Highland Park Police Chief Lou Jogmen said Monday afternoon that police have identified 22-year-old Robert E. Crimo III as a person of interest
last month signed the widest-ranging gun violence bill passed by Congress in decades, a compromise that showed at once both progress on a long-intractable issue and the deep-seated partisan divide that persists.Highland Park residents have been told to shelter in place as police launch a manhunt for the gunman responsible for killing at least six people during the July 4th parade.
"You have a tragic mass act of violence that was random here today at a community event where people were gathered to celebrate, and the offender has not been apprehended thus far," Covelli, the crime task force spokesman, said. "So, could this happen again? We don’t know what his intentions are at this point, so certainly we’re not sure of that."
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said in a statement: "There are no words for the kind of monster who lies in wait and fires into a crowd of families with children celebrating a holiday with their community."Video sent to Fox 32 shows abandoned chairs along the July 4th parade route after a reported shooting in Highland Park. Warning: Portions of the video may be distressing to some viewers.
"It was just sort of chaos," she said. "There were people that got separated from their families, looking for them. Others just dropped their wagons, grabbed their kids and started running."
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