Inside the conference room, 75-year-old instructor James Vernon looked up from a chess board and saw Brown running toward him. He opened his backpack and pulled out the knives. Furious at the legal charges against him, Brown saw a way to exact a twisted form of revenge against children.
A chess club was meeting in the library conference room, and Brown watched the 16 children-some as young as seven-with rising rage.
Morton, a 17,000-person village just outside of Peoria along I-74, bills itself as the "pumpkin capital of the world." Its claim to fame lies in its thousands of acres of pumpkin farms, along with an enormous Nestlé plant that cans Libby's puréed pumpkin. Directly behind the Nestlé plant, across the railroad tracks, sits the town's single-story brick library. At 3:25pm, Brown walked inside and sat down at a table.
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