On the evening of August 20, two students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign went to the emergency room of the local hospital with darts in their arms. The students had been walking several blocks away from each other. Each reported feeling a sudden sharp pain in the left forearm and looking down to see a dart sticking out of the arm. At the time of the attacks, neither student noticed any suspicious persons or vehicles within close proximity to them.
On August 30, police arrested a 19-year-old man and charged him with having committed the attacks. Police reported that they had received an anonymous tip that led to the arrest.
I suspected initially that the tip was something to this effect that “this guy owns a blow gun.”
But, oddly enough, I have discovered that this weapon and these kinds of attacks seem to be much more common…
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