UPDATE: Reports of 6 dead, 2 dozen others likely shot during Highland Park Fourth of July parade.
The shooter, who police said began firing from a nearby rooftop, had not been caught or identified as of Monday afternoon, and the area around the parade route remained an active crime scene, according to Lake County Deputy Sheriff Chris Covelli. He urged people to stay in their homes and be careful.“This person is not identified. By all means, at this point, this appears to be completely random,” Covelli said.
The shooter had not been located and people in the area were being advised to “shelter in place.” Highland Park police patrol Cmdr. Chris O’Neill said the shooter remained unidentified and was considered armed. A rifle was recovered from the scene. Security at the hospital directed reporters away from the emergency room entrance. One security staffer told a reporter the hospital was on lockdown.
“It didn’t even cross my mind that there would be a shooter,” Mangoubi said. “Then somebody yelled, ‘There’s a shooter!’ so we just picked up our kids, grabbed them under their arms and just started bolting to the car.” Shane Selieg, 29, was on a street corner nearby when the tragedy started. He had volunteered to work the holiday as a medic but didn’t expect to see the violence that unfolded. Selieg performed CPR on a gunshot victim, he said, and his leg was covered in blood.On Monday morning, Gov. J.B. Pritzker left a parade he’d been attending in Hyde Park on Chicago’s South Side, according to sources who were there.
Highland Park resident Eric Trotter described the violence that unfolded: a series of gunshots that at first sounded like fireworks, then a rush to run away. Trotter returned to the scene later, where he saw people helping the wounded and searching for family members.
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