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Champaign, Urbana officials cite recent shootings and recovered guns; city teams offer crisis response and neighborhood follow-up
Summary
Police chiefs reported multiple recent homicides and dozens of recovered illegal firearms; the city’s community-safety team described crisis response, neighborhood canvassing and wraparound services and scheduled a public meeting for affected neighborhoods.
Champaign and Urbana law-enforcement and city officials told the coalition the area has seen several recent deadly shootings and that officers have recovered large numbers of illegal firearms.
A Champaign police leader said the department recovered dozens of illegal firearms recently and warned that solving the problem will require community help: “this is not a police problem,” the official said, and urged anonymous tips to (217) 351-4545 or Crime Stoppers at (217) 373-8777. The speaker said the department had recovered “98…
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