The business district in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park reopened Sunday morning for the first time since a mass shooting at a July 4 parade left seven people dead.
“She called me up in tears and said I’ve lost my safe haven,” Miller said. “Highland Park was always the one place I could go where I was safe and that’s taken away.”people who were killed in the shooting. Authorities said the attacker fired more than 80 rounds into the parade crowd with semi-automatic rifle.murder. Prosecutors expect to bring more charges representing the more than 30 people were wounded in the attack.
Investigators say Crimo, of neighboring Highwood, legally purchased five weapons and planned the attack for weeks before he climbed onto the roof of a business along the parade route and opened fire. Authorities say Crimo fled the parade by blending in with the fleeing crowd, then drove to the Madison, Wisconsin, area, where he contemplated a second attack. He returned to the Highland Park area and his car was spotted by police.about whether Crimo should have been able to legally purchase firearms in Illinois. Illinois State Police officials have defended the approval of his gun license in December 2019, months after police received reports that he had made suicidal and violent threats.
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