(EFE).- At least six people were killed and dozens seriously injured on Monday when a man opened fire from a rooftop on an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois.
After an hours-long manhunt, police arrested a 22-year-old man identified as Robert E. “Bobby” Crimo III. They did not give a possible motive.
A job well done by the North Chicago Police Officer who located the individual wanted for the tragic mass shooting in Highland Park and alerted additional units to help in the apprehension.
The DEA sends prayers to the victims and families affected by this senseless violence. pic.twitter.com/lkc1SmmEKk
— Detectives' Endowment Association (@NYCPDDEA) July 5, 2022
On the roof from which the shooter fired, police said they found a “high-powered rifle” and a ladder attached to the building.
“This appears to be completely random,” said Lake County Sheriff Sgt. Christopher Covelli. “Very random, very intentional, very sad day.”
Five people died at the scene, all of them adults, while another person, whose age is unknown, died as they were transported to hospital, Lake County Medical Examiner Jennifer Banek said at a news conference.
Twenty five of the 26 people received by Highland Park Hospital had gunshot injuries and 19 were later discharged, NorthShore University Health System medical director Dr. Brigham Temple said, according to CNN. She added that two people were also received by Evanston Hospital, and that patients ranged from 8-85 years old.
Local media reported that Lake Forest Hospital also received patients.
Hours after the event, United States President Joe Biden expressed his shock at what he considered “senseless gun violence that has yet again brought grief to an American community on this Independence Day,” a festive public holiday celebrated with parades and barbecues.
“There is much more work to do, and I’m not going to give up fighting the epidemic of gun violence,” he promised.
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Biden said he had spoken on the phone with Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering and Illinois Governor Jay Robert “J.B.” Pritzker.
“There are no words for the kind of monster that lies in wait and fires into a crowd of families and children celebrating a holiday with their community. There are no words for the kind of evil that robs our neighbors of their hopes, their dreams, their futures,” Pritzker said in a statement.
“While we celebrate the Fourth of July just once a year, mass shootings have become our weekly – yes, weekly – American tradition,” he later added.
The first shots were heard around 10.15 am local time (15:15 GMT) when three-quarters of the parade participants had already completed their route, according to authorities.
Several witnesses believed the sound was fireworks, according to what they told the US media. Most of the testimonies described the shots as bursts, with short intervals of silence in which they believe the man was reloading his weapon.
One man told the Chicago Sun Times that he and his partner split up during the chaos, each taking one of their two children.
“I grabbed my son and tried to break into one of the local buildings, but I couldn’t,” the man told the newspaper. “The shooting stopped. I guess he was reloading. So I kept running and ran into an alley and put my son in a garbage dumpster so he could be safe.”
More witnesses told of the chaos of the moment, with people running in terror in all directions and leaving behind their belongings, from baby strollers to chairs and American flags, as seen strewn in the streets in videos posted on social media by parade attendees. EFE
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You see what a broken educational system and Social Media does to today’s youth. And here is another where the warning signs were out there, but ignored. Awaken The Rapper now has a rap sheet unrelated to his occupation, but I am sure the lyrics to his “music” would be quite telling.
So, Libs—don’t start the chant for more gun control laws. You see what happens when you focus on the gun and ignore the problems the individual is having.
Looks like Joe’s revised gun policy is off to a poor start. Maybe he should start with taking away his pathological profiled son’s gun Hunter obatined under false premises on his application for a permit, like he never waa convicted of a felony or drug use, but Joe being a son of a gun himself wouldn’t think of it.
BUT remember, to the left, its NEVER THE PERSONS problem, its always the GUNS fault.
How about him staring in a Thriller music video being electrocuted on Old SParky with his feet kicking like a moon walker and his hair on fire like Michael Jackson.
I would gladly pull the lever.
I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy — it was a spiritual event that should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies! Much of the blame lies here in this room. Much of the blame lies behind the pointing fingers of the accusers themselves. I wrote a poem just four nights ago that expresses my feelings best.
Your laws ignore our deepest needs,
Your words are empty air.
You’ve stripped away our heritage,
You’ve outlawed simple prayer.
Now gunshots fill our classrooms,
And precious children die.
You seek for answers everywhere,
And ask the question “Why?”
You regulate restrictive laws,
Through legislative creed.
And yet you fail to understand,
That God is what we need!
“Men and women are three-part beings. We all consist of body, mind, and spirit. When we refuse to acknowledge a third part of our make-up, we create a void that allows evil, prejudice, and hatred to rush in and wreak havoc.
Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado,
“….Joe Biden expressed his shock at what he considered “senseless gun violence that has yet again brought grief to an American community on this Independence Day,” a festive public holiday celebrated with parades and barbecues.
Senseless as opposed to the sensible gun violence in Chicago that democrats refuse to talk about.
In case any public school kids don’t know about Independence Day in The United States, it is described here as merely “a festive public holiday celebrated with parades and barbecues”. Like St. Paddy’s day.
Actually it’s a much bigger deal. It’s kind of more like a NATIONAL HOLIDAY to celebrate the Independence of The United States from tyrannical British rule.
Give us time and we will create our own system of tyrannical rule…..and it will be much better.
ALL of the crime is senseless.
That person has ANTIFA all over him.
Covered with the tatoo’d marks of the beast. Just what is it about people who think they can improve on the beautiful design of the human body, made in the image of the Creator himself, turned by corrupted fools into the image of the great Consumer. Just another secular miseducated liberal who would rather rule in the hell of his own making than serve in a heaven made by his Creator. Some people will do anything to get thier 15 seconds of fame. Another reason their pictures and names should be withheld from the media. Humanity does not go any lower than this one, a walking billboard body advertisement for the devil himself, and a fine representation of what Obama community organised cities like Chicago produce. This social squirrel was obviously fed too many rotton political peanuts. I used to be a disarmed Democrat tax slave right near there by Ohare, now live free and will die free in Texas, well armed.
YOU can bet, he’s a democrat.. AS NO trump supporter would look like that!
Too bad the REAL wise guys in Highland Park or Cicero did not straighten this jerk out a couple of years ago. He doesn’t appear to be a proud Italian.
The media spends hours ruminating about a deranged white kid and his (absolutely) horrible act, while a few miles away in “Beetlejuice’s” Chicago many more innocent blacks are killed almost any given weekend.
With no comment by the same “journalists”.
I guess the awful truth is the media still is a Jim Crow entity, awaiting the extermination of a race by its own thugs….