ROCKFORD Angel Nunez was walking in front of his Illinois Avenue home Sunday evening when a vehicle suddenly pulled up and someone wearing a hoodie jumped out and ran past him.
Nunez said he didn’t recognize the person, but he thought he heard him say “grandpa” as he rushed by. Seconds later, a police officer ran past the 74-year-old Rockford man.
The man in the hooded sweatshirt scaled a wooden fence that separated Nunez s backyard from that of a neighboring fourplex. Nunez said when the officer reached the fence, he peered over it and fired his weapon.
The brief foot chase was over. Nunez said he looked over the fence.
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ROCKFORD A GoFundMe account has been established for the family of the Rockford man who was shot and killed by a Winnebago County sheriff s deputy Saturday night.
The man, Faustin Guetigo, was an immigrant from Central African Republic. He had been living on Bellwort Drive just outside of the city s limits in southeast Winnebago County since March.
Winnebago County sheriff s deputies responded to the home Saturday after Guetigo s wife, Rose Ndoroum, called for help. The couple was having a domestic dispute.
Law enforcement officials told members of the media Monday that Guetigo was outside the home but fled inside when a deputy arrived. After more deputies arrived and entered the house, officials said Guetigo charged the deputies with a metal pipe and struck one of the deputies on the head.
ROCKFORD Rose Ndoroum called the police Saturday after she and her husband, Faustin Guetigo, had a fight.
It wasn t the first time the couple fought, and it was not the first time police were called. It was the last.
Guetigo, 27, was fatally shot during an altercation with a Winnebago County sheriff s deputy inside the family s Bellwort Drive ranch-style duplex.
Monday morning, glass from a shattered screen door was still on the blood-stained concrete outside the couple s home. Larger blood stains remained on the kitchen floor and white tape marked multiple bullet holes in the walls leading to the basement.
Also present Monday in the other half of the duplex: Ndoroum, 20, her mother, the couple s 2-year-old child and Ndoroum s 6-year-old.