It looked like a scene from a horror film: A figure dressed in a baggy black and red clown outfit, their face partially covered, approaching a Ring camera late at night, glaring into the lens and whispering a warning, “I’m looking for you.” But the encounter was not just an elaborate scare.
Illinois State Police say the person wearing a clown costume in video circulating online is a 15-year-old boy in custody in connection with a fatal stabbing of an elderly man in East St. Louis.
East St. Louis police responded to the residential neighborhood east of Interstate 255 around 10 p.m. Monday after receiving a report of a body in the roadway.
St. Clair County Coroner Calvin Dye Sr. identified the victim as 78-year-old John Wesley Allen Sr., and said he had been stabbed multiple times. Allen had been waiting at a bus stop when he was stabbed in a “random attack” by the teen suspect wearing a clown costume, state police said.
Less than an hour before Allen’s body was discovered, a Ring camera recorded the suspect outside a home three blocks from the scene.
