At least six dead and dozens wounded in one of the worst mass shootings in Illinois history during a mass gathering attending the Fourth of July parade at Highland Park. Police arrested Robert E. “Bobby” Crimo III, 22, eight hours after the Chicago Parade Shooting.
Six people were killed and over three dozen hospitalized in a mass shooting at a US Independence Day parade in a wealthy Chicago suburb on Monday. Police arrested a gunman named Robert Crimo, 22, peacefully on U.S. 41 at Westleigh Road in Lake Forest after a massive manhunt across the town of Highland Park in Illinois.
The “Person of Interest” connected to the Chicago Parade Shooting was taken into police custody after a brief car chase. He used a “high-powered rifle” from a rooftop onto a crowd attending Highland Park’s parade on July fourth. The suspect used a ladder attached to the building wall in an alley and started shooting at parade-goers after reaching the rooftop.
As per the sources, the parade began at around 10 a.m. but was suddenly halted 10 minutes after heavy gunshots were fired. Local reporters saw blankets placed over three bloodied bodies. There was severe gunfire, as per the locals.
Here is a brief look at six high-profile mass shootings so far this year before Chicago Parade Shooting:
June 1
A man baffled with rage for the pain he suffered after back surgery storms into a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and fatally shoots four people including the doctor.
May 24
Twenty people including nineteen young children killed after a teenage gunman goes on a shooting rampage at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
May 14
A white teenage gunman kills 10 people at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York.
April 3
Six people were killed in an apparent gun battle during the emptying of nightclubs in downtown Sacramento, the state capital of California.
January 23
Six people were shot dead during a welfare check on a home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A 34-year-old man has been charged with the murders.
USA President Joe Biden called the Highland Park Chicago shooting “senseless”. The shooting came on a holiday meant to celebrate American Independence day and now, it casts a dark shadow over the country’s most patriotic holiday.
