Chicago shooting

Highland Park police have identified 22-year-old Robert 'Bobby' E. Crimo III as a person of interest in the mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade (Copyright ...

Police said that they were pronounced dead at a local hospital. During a press conference officials stated that the five deceased that were on the scene are adults. There is no other information on the sixth deceased.

Illinois State Police tweeted Monday that it is aiding local authorities with "an active shoot situation that occurred at the Highland Park Parade."

“It was just sort of chaos … There were people that got separated from their families, looking for them. This is an active incident,” the statement reads. Police are actively looking for the shooter. “Highland Park Police are responding to an active shooter incident that occurred in downtown Highland Park during the 4th of July parade. In a statement on its website, the city warned residents to “shelter in place” as the hunt continues for the shooter. At a press conference on Monday, law enforcement officials told media that the shooting appears “completely random” and it appears the shooter was on a roof with a rifle, which an official from the Lake County Sheriff’s Department says has been recovered.

At least six people died and 24 were wounded in a shooting at a July Fourth parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, and officers are searching for a ...

"People started saying: 'There's a shooter, there's a shooter, there's a shooter,"' Glickman told The Associated Press. "So we just ran. "It was just sort of chaos," she said. He and other children in the group held small American flags. "Our hearts go out to the families of the victims at this devastating time. Hundreds of parade-goers — some visibly bloodied — fled the parade route after shots rang out, leaving their belongings behind. He and O'Neill described the shooting as random.

At least six killed and 30 injured in Highland park attack amid string of recent mass shootings.

I’m telling you, there is no better day and no better time,” Pritzker said. The violence sent hundreds of marchers, parents with strollers and children on bicycles in the close-knit community of about 30,000 people fleeing in terror, police said. Police have not released details about the victims or wounded. Police are still investigating Crimo’s connection to the shooting and declined to immediately identify him as a suspect. Others just dropped their wagons, grabbed their kids and started running.” “It was just sort of chaos,” she said.

As of early Monday morning, at least 57 people had been shot in Chicago alone over the Fourth of July weekend, nine of them fatally.

Four of them happened on Monday. Beyond Highland Park and Chicago, four people were injured in a shooting in Kansas City, Mo., and six were injured in a shooting in Richmond, Va. The shooting was first reported by local news outlets, including The Chicago Sun-Times. But it was part of a pattern: the brutal ubiquity of gun violence in a nation with more firearms than people.

At least six die and more than two dozen are injured in mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Ill.

Lake County Coroner Jennifer Banek said at a news conference that six people were confirmed dead — five adults who died at the scene and one other person who died in a hospital. As they waited, Martinez-Vicencio said she kept thinking of other mass shootings, including the one at Robb Elementary in Uvalde. “I never thought it would happen here,” she said. According to police accounts, the Highland Park shooting occurred about 10 a.m. local time, just after the midway point of the parade in the community’s business district. He added: “Prayers alone will not put a stop to the terror of rampant gun violence in our country.” “The shooter is still at large, so let’s pray for justice to prevail, and then let’s move on. For Denmark, which has strict gun laws, it was the first mass shooting since 2015, when two people were killed and five wounded in a shootout with police. Eight hours after the shooting, at about 6:30 p.m. local time, police announced the arrest of a “person of interest” and presumed suspect. Biden also briefly alluded to the shooting during remarks at a White House gathering to celebrate Independence Day with military families. At the same time, the Supreme Court struck down a New York state law requiring that residents show a special need to carry a weapon. Police recovered a rifle at the scene, but, unsure whether the shooter had additional weapons, ordered residents to remain indoors. Law enforcement officials had described the shooter as a young White man with long black hair and a slim build. One spectator, a father, put his young son in a dumpster for safety as he scrambled to find and shield other family members while bullets rained down.

The person of interest identified by police after Monday's shooting in a Chicago suburb left 6 dead and 38 hurt, left a long trail of tributes to mass ...

A video posted to Crimo’s YouTube page on Jan. 2, 2021, appears to show Crimo among a throng of protesters cheering for Trump’s presidential motorcade outside an airport. Crimo also posted frequently to a message board that discussed graphic depictions of murder, suicide and death. The Discord channel was shut down around 6 p.m. ET, just hours after Crimo was named as a person of interest. Another music video showed a cartoon depiction of a man wearing a shirt with his YouTube channel’s logo on it, holding a long gun and being shot by police. On Discord, fans would share posts that Crimo had made of himself. Crimo’s most recent video posted to YouTube showed him in the aftermath of a school shooting.

Gunfire breaking out at a 4th of July party in Highland Park, Illinois. Police now on the scene. UPDATE: Six people have died and over a dozen sent to hospital.

Highland Park shooting: July 4 parade shooting comes weeks after 19 school children and two teachers were killed in Uvalde in Texas and 10 people were ...

One of the clips, which is particularly disturbing, captures the moment when the attacker opened fire from a rooftop. Hindu groups in Canada have complained to the country's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and are also exploring legal options over the poster of a film screened in Toronto on Sunday that they deem offensive. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Zhao Lijian on Monday accused NASA Administrator Bill Nelson of lying “through his teeth” in response to reported comments in a German tabloid about the space competition between the two countries. The Highland Park July 4 parade shooting comes just weeks after a heart-breaking tragedy in Uvalde in Texas, where 19 school children and two teachers were killed. A 'person of interest' - Robert E Crimo III - was taken into custody shortly after the shooting and a high-powered rifle was recovered. Another person killed was Jacki Sundheim, a teacher at a synagogue in Highland Park. The North Shore Congregation Israel confirmed her death.

Six people were killed and at least 19 wounded as gunfire and chaos shattered a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park.

Please share that the parade activities are canceled with your family and friends." "Police are responding to an incident in downtown Highland Park," the city said in a Facebook post. “We saw two cop cars go in the opposite direction, which was unusual. Emir Gomez, 41, stood outside his parents’ house across from the fire station as sirens continued to blare and a helicopter flew overhead. We are monitoring the situation closely." The shooter – described as a white male with dark hair, 18 to 20 years old was still at large, and residents were warned to shelter in place.

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. July 5, 2022 6:27 a.m.. A shooter fired on an Independence Day parade from a rooftop in suburban Chicago, spraying the crowd with gunshots ...

Highland Park Police Chief Lou Jogmen said a police officer pulled over Robert E. Crimo III about 5 miles north of the shooting scene, several hours after police released the man's photo and an image of his silver Honda Fit, and warned the public that he was likely armed and dangerous. "It was just sort of chaos,” she said. He died at the scene, his granddaughter, Xochil Toledo, told the Chicago Sun-Times. Also killed was Jacki Sundheim, a lifelong congregant and “beloved” staff member at nearby North Shore Congregation Israel, which announced her death on its website. Police also found a ladder attached to the building. They left a trail of abandoned items that showed everyday life suddenly, violently disrupted: a box of chocolate cookies spilled onto the grass; a child’s Chicago Cubs cap; baby strollers, some bearing American flags, and children’s bikes. Until laws change, it’s going to be more of the same.” The July 4 shooting was just the latest to shatter the rituals of American life. They identified no motive for the attack in Highland Park, an affluent community of about 30,000 on Chicago’s north shore. Highland Park Police Commander Chris O’Neill, the incident commander on scene, said the gunman apparently used a “high-powered rifle” to fire from a spot atop a commercial building where he was “very difficult to see.” He said the rifle was recovered at the scene. Lake County Major Crime Task Force spokesman Christopher Covelli said at a news conference “several of the deceased victims” died at the scene and one was taken to a hospital and died there. “We don’t blink anymore. “It definitely hits a lot harder when it’s not only your hometown but it’s also right in front of you,” resident Ron Tuazon said as he and a friend returned to the parade route Monday evening to retrieve chairs, blankets and a child’s bike that he and his family abandoned when the shooting began.