Highland Park shooting suspect's past littered with 'red flags,' former classmate says.
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — A portrait of Robert “Bobby” E. Crimo III as a mysterious and music-obsessed loner began emerging Tuesday, a day after he was arrested in the wake of a mass shooting at a July Fourth parade that left seven dead and traumatized an affluent Chicago suburb.
“Bobby was depressed,” Pacileo said. “He also went off the deep end after he broke up with his girlfriend a few years ago."“He definitely thought there was a border in the mind that needed to be broken through the mind,” he said. “Very third-eye type of stuff that kind of goes along with the psychedelic rap and drugs.”
“At that time, there was no probable cause” to arrest Crimo, said Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli of the Highland Park Police Department. Multiple knives were confiscated, as well as a sword and a dagger, but he didn’t have firearms, Covelli said. Also, Crimo was constantly in trouble with his teachers. “You always saw him wandering the hallways,” the ex-classmate said.
Crimo also put stickers promoting his music all over the school, Absler said. But by the end of their sophomore year in 2017, Crimo was gone. “I slapped my knee and I said, ‘I know that kid!’” Absler said, when asked what he was thinking when he learned Crimo was in custody. “I just couldn’t believe it. It’s just chilling to know you met somebody, walked in the same halls, we were in the same gym class one year. In this age of school shootings, it makes you wonder how close was I or any of my peers to it at school?”
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