Crimo legally purchased a total of five guns in the state of Illinois, despite police regarding him as a ‘clear and present danger’
Robert E Crimo III, a person of interest in the mass shooting that took place at a Fourth of July parade route in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois, US, is seen in this still image obtained from a social media video. Picture: REUTERSThe man charged with killing seven people at a Chicago-area July 4 parade slipped past the safeguards of an Illinois “red flag” law designed to prevent people deemed to have violent tendencies from getting guns, officials revealed on Tuesday.
The first instance was an April 2019 911 call reporting Crimo had attempted suicide, followed in September of that year by a police visit regarding alleged threats “to kill everyone” that he had directed at family members, Covelli said. State police also said no relative or anyone else was willing “to move forward with a formal complaint” or to provide “information on threats or mental health that would have allowed law enforcement to take additional action”.Three months later, at age 19, Crimo applied for his first FOID card, under his father’s sponsorship.
The state police said that when officers who visited the family’s home over the alleged threats Crimo made in September 2019, they asked him “if he felt like harming himself or others” and that “he responded ‘no’”.
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