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Robert Crimo makes first court appearance as prosecutor says he confessed to Highland Park shooting

Robert Crimo appeared in court for the first time on Wednesday for a bond hearing in the 19th Circuit Court in Lake County, Illinois

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Kamala Harris under fire for ‘incoherent’ speech at Highland Park shooting site

‘She did not always sound this incoherent when put on the spot, right? Am I misremembering? It’s getting weird’

The Independent UK

Highland Park banned assault weapons a decade ago. A fragile patchwork of gun laws didn’t stop a mass shooting

Gun violence prevails with frightening regularity as long as high-powered firearms are available, Alex Woodward reports

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Strangers save a 2-year-old boy, whose parents died during the Highland Park shooting

Aiden McCarthy's parents, Kevin and Irina, both died in the shooting, which left five others dead and more than two dozen wounded.

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Robert Crimo ‘sized up’ synagogue months before Highland Park shooting, security officer says

‘He was definitely sizing up the synagogue,’ Martin Blumenthal, a volunteer security coordinator at a synagogue in Highland Park, Illinois, said about Robert Crimo’s visit over Passover

The Independent UK

‘It has just shattered our communities and shaken all of us,’ says official at church that Highland Park shooting suspect sometimes attended

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — Members of the Highland Park community came together to grieve Tuesday after seven people were killed and more than two dozen others injured in a mass shooting during the town’s Independence Day parade.

Chicago Tribune

Highland Park suspect confessed to the July 4th shooting, prosecutors say

The 21-year-old charged with murdering seven people at the parade in suburban Illinois confessed to the shooting after he was taken into custody. He is being held without bail.

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Tucker Carlson outrageously blames mass shootings on women lecturing about ‘privilege’ after Highland Park

‘Would you sell a gun to that guy? Does he seem like a nutcase? Of course he does,’ quipped the Fox News host

The Independent UK

July 4 shooting suspect bought guns legally despite threats

Police say the man charged with killing seven people when he unleashed a hail of bullets on an Independence Day parade from a rooftop in suburban Chicago legally bought the high-powered rifle used in the shooting and four other weapons, despite threatening violence

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Highland Park shooting - live: Robert Crimo appears in court as police say he contemplated second attack

Crimo had threatened to ‘kill everyone’ in his home three years before shooting

The Independent UK

Victims of the Highland Park mass shooting: What we know so far

Seven victims killed in the July 4 attack have now been identified

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Daughter forced to keep running as mother was shot dead in Highland Park attack: ‘I couldn’t stop’

‘I got to have 22 years with the best mom in the world... she was my best friend’

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First Thing: Highland Park shooting suspect charged with murder

Robert Crimo III, 21, faces seven counts of first-degree murder after Fourth of July massacre. Plus, why you shouldn’t mess with New York’s bodegas

The Guardian - UK

Highland Park shooting suspect Robert Crimo bought his guns after father sponsored his permit

Robert Crimo was 19 , two years under the legal age to apply for a gun permit, when his father sponsored him for a FOID card in December 2019 and it was approved one month later

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Nearly $3m raised for boy orphaned in Highland Park shooting as billionaire donates $18k

The young child reportedly told his grandparents that ‘mommy and daddy are arriving soon’

Evening Standard

Chicago shooting: Nearly $2million raised for toddler orphaned in Highland Park Independence Day massacre

Two-year-old Aiden McCarthy was found bloodied and wandering alone in the aftermath of the Fourth of July mass shooting which claimed seven lives

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Highland Park shooting: Suspect charged with 7 counts of murder

Officials say the suspect planned the mass shooting for weeks and had used a legally obtained weapon in the attack.

Salon

Democrats call for action after shooting

"Grocery stores. Schools. Churches. Fourth of July parades."

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The Independent UK

Highland Park shooting - live: Robert Crimo to appear in court after being charged with seven counts of murder

Crimo had threatened to ‘kill everyone’ in his home three years before shooting

Chicago Tribune

Vice President Kamala Harris visits Highland Park following shooting and calls for federal ban on assault weapons

CHICAGO — Less than 36 hours after a shooter opened fire at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, killing seven people, Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in the north suburb Tuesday evening calling for federal action on assault weapons.

Chicago Sun-Times

Kamala Harris visits Highland Park after July 4th parade massacre: “Should never have happened”

Overnight, two colonies of national and local broadcast press set up shop in the suburb, bracketing the east and west sides of the barricaded Central Avenue.

Chicago Sun-Times

To save people from gun violence, close loopholes in the law

A nation is acting irrationally when it allows, as police allege, a 21-year-man to walk into a store and legally buy a high-powered rifle that he will use to massacre parade goers.

WEKU

Harris calls for renewing the assault weapons ban after Highland Park mass shooting

"Congress needs to have the courage to act and renew the assault weapons ban," Harris told a teachers convention in Chicago before visiting the shooting scene at nearby Highland Park.

Chicago Tribune

Alleged shooter in Highland Park July 4 parade attack charged with 7 counts of murder in ‘premeditated and calculated attack’

CHICAGO — Prosecutors on Tuesday filed charges against the man suspected of firing upon crowds gathered for a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park on Monday morning, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 30.

The Independent UK

County attorney calls for assault weapons ban in Illinois ‘and beyond’ in wake of Highland Park shootings

Eric Rinehart says Highland Park will ‘never be the same’

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