Breaking Death toll rises to 6 in parade shooting in Chicago suburb; police searching for gunman
HIGHLAND PARK, Illinois -- Six people were killed and dozens were hospitalized in a shooting at a Fourth of July parade in a suburb of Chicago Monday, in what law enforcement officials are calling an active shooter situation, officials said.
A Chicago Sun-Times reporter saw blankets covering three bloodied bodies and five other people wounded and bloodied near the parade's reviewing stand. Several witnesses said they heard multiple shots fired. One witness said he counted more than 20 shots.Police were telling people:"Everybody disperse, please. It is not safe to be here."
"We heard gunshots that I kind of thought it was fireworks, then all of a sudden this wave of people starts running back towards us screaming, crying, hysterical, carrying their kids," Morrison said.The parade had a heavy presence of police and fire vehicles. Highland Park officials asked residents to avoid the city's downtown area as police responded"to an incident."The city of Highland Park provided very little information on the incident in a Facebook post just before 10:45 a.m., only saying the city's Fourth Fest had been canceled.
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