Sentenced: 6 Dead, More Hospitalized In Mass Shooting At Highland Park Fourth Of July Parade

[Sugar Cookie]

Six people were killed and possibly more than two dozen others wounded when a gunman started shooting 10 minutes after the Highland Park Fourth of July parade kicked off Monday morning, authorities said.

Shortly after noon, the Highland Park police said it remained an “active incident” and urged people to stay away.

A Chicago Sun-Times reporter saw blankets covering three bloodied bodies and five other people wounded and bloodied near the parade’s reviewing stand.

NorthShore University Health System said 26 people were taken to Highland Park Hospital and five to Evanston Hospital, the “vast majority” being treated for gunshot wounds, though some “sustained injuries as a result of the ensuing chaos at the parade.”

Several witnesses said they heard multiple shots fired. One witness said he counted more than 20 shots.

Miles Zaremski, a Highland Park resident, told the Sun-Times: “I heard 20 to 25 shots, which were in rapid succession. So it couldn’t have been just a handgun or a shotgun.”

Zaremski said he saw “people in that area that got shot,” including “a woman covered with blood . . . She did not survive.”

Horror on the Fourth: Suspect in custody after 6 killed, dozens wounded at Highland Park Fourth of July parade

Robert E. “Bobby” Crimo III, 21, was “taken into custody without incident” on U.S. 41 at Westleigh Road in Lake Forest after being spotted by North Chicago police.

chicago.suntimes.com

 

[Brillig]

The rest of the world must think we're all insane, that this keeps happening so constantly. Happy Independence Day.

 

[McDanel]

There aren't enough of us that care.

 

[Victoria]

Shooter still at large.

 

[Hermy]

Reason #4593 why I avoid crowds even though where I live guns are under pretty strict control (not perfect, but a lot better than in the U.S.).

 

[Anosmia]

A mass shooting shoot at a Fourth of July parade is about as all-American as you can get.

I'm so tired of this. I'm not anti-gun at all, but this is getting ridiculous. Don't our citizens deserve better?

 

[Metalfan]

Let me guess,an AR 15 and a manifesto maybe?

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A person of interest has been identified in Monday’s deadly mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade outside Chicago, authorities said.

Officials said he was 22-year-old Robert “Bobby” E. Crimo III and is believed to be driving a 2010 silver Honda Fit.

The gunman opened fire with a “high-powered rifle” while standing on a roof just minutes after the parade began in the tony suburb of Highland Park, where six people were left dead and 24 others injured.

The killer “was very military-style, methodical in the way he was crouched and shooting,” an attendee told WGN TV.

Investigators found a rifle at the scene that is believed to have been used in the massacre.

Bobby Crimo, 22, ID’d as person of interest in deadly Highland Park parade shooting

Robert “Bobby” E. Crimo III, 22, has been ID’d as the person of interest in Monday’s deadly mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, just outside of Chicag…

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[Spider]

God damn ol Bobby looks like a real fucking winner.

 

[Morbid]

 

[thuumpr]

Moron looks like a 'f**king Q-Tip'

 

[Donut Whisperer]

That was disturbing. I thought he was going to pull a gun out of that duffle bag. I’m surprised he didn’t shoot up a school. The video makes me think that’s what he was planning. I wonder how soon we’ll find out people were suspicious and didn’t report anything or reports were ignored.

I hate this.
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That was disturbing. I thought he was going to pull a gun out of that duffle bag. I’m surprised he didn’t shoot up a school. The video makes me think that’s what he was planning. I wonder how soon we’ll find out people were suspicious and didn’t report anything or reports were ignored.

I hate this.

And the video has already been pulled.

 

[Unapologetically Me]

I believe the tattoo above his eyebrow says "Awake" "Awake Not Woke is a book against"woke" ideology. . Maybe a Connection or just simply a really bad tattoo
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Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology on Amazon

 

[Donut Whisperer]

6 dead, 30 hurt in shooting at Chicago-area July 4 parade

Police say a gunman on a rooftop opened fire on an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago, killing at least six people, wounding at least 30 and sending hundreds of marchers, parents with strollers and children on bicycles fleeing in terror.

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They have the person of interest in custody. The linked article has information about him. They haven’t labeled him as suspect yet.

 

[Brillig]

Incel.

 

[Victoria]

 

[Donut Whisperer]

I wonder what the tattoo artist who had such ready access to his jugular and a sharp needle in hand thinks while looking at that picture.

 

[thuumpr]

His uncle stated that Bobby was acting 'normal' the night before...

Need to check out the uncle. If he can't recognize batshit crazy, he is part of the problem.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Police arrested a person of interest in the fatal Highland Park July 4 shooting that left at least six dead and dozens injured on Monday evening.

The suspect, 22-year-old Robert Crimo III, is believed to have taken shots at parade-goers from a rooftop in Highland Park, Ill., at approximately 10:00 a.m. on Monday. He was arrested after a brief pursuit and is being questioned by the FBI, according to ABC7.

Crimo, who also goes by the rapper name “Awake,” was identified after his DNA was found on a rifle close to the scene of the shooting, NBC Chicago reported. He was dressed as a woman at one point during the incident, according to the outlet.

The FBI described Crimo, as seen in subsequent photos, as being white, thin, with brown hair and several face tattoos, including tally marks on his right cheek, cursive script on his left eyebrow, and red roses with green leaves on his neck.

Crimo had posted disturbing content on his social media before the incident, with his latest YouTube music video depicting him in the aftermath of a school shooting, according to NBC News. His uncle, Paul Crimo, told CNN that “there were no signs that I saw that would make him do this,” but noted that “he’s a quiet kid. He’s usually on his own. He’s a lonely, quiet person. He keeps everything to himself.”

Police identified Crimo as a person of interest hours after the incident, and SWAT members went to his house — located less than a mile from where the shooting occurred — shortly afterwards, according to ABC7.

Police Arrest Suspect in Deadly Chicago Shooting after Finding DNA Evidence on Rifle

Robert Crimo III, who is believed to have taken shots at parade-goers from a rooftop in Highland Park, Illinois was arrested by police Monday evening after his DNA was identified.

news.yahoo.com

 

[thuumpr]

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Police Arrest Suspect in Deadly Chicago Shooting after Finding DNA Evidence on Rifle

Robert Crimo III, who is believed to have taken shots at parade-goers from a rooftop in Highland Park, Illinois was arrested by police Monday evening after his DNA was identified.

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Now why the hell when he was cuffed and down on the ground did they not grab him by the hair and slam his head of the concrete while asking him if he's awake?

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The Illinois teen accused of fatally gunning down six people and wounding dozens more at a Fourth of July parade dressed as a woman to disguise himself during the rampage, police announced Tuesday.

Highland Park resident Robert “Bobby” Crimo, 21, “did this to conceal his facial tattoos and his identity, and help him during the escape with... other people who were fleeing the chaos,” Dep. Chief Christopher Covelli, a spokesman for the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, said at a press conference.

The gun used at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade was purchased legally in Illinois by Crimo, who had been planning the attack for “several weeks,” according to Covelli. After the massacre, he blended into the crowd and ran to his mother’s home, he added. Police believe Crimo fired more than 70 rounds at innocent spectators there to enjoy the day, Covelli said.

“My boyfriend handed me this little boy and said he was underneath this father who was shot in the leg,” one parade-goer told The Daily Beast. “They were trying to stop the bleeding so I brought the boy downstairs into the garage.”

On Tuesday morning, Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering used an interview on NBC’s Today to reflect on the horrific slaughter in her quiet Chicago suburb. Highland Park has had an assault-weapons ban in place since 2013.

“I don’t know where the gun came from, but I do know that it was legally obtained,” Rotering said. “I think at some point, this nation needs to have a conversation about these weekly events involving the murder of dozens of people with legally obtained guns. If that’s what our laws stand for, we need to re-examine the laws.”

Authorities have not yet released the exact make of the gun or where and when it was bought, but Covelli described it as “similar to an AR-15.” It was left on the rooftop that the gunman used as a sniper’s nest, firing indiscriminately into crowds of families enjoying the parade.

Parade Suspect Told Family He’d ‘Kill Everyone’ Years Before Massacre

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Photos by Reuters/WGN News The Illinois man accused of fatally gunning down seven people and wounding dozens more at a Fourth of July parade threatened to “kill e...

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[Anosmia]

His face just screams "weak genes." I hope he never procreated. Now that he's hopefully going away to prison for a long time, future procreation will be out of question. What a relief!

 

[Mountaineer95]

“The Illinois teen…Robert “Bobby” Crimo, 21”

*eyeroll*

 

[Bobbo]

Death toll rises to 7 people after Highland Park July 4th parade shooting

The gunman who attacked an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago fired more than 70 rounds with an AR-15-style gun that killed at least seven people.

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[thuumpr]

I'm wondering if Bobby was dressed as a woman using it as a disguise...

 

[Donut Whisperer]

Red white and blue collar to kill Americans on Independence Day. Disgusting.

 

[Satanica]

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill., July 5 (Reuters) - The man charged with killing seven people at a Chicago-area July Fourth parade slipped past the safeguards of an Illinois "red flag" law designed to prevent people deemed to have violent tendencies from getting guns, officials revealed on Tuesday.
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Sergeant Chris Covelli of the Lake County Sheriff's Office said earlier in the day that Crimo had legally purchased a total of five guns, including the suspected murder weapon, despite having come to law enforcement's attention twice for behavior suggesting he might harm himself or others.

The first instance was an April 2019 emergency-911 call reporting Crimo had attempted suicide, followed in September of that year by a police visit regarding alleged threats "to kill everyone" that he had directed at family members, Covelli said.

According to Covelli, police responding to the second incident seized a collection of 16 knives, a dagger and a sword from Crimo's home in Highland Park, Illinois, the Chicago suburb where the shooting occurred on Monday. But no arrest was made as authorities at the time lacked probable cause to take him into custody, the sheriff's sergeant said.

"There were no complaints that were signed by any of the victims," Covelli explained.

Later on Tuesday came a separate statement from the Illinois State Police recounting that the agency had received a report from Highland Park Police declaring Crimo a "clear and present danger" after the alleged threats against relatives in September 2019.

At the time, however, Crimo did not possess a state "firearm owners identification (FOID)" card that could be revoked or a pending FOID application to deny. So state police involvement in the matter was closed, the agency said.

State police also said no relative or anyone else was willing "to move forward with a formal complaint" or to provide "information on threats or mental health that would have allowed law enforcement to take additional action."

Three months later, at age 19, Crimo applied for his first FOID card, under his father's sponsorship. But because no firearm restraining order or other court action against Crimo had ever been sought, "there was insufficient basis to establish a clear and present danger and deny the FOID application," state police said.

Crimo passed four background checks in the purchase of his guns, all of them conducted in 2020 and 2021, well after the 2019 incidents that drew police attention, according to the state police.

State police said the only offense detected in Crimo's criminal history during background checks was for unlawful possession of tobacco in 2016, and that "no mental health prohibiter reports" from healthcare providers ever surfaced.

The state police said that when officers who visited the family's home over the alleged threats Crimo made in September 2019, they asked him "if he felt like harming himself or others," and that "he responded 'no'."

"Additionally and importantly, the father claimed the knives were his and they were being stored in (his son's) closet for safekeeping," state police said. "Based upon that information, the Highland Park Police returned the knives to the father later that afternoon."

A number of U.S. politicians in both parties have urged more widespread enactment and enforcement of "red flag" laws, which typically enable courts to issue restraining orders allowing authorities to confiscate firearms from individuals, or to prevent them from buying weapons, when they are deemed to pose a significant threat to themselves or others.

But Reinhart, the state's attorney who charged Crimo on Tuesday, was at a loss to explain how Crimo could be permitted to legally obtain weapons without the alleged 2019 threat and "clear and present danger" report triggering the state's "red flag" measures.

Congress last month passed a national gun reform bill including provisions to provide federal funding to states that administer red flag statutes.

July 4 parade shooting suspect slipped past Illinois "red flag" safeguards

The man charged with killing seven people at a Chicago-area July Fourth parade slipped past the safeguards of an Illinois "red flag" law designed to prevent people deemed to have violent tendencies from getting guns, officials revealed on Tuesday.

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[Sugar Cookie]

Irina and Kevin McCarthy​

$2,587,370 raised of $500,000 goal​

In the aftermath of the Highland Park, IL shootings on July 4, the North Shore community rallied to help a boy who we knew nothing about. We took him to safety under tragic circumstances, came together to locate his grandparents, and prayed for the safety of his family.

Sadly, I need to share his name…Aiden McCarthy. And he needs more of our help. His parents Irina & Kevin were killed during the July 4 shooting. At two years old, Aiden is left in the unthinkable position; to grow up without his parents.

Aiden will be cared for by his loving family and he will have a long road ahead to heal, find stability, and ultimately navigate life as an orphan. He is surrounded by a community of friends and extended family that will embrace him with love, and any means available to ensure he has everything he needs as he grows.

Thank you for your generosity, kindness and support.

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Stephen Straus, age 88​

His son, John Straus, told the Chicago Tribune that his father was born and raised on Chicago's South Side and described him as a "a product of Chicago."

But he said his dad loved his adopted hometown of Highland Park, where he lived for decades and raised a family with wife of nearly 60 years, Linda, who survives him along with two sons.

"My dad was just very much a Highland Parker," another son, Peter Straus, told the Tribune. "He lived here, and unfortunately he died here."

A grandfather of four, Stephen Straus enjoyed attending the Highland Park Fourth of July parade every year, Peter Straus said.

'Funny' grandfather, parents of toddler among parade shooting victims: 7 killed identified

Jacki Sundheim was a dedicated congregant at her synagogue. Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza was a grandpa who would "always joke around."

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Eduardo Uvaldo, age 69​

$70,656 raised of $40,000 goal​

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Nicolas Toledo, 78​

"My grandpa was a funny man. He'd always joke around and be playful with his grandkids. He arrived [at] the U.S. in the '80s and worked around the Highland Park area for many years. He spent his last days swimming and fishing and being among family," Toledo's grandson, David Toledo, told ABC News in a statement.

'Funny' grandfather, parents of toddler among parade shooting victims: 7 killed identified

Jacki Sundheim was a dedicated congregant at her synagogue. Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza was a grandpa who would "always joke around."

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Jacki Sundheim, age 63​

In a statement, the North Shore Congregation Israel described Sundheim as a "beloved" staff member who spent her early days teaching preschool and her entire life worshipping at the synagogue.

"There are no words sufficient to express the depth of our grief for Jacki's death and sympathy for her family and loved ones," the synagogue said.

'Funny' grandfather, parents of toddler among parade shooting victims: 7 killed identified

Jacki Sundheim was a dedicated congregant at her synagogue. Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza was a grandpa who would "always joke around."

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Katherine Goldstein, age 64​

Katherine Goldstein was a mother of two adult daughters, an avid bird watcher and someone who loved to travel, a friend told ABC News.

Betsy Backes said she first met Goldstein at a local community center north of Chicago when they were both pregnant with their second child. Goldstein invited Backes to her home and the two mothers began a close, 20-year friendship that ended abruptly when Goldstein was gunned down Monday morning at the Independence Day parade in Highland Park.

In a phone conversation Wednesday morning, Backes spoke glowingly of her "dear friend Katie G.," describing her as an "extraordinary person" and "everyone's best friend" who was "always around for her kids."

'Funny' grandfather, parents of toddler among parade shooting victims: 7 killed identified

Jacki Sundheim was a dedicated congregant at her synagogue. Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza was a grandpa who would "always joke around."

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[cubby]

What a fucking creep.

Pussy magnet, my ass! I would bet the only sex he's had was with his doll, sophie, and we know what happened to her.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The Highland Park shooting suspect posted disturbing images of a “teenage” sex doll and spouted racist and anti-Semitic remarks just days before the shooting in a private online forum.

Robert “Bobby” Crimo III posted on the forum Documenting Reality under the moniker Awake47 and documented his creepy relationship with a doll he called “Sophie.”

One of the photos posted by Crimo in June 2020 shows the doll sitting in the front passenger’s seat of his Acura 30CL with the seatbelt fastened

The Acura had a “Pu–y Magnet” sticker on the rear windshield, at least four teddy bears in the back seat and a Donald Trump bobblehead affixed to the rear dash of the vehicle.

Another one of the images posted by Crimo was entitled “Sophie Killed Herself” and portrayed the doll in a mock suicide by hanging in his closet.

“I don’t understand why,” Crimo wrote on the post. “Sophie July 1, 2020 – July 22, 2020” he added, with a frowning face.

Highland Park parade shooting suspect Robert Crimo posted pics of his ‘teen sex doll’ online

Crimo is accused of killing seven people in Highland Park during a parade Monday.

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Accused Highland Park shooter Robert “Bobby” Crimo III was “definitely sizing up” a local synagogue when he was confronted there during Passover, its security boss says.

The house of worship’s security chief, Martin Blumenthal, told Forward that he was immediately suspicious of the distinctive-looking 21-year-old when the suspect arrived at the city’s Chabad synagogue dressed all black “in the goth style,” including gloves.

“I profiled him. I knew what he was up to,” said Blumenthal, who remembered even squeezing Crimo’s knapsack to make sure there were no weapons inside.

“He was definitely sizing up the synagogue,” the volunteer security chief insisted.

Crimo’s April visit during the last day of Passover was first revealed by the Chabad’s leader, Rabbi Yosef Schanowitz, who said he had “sternly asked him to leave.”

Blumenthal said he immediately approached the suspicious-looking visitor as at least 125 people were inside Central Avenue Synagogue.

“He said his name was Bobby and he lived in the neighborhood,” the rabbi said of the name the suspected shooter is known to use.

Despite fearing that Crimo was “sizing up” the synagogue, Blumenthal said, he felt unable to throw him out or report it to the police because he “didn’t cause a disturbance or anything.

Accused Highland Park killer Robert Crimo was allegedly ‘sizing up’ synagogue over Passover

Accused Highland Park mass shooter Robert “Bobby” Crimo III was “definitely sizing up” a local synagogue, insists alarmed security boss who confronted him.

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The dad of the accused Fourth of July parade killer told The Post on Wednesday that his son talked about a mass shooting in Denmark the night before launching his own massacre — and washed his hands of any guilt over how the suspect got his gun.

The father, Robert Crimo Jr. — who has tapped one of R. Kelly’s lawyers to battle claims he helped his mentally disturbed kid buy guns — said that the night before Monday’s shooting, he and son Robert Crimo III discussed the 22-year-old Danish man who shot and killed three people at a mall outside of Copenhagen on Sunday.

“He goes, ‘Yeah, that guy is an idiot.’ That’s what he said!” the dad recalled his son saying of the Denmark shooter.

The father said his son added, “People like that … [commit mass shootings] to amp up the people that want to ban all guns.”

The father has faced a wave of criticism for sponsoring his son’s gun-license application, which allowed Crimo III to buy four guns, including his alleged slay weapon, before age 21.


The dad sponsored the application three months after his son was labeled a “clear and present danger” by authorities for threatening to kill relatives in 2019.

Crimo Jr. said he decided to sponsor his son’s firearm owner’s identification card — or FOID, which allowed the young man to buy the AR-15 used in the attack — because he thought Crimo III was going to use the weapon to go to the shooting range.

“He bought everything on his own, and they’re registered to him,” the dad said of his son’s weapons.

“They make me like I groomed him to do all this,” he said of critics. “I’ve been here my whole life, and I’m gonna stay here, hold my head up high, because I didn’t do anything wrong.”

While the father said he’s fully supportive of his son and will continue attending all of his court hearings, he’s “furious” over the tragedy.

“I want a long sentence,” Crimo said of his 21-year-old son.

“That’s life. You know you have consequences for actions. He made a choice. He didn’t have to do that. I think there’s mental illness there, obviously. … I didn’t see a lot of it.”

Crimo Jr. insisted that his son’s crimes were not motivated by hate and noted that a relative of one of his lifelong friends was injured in the shooting.

“It’s surreal. I mean essentially I lost a son, too. It sucks.”

Exclusive | Crimo dad washes hands of guilt but talked with son about a mass shooting night before Highland Park massacre

The father of the accused Fourth of July parade killer told The Post on Wednesday that his son talked about a mass shooting in Denmark the night before allegedly launching his own massacre.

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