Police detain individual of curiosity after mass capturing at July 4 parade in Chicago suburb

Native authorities mentioned they’ve apprehended an individual of curiosity within the mass capturing at a July Fourth parade that has killed not less than six folks and wounded dozens of others.

Officers mentioned Robert “Bobby” E. Crimo III was taken into custody “with out incident” after being noticed in a automobile that matched the outline in an FBI wished poster. Police had named Crimo, 22 years outdated, as an individual of curiosity, simply earlier than 6 p.m. ET Monday.

Earlier within the day, native police described the suspect as a white male with a small construct and “longer,” black hair.

On Monday, a gunman opened hearth from a rooftop on a Fourth of July parade within the upscale Chicago suburb of Highland Park, police mentioned. The gunfire despatched a whole bunch of individuals scrambling for canopy.

Within the wake of the capturing, 5 adults had been lifeless on the scene and a sixth individual died after being taken to the hospital, officers mentioned. The age of the sixth sufferer stays unclear. Some two dozen injured had been taken to hospitals, and others walked in for therapy. Dr. Brigham Temple, an emergency medication physician at NorthShore College Well being System, mentioned these wounded ranged from age 8 to 85.

Police had been going door-to-door to assist seek for the suspect, Covelli mentioned, urging anybody with video of the parade to share it with regulation enforcement.

Covelli mentioned officers recovered a “high-powered rifle” from the Highland Park scene and famous that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is investigating the weapon. Police urged folks within the space to remain indoors whereas regulation enforcement looked for the gunman.

President Joe Biden mentioned he spoke with Illinois Gov. J.B Pritzker and Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering and supplied federal assist.

“Jill and I are shocked by the mindless gun violence that has but once more introduced grief to an American neighborhood on this Independence Day,” Biden mentioned in a written assertion.

The capturing comes simply days after Congress handed probably the most important gun management reform invoice in a long time. After so just lately signing that invoice into regulation and now reflecting on the Highland Park capturing, Biden mentioned, “However there may be rather more work to do, and I am not going to surrender preventing the epidemic of gun violence.”

The Highland Park capturing occurred lower than two months after a lone gunman fatally shot 10 Black customers at a Buffalo, New York, grocery retailer on Could 14. One other gunman killed 19 kids and two lecturers at an elementary college in Uvalde, Texas, simply 10 days later.

Larry Bloom, who was within the space when pictures started, advised NBC Chicago that at the beginning spectators thought the “popping” sound was a part of the parade.

“You heard like a ‘pop, pop, pop,’ and I feel everyone kinda thought perhaps it was a show on one of many floats, after which it simply opened up,” Bloom mentioned.

The capturing occurred on the Independence Day parade route. The Lake County Sheriff’s workplace urged folks to remain out of the realm to “enable law-enforcement and first responders to do their work.”

“This morning at 10:14, our neighborhood was terrorized by an act of violence that has shaken us to our core,” mentioned Highland Park Mayor Rotering, at a information convention. “On a day that we got here collectively to rejoice neighborhood and freedom, we’re as a substitute mourning … the tragic lack of life and battling the fear that was introduced upon us.”

Fourth of July occasions in different Chicago suburbs — Evanston, Deerfield and Skokie — had been referred to as off within the wake of the Highland Park capturing, NBC Information reported. 

— Reuters contributed to this report.

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