It just has no holiday’s….
There have been over 300 mass shooting’s since Jan. 1, 2022….
More than 30 additional victims were treated at hospitals after the shooter, described by police as a young man armed with a high-powered rifle, blasted seemingly at random into a crowd gathered to cheer on local marching bands in Highland Park, Ill., a community of about 30,000 people on greater Chicago’s affluent North Shore.
At least two long bursts of rapid gunfire left five people dead at the scene and sent hundreds of people fleeing in panic, leaving a wake of overturned lawn chairs, coolers and strollers. The wounded included young children as well as people in their 80s. One spectator, a father, put his young son in a dumpster for safety as he scrambled to find and shield other family members while bullets rained down.
Eight hours after the shooting, at about 6:30 p.m. local time, police announced the arrest of a “person of interest” and presumed suspect. Police identified the man as 22-year-old Robert E. Crimo III of suburban Chicago. He was apprehended without incident after a police officer spotted his car, a 2010 Honda Fit, on a busy highway in North Chicago. Crimo briefly tried to flee but was caught and then handcuffed facedown on the pavement, according to police and photos by witnesses to the arrest….
The death toll is mow at 7 in this mass shooting
—Prosecutors said a 21-year-old man confessed to targeting revelers from a rooftop during an Independence Day parade, killing seven and wounding dozens in an attack that left this city dazed and in mourning.
Robert E. Crimo III spoke briefly by videoconference from the Lake County Jail during a bail hearing ……
Wall Street Journal