Larry Bloom, who was at the parade when shots began, said at first spectators thought the 'popping' sound was part of the parade.
She noted that she a gunman on the rooftop of a nearby business aiming in her direction and ran with her daughter into another business on the street.
"The bodies that I saw, it was not an image that anyone who's not a physician would have an easy time processing," Baum said. A spectator at Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade told NBC 5 she caught a glimpse of the shooter just moments before shots were fired at the parade Monday. Chris Coffey reports.
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