At least one person was killed and dozens were injured when a roof at the Apollo Theatre in Illinois collapsed during a concert. Powerful winds from a monster storm system slamming multiple states is to blame.
showed debris lying in the street outside the Apollo Theatre, with firefighters and ambulances on scene. Cell phone video captured the damage from inside the structure.
There were 260 people in the building at the time of the collapse, the fire department reported, adding that as of late Friday night, no one was unaccounted for. Belvidere Police Chief Shane Woody described the scene after the collapse as"chaos, absolute chaos." "My administration is closely monitoring the roof collapse at the Apollo Theatre in Belvidere tonight," Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker The monster storm system which tore through the South and Midwest on Friday spawned a tornado in Arkansas which left at least two people dead.
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