Shooter in Highland Park

2022 - 7 - 5

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Highland Park shooting: Man arrested after 4 July mass shooting (BBC News)

US police have arrested a suspect after six people were killed at an Independence Day parade near Chicago. Police say Robert E Crimo III, aged 22, ...

I'm telling you there is no better day and no better time then right here and right now," the Democratic governor said. You can also get in touch in the following ways: It is the latest mass shooting to hit the US - there has been one in every week of 2022. Mr Crimo was detained after a manhunt. "There are going to be people who are going to say that today is not the day, that now is not the time to talk about guns. The suspect is believed to have fired at members of the public from the rooftop of a nearby shop, where police say they recovered "evidence of a firearm."

What we know about the Highland Park shooting - CNN (CNN)

A gunman in Highland Park, Illinois, killed six people and injured dozens more on a July Fourth parade route on Monday, setting off a manhunt that paralyzed ...

"There have been a lot of different events that have happened in the United States and this obviously now has hit very close to home. "The people who were gone, were blown up by that gunfire -- blown up," Baum said. You all heard what happened -- you all what heard what happened today, and each day we're reminders there's nothing guaranteed about our democracy, nothing guaranteed about our way of life -- you have to fight for it, defend it, and earn it by voting, to refine, evolve, and extend the calling of America to move forward boldly and unafraid." "It is a killing machine." "We are good people here, and to have this is devastating," Paul Crimo said. I'm furious," Pritzker, a Democrat, said on Monday. "I'm furious that yet more innocent lives were taken by gun violence. In a video titled "Toy Soldier," another stick-figure cartoon character resembling Crimo is depicted lying face down on the floor in a pool of his own blood surrounded by police officers with their guns drawn. President Joe Biden began the July Fourth holiday on Monday by sounding a hopeful note about the country's future. Paul Crimo also described a discussion with the FBI on Monday afternoon. "We know you join us in the deepest prayer that Jacki's soul will be bound up in the shelter of God's wings and her family will somehow find comfort and consolation amidst this boundless grief." The death of Nicolas Toledo, 78, was confirmed on Tuesday by Mexican officials. Some bystanders said they initially thought the sound of the gunshots were from fireworks.

Highland Park shooting suspect charged with murder as police ... (The Guardian)

Robert Crimo, 21, faces seven counts of first-degree murder after Fourth of July massacre.

Investigators said at a Tuesday press conference that they had first encountered Crimo when he tried to take his own life in April 2019, prompting a call to authorities who treated the case as a mental health emergency. Police pulled him over about five miles north of the shooting scene Monday after obtaining surveillance video footage of him and his car, Covelli said. Therefore, Covelli said, officials were not currently treating the attack as a possible hate crime. The new details came as Robert Crimo III, 21, was charged with seven counts of first-degree murder over the deadly massacre. Nicholas Toledo Zaragoza, 78, was from Mexico’s state of Morelos. The man alleged to have fatally shot seven people and wounded more than 30 others at an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago managed to legally obtain five guns – including the murder weapon – after a suicide attempt and a threat to “kill everyone” in 2019, authorities revealed on Tuesday.

Amid the Highland Park carnage, seven dead and a toddler left alone (The Washington Post)

Families remember the dead after a gunman opened fire from a building roof, striking dozens of people gathered for a traditional Fourth of July parade on ...

Highland Park, Chicago's 'Mayberry,' Struggles With Identity After ... (The New York Times)

2022 Mass Shootings: The Gun Violence Archive has counted more than 300 mass shootings in the United States through early July. · Police Response: What role ...

We thought it was just part of the parade — the shooting. The morning of the parade, John Whitehead, 55, a teacher of eighth-grade American history, was standing in front of the Walker Bros. pancake house. It was that intimate setting — the very thing that made the town feel special — that the gunman exploited, the police said. “It’s so weird,” said Xochil Toledo, 23, who had been standing at the parade next to her 78-year-old grandfather, Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, when he was shot to death. “It was the place where everyone had their birthday parties,” Lisabeth Gansberg, 54, said. “For someone to come and snatch that away from these people, that is just unacceptable.” “Highland Park is always thought of as a safe, beautiful town on North Shore where you can leave your purse on the sidewalk and come back for it,” she said. “It’s one of the very first old suburbs that emerged around the railroads, that actually reinvigorates their downtown in the postwar period,” she said. It was to be the first parade after two years of pandemic-related cancellations. “And when I would drive through here, the first thing I said is, ‘One day I’m going to live here.’ Because it was beautiful. The morning before, Rabbi Chalom was standing in a festive crowd by the commuter station, waiting with the other marchers for the Fourth of July parade to begin. It was always affluent, and still is, but leaders have made efforts to promote the building of affordable housing.

Parade shooting suspect bought 5 weapons despite threats (Associated Press)

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — A man charged Tuesday with seven counts of murder after firing off more than 70 rounds at an Independence Day parade in suburban ...

The legal fight ended at the U.S. Supreme Court’s doorstep in 2015 when justices declined to hear the case and let the suburb’s restrictions remain in place. In 2013, Highland Park officials approved a ban on semi-automatic weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines. The shooting was just the latest to shatter the rituals of American life. Covelli said police confiscated 16 knives, a dagger and a sword, but said there was no sign he had any guns at the time, in September 2019. “How did somebody become this angry, this hateful, to then take it out on innocent people who literally were just having a family day out?” Outside the police tape, some residents drove up to collect blankets and chairs they abandoned. The shots were initially mistaken for fireworks before hundreds of revelers fled in terror. “They didn’t do anything wrong. In all, police said, he purchased five firearms, which were recovered by officers at his father’s home. “There is zero chance they will be charged with anything criminal,” he said. He promised that dozens more charges would be sought. At the time “there was insufficient basis to establish a clear and present danger” and deny the application, state police said in a statement.