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The man detained by police as a “person of interest” in the shooting in a Chicago suburb that left six people dead and many more injured Monday was a local ...

Police detained a person of interest after a manhunt across the Chicago area. The shooting, in which six people were killed, sent a chill across the suburb.

One of the six who died, Nicolas Toledo, 76, was sitting along the route in his wheelchair when he was shot at least three times, according to his granddaughter. When officers attempted to pull him over, he briefly led the police on a chase before he was taken into custody. The shooting, in which six people were killed, sent a chill across the suburb. A 22-year-old man the authorities described as a “person of interest” was taken into custody after an hourslong manhunt. A high-powered rifle was used in the shooting. At about 6:30 p.m., officers attempted to pull over a Honda Fit matching the license plate belonging to Robert E. Crimo III, a man they said was a person of interest.

Police took Robert Crimo into custody on Monday after a police officer spotted his silver 2010 Honda Fit.

The latest: Authorities announced they arrested Robert "Bobby" Crimo III, who had been identified as a person of interest in the shooting, at around 6:30 p.m. local time. At least six people were killed and two dozen others hospitalized in a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, police officials said at a press conference Monday. Robert "Bobby" Eugene Crimo III, 21, is in custody as a "person of interest" in the shooting at a Highland Park, Illinois, Fourth of July celebration that killed six and injured at least two dozen others.

What began as a beloved July 4th tradition ended in tragedy after a gunman opened fire on a holiday parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Ill., ...

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Five victims, all adults, were killed along the parade route Monday, and a sixth died at the hospital, according to the Lake County Coroner.

"There are no words sufficient to express the depth of our grief for Jacki’s death and sympathy for her family and loved ones," it added. Alba Toledo told USA TODAY her grandfather loved drawing, hunting, fishing and going for walks in the park. Authorities have not publicly released the names of the people killed in the shooting. Sundheim helped organized events as the synagogue's events and B'nei Mitzvah coordinator. Five victims, all adults, were killed along the parade route Monday, and a sixth died at the hospital, according to Lake County Coroner Jennifer Banek. She did not have additional information on the sixth victim. Toledo, a great-grandfather and dual Mexican-American citizen, spent most of his life in Morelos, Mexico, and had moved back to Highland Park a few months ago to be with family, Xochil Toledo told the Sun-Times. It is unclear if he is the Mexican national that an official from the Mexican Foreign Ministry’s North America unit said was among the victims.

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“He was an honorable man who worked his whole life and looked out for his family and gave everyone the best he had,” Ms. Straus said. Ms. Sundheim worked at the synagogue coordinating events and doing a bit of everything else. “We brought him over here so he could have a better life,” Ms. Toledo said. He had been struck by a car while walking in Highland Park a few years ago in a prior stint living with family, and had a range of medical issues resulting from that accident. He had moved back to Highland Park a few months ago from Mexico at the urging of family members. All six of those who died on Monday were adults, said Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. A seventh person died on Tuesday, he said.

Police say Robert Crimo legally bought guns before the July Fourth parade attack that he apparently planned for weeks. What we know about the motive.

The suspect lived in a separate apartment, and Paul Crimo said he did not know where he obtained a weapon. He spoke with The Washington Post and said the two grew apart and stopped talking around 2019, and when they spoke early last year, Crimo seemed “depressed." The account posting the videos was suspended. Another video he posted showed a cartoon character carrying a rifle and facedown in a pool of blood, surrounded by police officers. Authorities say the Highland Park shooter fired upon July Fourth festivities from the rooftop of a building. Other images of seemingly anguished characters appear as the voice raps: “I just want to scream. One was found at the scene and a second one was in his car. Keeps everything to himself,” Paul Crimo said, and he was often at his computer. He was arrested "without incident" after a short chase about 5 miles from the shooting roughly eight hours later. It appeared Crimo had planned the attack for several weeks before firing more than 70 rounds into the crowd, Covelli said. The investigation continues a day after police arrested Robert “Bobby” Crimo III, 21, who became the subject of a massive search in the hours after the shooting. Crimo Jr. also ran for mayor of Highland Park in 2019.

A day of national celebration turned to tragedy Monday when a gunman killed six people and injured dozens of others at a July Fourth parade in Highland Park ...

He told CNN he saw a number of people bloodied and on the ground and described the scene as chaotic. "We were going to try to get them," Leon said. "It is a killing machine." "And I was like, something's wrong. He said 19 of the 25 gunshot victims were treated and have been discharged. They believe the shooter, who was apprehended later Monday, climbed onto a rooftop of a business and opened fire It is my destiny." I saw a girl shot and killed." Last year was the worst year on record since the Gun Violence Archive began tracking mass shootings in 2014. They then saw a man "who had an obvious extremely deep bullet graze wound along the right side of his head above the temple." "There is no reason for a person to own a military assault weapon. Crimo is seen narrating, "I need to just do it.

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — Police are holding “a person of interest” in custody in a hunt for the Highland Park gunman who killed six people and injured dozens ...

Another clip shows a person appearing to be Crimo wearing a helmet and vest inside a classroom next to an American flag. The man detained by police as a “person of interest” in the shooting in a Chicago suburb that left six people dead and many more injured Monday was a local rapper whose online presence contained tinges of violence and a haunting monologue depicting a troubled young man. On first glance, Crimo — known online as “Awake the Rapper” — is like many internet performers, with a modest following, amateur music videos on YouTube and tracks on Spotify. In images released by police and on his social media profiles, the 22-year-old, whom authorities described as White, is slight, with a patchy beard and tattoos on his face and neck, including one above his left eyebrow that reads “Awake.”

YouTube has taken down page belonging to man in custody, while Instagram and Twitter have terminated his accounts, as death toll increases.

The shooting comes barely a week after Joe Biden signed into law a bipartisan gun bill intended to prevent dangerous people from accessing firearms. One video shows Crimo sitting in a classroom and then reaching inside his backpack before the screen goes black. At least six people who were killed were adults, Covelli said. Covelli said that, as of Tuesday afternoon, investigators had not found evidence that the victims were targeted because of their race, religion or some other federally protected status, which would dictate whether or not authorities treated the mass shooting as a possible hate crime. By Tuesday afternoon, a seventh victim who had been taken to hospital following the shooting had died, though additional details about that person weren’t immediately available, Covelli confirmed to the Guardian. Police officers equipped with rifles and body armor arrested Crimo after they pulled his car over after he blended in with the panicked parade crowd and fled about five miles north of the mass shooting scene on Monday. Authorities hours earlier had released his photo and an image of his silver Honda Fit.

The latest: Highland Park officials said law enforcement agencies are still searching for an active shooter suspect. The city said 16 individuals were ...

What they're saying: Miles Zaremski, a Highland Park resident, told the Sun-Times there were 20 to 25 shots "in rapid succession. - Several witnesses said they heard multiple shots fired at the parade. Enough is enough!" - Glencoeofficials said the Fourth of July parade had been canceled "out of an abundance of caution." - The city ofEvanston, Illinois, said it canceled its July 4 parade and celebrations due to the "tragic mass shooting" in Highland Park. At least six people were killed and two dozen others hospitalized in a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, police officials said at a press conference Monday.

Lake County Major Crime Task Force spokesperson Christopher Covelli speaks to reporters during a press conference shortly after 3 p.m. on July 4. Robert.

“White supremacy sure isn’t a new phenomenon in this country, and political violence isn’t either,” Biss wrote in the statement. Thus far, friends and family have identified two of the people killed in the attack. At that point, he walked to his mother’s house, which is located in the area, and borrowed a silver Honda Fit that police eventually found him driving in north Chicago on Monday evening after an hours-long search, Covelli told reporters at Tuesday morning’s press conference. Authorities have yet to charge Crimo for the attack at this time, but another press conference is set for 3 p.m. Tuesday where officials are expected to announce formal charges, according to Covelli. Covelli added that the “shooting appears to be completely random,” and no evidence has emerged to suggest the attack was racially-motivated or a hate crime. We’re not done.”

Robert Crimo, 21, faces seven counts of first-degree murder after Fourth of July massacre.

Investigators said at a Tuesday press conference that they had first encountered Crimo when he tried to take his own life in April 2019, prompting a call to authorities who treated the case as a mental health emergency. Police pulled him over about five miles north of the shooting scene Monday after obtaining surveillance video footage of him and his car, Covelli said. Therefore, Covelli said, officials were not currently treating the attack as a possible hate crime. The new details came as Robert Crimo III, 21, was charged with seven counts of first-degree murder over the deadly massacre. Nicholas Toledo Zaragoza, 78, was from Mexico’s state of Morelos. The man alleged to have fatally shot seven people and wounded more than 30 others at an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago managed to legally obtain five guns – including the murder weapon – after a suicide attempt and a threat to “kill everyone” in 2019, authorities revealed on Tuesday.

Lake County Coroner Jennifer Banek announced Monday afternoon the names and ages of the first six of seven victims who were gunned down at the Fourth of.

“White supremacy sure isn’t a new phenomenon in this country, and political violence isn’t either,” Biss wrote in the statement. Crimo allegedly had “some law enforcement contacts” in the past, but no interactions were violent. Covelli reiterated that the attack appears to be random, and the police have yet to identify Crimo’s motive for carrying out the shooting. Authorities have yet to charge Crimo for the attack, but another press conference is set for 3 p.m. Tuesday where officials are expected to announce formal charges. At that point, he walked to his mother’s house, which was nearby, borrowed a silver Honda Fit and was found by police driving in North Chicago after an hours-long search, Covelli said. “It is impossible to imagine the pain of this kind of tragedy until it happens in your backyard.

Families remember the dead after a gunman opened fire from a building roof, striking dozens of people gathered for a traditional Fourth of July parade on ...

Highland Park, Illinois 7:18 P.M. CDT THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, to the community of Highland Park: I bring you condolences from President Joe Biden and.

The whole nation should understand and have a level of empathy to understand that this can happen anywhere, in any peace-loving community. And we got to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are — because you have been forced to have to take it seriously. There is no question that this experience is something that is going to linger in terms of the trauma.

What was supposed to be a day of national celebration turned into a day of tragedy and fear when a gunman killed seven people and injured dozens of others ...

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — A portrait of Robert “Bobby” E. Crimo III as a mysterious and music-obsessed loner began emerging Tuesday, a day after he was arrested ...

“That doesn’t surprise me because when Bobby puts his mind to doing something he goes all out and will do anything to make it happen,” Pacileo said. “I slapped my knee and I said, ‘I know that kid!’” Absler said, when asked what he was thinking when he learned Crimo was in custody. In this age of school shootings, it makes you wonder how close was I or any of my peers to it at school?” Crimo “scared me because of the all the violent things he posted," said the former classmate who asked not to be identified. “Very third-eye type of stuff that kind of goes along with the psychedelic rap and drugs.” “Then reports of him going to this school for troubled children came out as well.” He used words like “timid” and “quiet” to describe Crimo’s personality. “Bobby was depressed,” Pacileo said. He never attended North Shore Academy." “We have received several requests for information from the media inquiring as to whether or not Robert Crimo III attended North Shore Academy," the school's superintendent, Kurt Schneider, said. “He definitely thought there was a border in the mind that needed to be broken through the mind,” he said. “Everybody knew Bobby was off, but he just — he never actually gave signs that he was capable of that degree of violence in my opinion,” Pacileo said.

The 21-year-old suspect made music videos about shootings, and apparently posted thousands of times to a message board dedicated to sharing graphic photos ...

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Authorities charged Robert E. Crimo III with seven counts of first-degree murder Tuesday but said there was no definitive motive for the rampage.

Police said that Crimo planned the attack and brought two rifles to the parade but left one in his vehicle. “This is what it’s all about,” he told his friend, feeling content and proud. “He was a ‘seize the day’ kind of guy,” said Cynthia, an actress in New York. “He worked out every day. Wade, Winters said, she wasn’t in the mood to celebrate America. “Our hearts, our thoughts, our prayers go out to everybody.” His wife had declined to join him for the festivities. Five months later, a relative reported that Crimo had threatened to “kill everyone” in his family. “The problem is mental health and these young men who seem to be inspired to commit these crimes. “The last time I heard a weapon with that capacity firing that rapidly on a Fourth of July was Iraq,” said Duckworth, who lost both legs in the Iraq War when her helicopter was shot down. Another clip shows a person appearing to be Crimo wearing a helmet and vest inside a classroom next to an American flag. He attempted to conceal his identity by wearing women’s clothing, police said, and initially eluded capture by blending in with those fleeing the gunfire. “We must do more as we think and reflect upon their freedom.”

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We thought it was just part of the parade — the shooting. The morning of the parade, John Whitehead, 55, a teacher of eighth-grade American history, was standing in front of the Walker Bros. pancake house. It was that intimate setting — the very thing that made the town feel special — that the gunman exploited, the police said. “It’s so weird,” said Xochil Toledo, 23, who had been standing at the parade next to her 78-year-old grandfather, Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, when he was shot to death. “It was the place where everyone had their birthday parties,” Lisabeth Gansberg, 54, said. “For someone to come and snatch that away from these people, that is just unacceptable.” “Highland Park is always thought of as a safe, beautiful town on North Shore where you can leave your purse on the sidewalk and come back for it,” she said. “It’s one of the very first old suburbs that emerged around the railroads, that actually reinvigorates their downtown in the postwar period,” she said. It was to be the first parade after two years of pandemic-related cancellations. “And when I would drive through here, the first thing I said is, ‘One day I’m going to live here.’ Because it was beautiful. The morning before, Rabbi Chalom was standing in a festive crowd by the commuter station, waiting with the other marchers for the Fourth of July parade to begin. It was always affluent, and still is, but leaders have made efforts to promote the building of affordable housing.