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This
undated
handout
photo
provided
by the
City of
Highland
Park
Police
Department
shows
Robert
(Bobby)
E. Crimo
III.
Highland
Park
Police
Chief
Lou
Jogmen
said
Monday
July 4,
2022,
that
police
have
identified
22-year-old
Crimo as
a person
of
interest
in an
Independence
Day
parade
shooting
in
suburban
Chicago.
(City of
Highland
Park
Police
Department) |
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Suspect
captured
in
shooting
at July
4 parade
in
Chicago's
Highland
Park
suburb
reuters.com
HIGHLAND
PARK,
Ill -
Police
announced
they had
captured
a
suspect
in a
shooting
on
Monday
that
killed
six
people
and
wounded
more
than 36
when a
man with
a
high-powered
rifle
opened
fire
from a
rooftop
at a
Fourth
of July
parade
in the
Chicago
suburb
of
Highland
Park.
Police
confirmed
they
captured
22-year-old
Robert
E. Crimo
III, who
was from
the
area.
Police
can be
seen
surrounding
a car
and then
Crimo
exiting
the
vehicle
with his
hands
raised,
according
to a
video by
the
Chicago
affiliate
of ABC
News.
Crimo
lies
flat on
the
ground
before
police
take him
into
custody.
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Charges
will be
filed,
Highland
Park
Police
said.
The
shooting
caused
toddlers
to
abandon
tricycles
and
parents
to run
for
safety
with
their
children,
turning
a civic
display
of
patriotism
into a
scene of
panicked
mayhem.
"It
sounded
like
fireworks
going
off,"
said
retired
doctor
Richard
Kaufman
who was
standing
across
the
street
from
where
the
gunman
opened
fire,
adding
that he
heard
about
200
shots.
"It was
pandemonium.
A
stampede.
Babies
were
flying
in the
air.
People
were
diving
for
cover,"
he said.
"People
were
covered
in blood
tripping
over
each
other.”
Police
did not
have a
motive
for the
shooting.
More
than 36
people
were
hurt,
mostly
by
gunshots,
said Jim
Anthony,
a
spokesman
for the
NorthShore
University
HealthSystem.
The 26
victims
taken to
the
Highland
Park
hospital
ranged
in age
from 8
to 85,
said
Brigham
Temple,
an
emergency
room
doctor.
The New
York
Times
named
one of
the dead
as
76-year-old
Nicolas
Toledo,
who was
in a
wheelchair
and had
not
wanted
to
attend
the
parade,
but his
disabilities
required
that he
be
around
someone
full
time and
his
family
had not
wanted
to miss
the
event.
"We were
all in
shock,”
his
granddaughter
Xochil
Toledo
said.
"We
thought
it was
part of
the
parade."
At least
one of
those
killed
was a
Mexican
national,
a senior
Mexican
Foreign
Ministry
official
said on
Twitter.
The
shooting
comes
with gun
violence
fresh on
the
minds of
many
Americans
after a
massacre
on May
24
killed
19
school
children
and two
teachers
at an
elementary
school
in
Uvalde,
Texas,
which
followed
a May 14
attack
that
killed
10
people
at a
grocery
store in
Buffalo,
New
York.
Children
waving
American
flags,
riding
tricycles
or
enjoying
a ride
in a
wagon
pulled
by
adults
froze as
people
in the
crowd
screamed
while
gunshots
rang
out,
video on
social
media
showed.
One
cellphone
video,
seen but
not
verified
by
Reuters,
recorded
what
sounded
to be
about 30
rapid
shots, a
pause,
and then
another
roughly
30
shots.
Between
the two
bursts,
a woman
can be
heard
saying
from the
side of
the
parade
route:
"My God,
what
happened?"
The Lake
County
Sheriff's
Office
posted
an
online
wanted
poster
of Crimo,
showing
a
thin-faced
bearded
man with
facial
and neck
tattoos.
It said
he
weighed
120
pounds
(54 kg)
and was
5 feet
11
inches
(1 meter
80 cms)
tall.
Crimo
appears
to have
published
several
self-made
rap
songs
using
the
artist's
stage
name
"Awake
The
Rapper."
Several
law
enforcement
departments
monitor
the
scene of
a mass
shooting
at a
Fourth
of July
parade
route in
the
wealthy
Chicago
suburb
of
Highland
Park,
Illinois,
U.S.
July 4,
2022.
REUTERS/Max
Herman
A video
by Awake
The
Rapper
shows a
drawing
of a
stick
figure
holding
a rifle
in front
of
another
figure
spread
on the
ground.
YouTube
recently
terminated
an
associated
user
account,
after
police
named
Crimo.
The rap
videos
show a
man
looking
like
Crimo. A
YouTube
spokesperson
did not
immediately
respond
to a
request
for
comment.
Police
said the
shooting
took
place
from the
rooftop
of a
business
that the
gunman
reached
via an
alley
ladder
attached
to the
building
that was
not
secure.
President
Joe
Biden
said he
and his
wife
Jill
were
"shocked
by the
senseless
gun
violence
that has
yet
again
brought
grief to
an
American
community
on this
Independence
Day."
Biden
said he
had
"surged
federal
law
enforcement
to
assist
in the
urgent
search
for the
shooter."
Amarani
Garcia,
who was
at the
parade
with her
young
daughter,
told the
local
ABC
affiliate
she
heard
gunfire,
then a
pause
for what
she
suspected
was
reloading,
and then
more
shots.
There
were
"people
screaming
and
running.
It was
just
really
traumatizing,"
Garcia
said. "I
was very
terrified.
I hid
with my
daughter
actually
in a
little
store.
It just
makes me
feel
like
we're
not safe
anymore."
Social
media
videos
showed a
marching
band
suddenly
breaking
formation
and
running
away,
and
other
images
of
people
leaving
their
belongings
behind
as they
sought
safety.
"Everyone
was
running,
hiding,
and
screaming,"
said CBS
2
Digital
Producer
Elyssa
Kaufman,
who was
at the
scene.
A
36-year-old
native
of
Highland
Park who
wanted
to be
identified
only as
Sara,
told
Reuters
she had
attended
the
annual
parade
most
years
since
her
childhood.
"Not
even
five
minutes
after,
very
shortly
after,
the
police
and
firetrucks
part of
the
parade
had gone
by I
heard
‘pop,
pop,
pop,
pop,
pop,’"
she
said,
adding
that she
first
thought
they
were
muskets
some
times
used in
parades.
"I
looked
and
there
were no
muskets.
The
popping
didn’t
stop ...
again it
went
‘pop,
pop,
pop,
pop,
pop’ and
I turned
and I
said
‘those
are
gunshots,
run!’”
Highland
Park's
population
is
30,000
and
nearly
90%
white,
according
to the
U.S.
Census
Bureau.
About a
third of
the
population
is
Jewish,
according
to the
Jewish
Telegraphic
Agency.
The
shooting
is
likely
to
rekindle
the
American
debate
about
gun
control,
and
whether
stricter
measures
can
prevent
mass
shootings
that
happen
so
frequently
in the
United
States.
After
the
Uvalde
and
Buffalo
shootings,
Congress
last
month
passed
its
first
major
federal
gun
reform
in three
decades,
providing
federal
funding
to
states
that
administer
"red
flag"
laws
intended
to
remove
guns
from
people
deemed
dangerous.
It does
not ban
sales of
assault-style
rifles
or
high-capacity
magazines,
but does
take
some
steps on
background
checks
by
allowing
access
to
information
on
significant
crimes
committed
by
juveniles.
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Reporting
by Eric
Cox;
Additional
reporting
by
Brendan
O'Brien
and
Caroline
Stauffer
in
Chicago;
Kanishka
Singh,
Chris
Gallagher,
David
Brunnstrom
and
Chris
Bing in
Washington;
and
Daniel
Trotta
in
Carlsbad,
California;
Writing
by
Daniel
Trotta
and
David
Brunnstrom;
Editing
by Mary
Milliken,
Noeleen
Walder
and Bill
Berkrot
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