The father of the suspected Highland Park, Illinois, mass shooter pleaded guilty to reckless conduct instead of beginning his trial on Monday.
Robert Crimo Jr. was charged with seven counts of reckless conduct, accused of signing the Firearm Owner's Identification card for his son, Robert Crimo III, to apply for gun ownership. The younger Crimo was 19 at the time and and too young to get a FOID card on his own. Illinois at the time required people ages 18, 19 or 20 to have parent or guardian authorization.
And, as a member of the Highland Park community, "the last thing that Mr. Crimo wants is the Highland Park community to relive these tragic events and make a public spectacle of this," Gomez said.in the mass shooting at a 2022 Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park., "I filled out the consent form to allow my son to go through the process that the Illinois State Police have in place for an individual to obtain a FOID card.
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