash in Williamson County

By Daily Egyptian staff
October 16, 2016
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1 killed, 1 injured in Jefferson County car crash

By Daily Egyptian staff
October 5, 2016
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Arrest warrant issued for suspect, 18, in deadly shooting near U. of I.

By Tony Briscoe | Chicago Tribune
September 28, 2016
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Friend: Mundelein man killed in Champaign shooting was studying to be a doctor

By Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas | Chicago Tribune
September 25, 2016
D.J. Davis, right, stands with his aunt, Lisa Foreman, center, and his older brother Brandon Thompson. (Photo provided by D.J. Davis)

SIU football player dedicates 98-yard touchdown to slain aunt

By Sean Carley
September 20, 2016
Tim Beaty with his son Jacob. (Provided photo by Jessica Beaty)

Carbondale mayor announces Tim Beaty Day

By Bill Lukitsch
August 31, 2016
An emotional Dorothy Holmes, the mother of Ronald Johnson, speaks at a press conference on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, demanding that the dash cam video of her son being shot in the back by Chicago police last year be released to the public. (Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

92 deaths, 2,623 bullets: Tracking every Chicago police shooting over 6 years

By Jennifer Smith Richards, Angela Caputo, Todd Lighty and Jason Meisner | Chicago Tribune
August 26, 2016
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