UPDATE: The 21-year-old suspect in the July 4th HighlandPark parade mass shooting has been charged with seven counts of first-degree murder.
Shooting survivor Abby Brosio described seeing the alleged gunman on the roof while she and her husband, Tony, attended the Highland Park Fourth of July parade with their family.When the gunfire erupted, parade-goer Zoe Nicole Pawelczak grabbed her dad and started running through the sea of people."Everybody is crying. We ended up making it behind a corner and we hid behind a dumpster.
"Bodies were horribly, horribly, horribly injured from, you know, guns and bullets that were made for war -- not for parades," Baum said of some of the victims. "We are all mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, and this is a terrible tragedy for many families, the victims, the paradegoers, the community, and our own," the statement read.
Vice President Kamala Harris said in a statement,"On what should be a celebratory day with family and friends, we are grieving the lives that were taken in another act of senseless gun violence."
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