Everything we know about the mass stabbing in Rockford, Illinois

A brutal stabbing attack swept through an Illinois neighbourhood on 27 March, leaving four people dead and seven injured.

What started as an attack in one home in the early afternoon spilt onto the streets of Rockford, with a mail carrier ending up as one of the fatalities.

Now a 22-year-old man is in custody facing multiple murder and intent to kill charges as a community struggles to come to terms with what happened.

Here is everything we know so far.

911 calls started coming into Rockford Police Department at around 1.14pm local time on Wednesday 27 March.

First, suspect Christian Soto, 22, allegedly stabbed his friend Jacob Schupbach at an address on Holmes Street, after smoking marijuana laced with some form of narcotic.

He also attacked Mr Schupbach’s mother, Ramona, who was 63. Both were found dead inside the home.

Mr Soto then fled the scene, attacking mailman Jay Larson, 49, with a knife and his pickup truck. The veteran USPS worker later succumbed to his injuries in hospital.

After this, three teenage girls were attacked with a softball bat inside a home on Cleveland Avenue, with 15-year-old Jenna Newcomb dying in her basement bedroom.

At another house, a woman and her two children were attacked before another woman was assaulted inside a home at the intersection of Florence Street and Eggleston Road.

She fled the property, with Mr Soto allegedly following and stabbing her in the street before a passing driver stopped to help.

He was then attacked before police arrived and arrested the suspect. The woman was in a stable condition in hospital.

The victims killed were:

You can read more about them here.