The Highland Park Fourth of July parade ended in panic when shots were fired about 10 minutes after the parade kicked off at 10 a.m. Monday, striking an unknown number of parade-goers and sending hundreds of people running for safety.
Multiple people were shot. A Chicago Sun-Times reporter saw blankets covering three bloodied bodies and five other people wounded and bloodied near the parade's reviewing stand.
Miles Zaremski, a Highland Park resident, told the Sun-Times: "I heard 20 to 25 shots, which were in rapid succession. So it couldn't have been just a handgun or a shotgun."
Zaremski said that after the shots at Central Avenue around Second Avenue in downtown Highland Park, he saw "people in that area that got shot," including "a woman covered with blood . . . She did not survive."
Horror on the Fourth: Suspect in custody after 6 killed, dozens wounded at Highland Park Fourth of July parade
Robert E. “Bobby” Crimo III, 21, was “taken into custody without incident” on U.S. 41 at Westleigh Road in Lake Forest after being spotted by North Chicago police.
chicago.suntimes.com
Highland Park is a north suburb of Chicago, killer has not been caught yet.
UPDATE: 6 Dead, 24 Hospitalized https://twitter.com/WGNNews/status/1544019644041859073
UPDATE: Killer identified https://twitter.com/WGNNews/status/1544083986934366208
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