ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Rockford Police have arrested two suspects, 13 and 14-year-old, accused of armed robbery, harassing and throwing rocks at neighbors, and threatening residents with guns and knives. The investigation also resulted in the arrest of Carl Smith, 33, and Katherine Weinsheim, 37.
According to the Rockford Police Department, officers were called to the 2200 block of S. Mulford Road around 6:08 p.m. on September 23rd, where a married couple had been walking when they were approached and verbally harassed by two teen boys.
The victims told police one of the suspects pointed a handgun at them and hit the man with the gun. He fought back, police said, and the gun fell to the ground, at which point the woman picked it up. The teen assailants attacked her, retrieved the weapon, and fled.
The police department’s Violent Crime Unit Detectives were able to identify the two suspects, who were connected with a series of violent incidents that occurred in the vicinity of the Twenty-Fifth Street Playground, near Wesleyan Avenue and 25th Street, between September 11th and 13th.