{"id":98747,"date":"2025-07-28T07:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/98747\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T07:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:01:12","slug":"southern-illinois-mass-shooting-leaves-2-dead-5-wounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/98747\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Illinois mass shooting leaves 2 dead, 5 wounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/keyart-chicago-1920x1080.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/live\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS News Chicago<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two people were killed, and five others were wounded, in a mass shooting this weekend in Southern Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Mt. Vernon police were called to the 600 block of South 15th Street in Mt. Vernon at 12:49 a.m. Seven people had been shot at what the city described as a &#8220;non-sanctioned event&#8221; attended by more than 100 to 150 people, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Mt. Vernon Mayor John Lewis said on Facebook that police were not getting any cooperation with attendees on what transpired.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the two people killed were identified as Zomarrius\u00a0Williams, a 20-year-old man from Mt. Vernon; and Demonta Woodward, a 26-year-old man from Mounds.<\/p>\n<p>A 22-year-old woman from Mt. Vernon, Jerria J. Smith, was arrested and charged with reckless discharge of a firearm and obstruction of justice, Mt. Vernon police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said more arrests and charges are expected.<\/p>\n<p>Mt. Vernon is located in Jefferson County, Illinois, about 80 miles southeast of St. Louis and about 50 miles north and east of Carbondale.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/adam-harrington\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam  Harrington<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Adam Harrington is a web producer at CBS Chicago, where he first arrived in January 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Chicago Live Two people were killed, and five others were wounded, in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":93675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,29229,64689],"class_list":{"0":"post-98747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-mass-shooting","12":"tag-mount-vernon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114929577784183817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}