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The father of a man charged with fatally shooting seven people at a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago has entered a not guilty plea to charges that he helped his son obtain a gun license years before the attack

An Illinois grand jury has indicted the father of man charged with fatally shooting seven people at a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago

Robert E. Crimo Jr. is to be arraigned Thursday on seven counts of reckless conduct for sponsoring his son’s firearm ownership application in 2019.

DETROIT — The three men whose bodies were found last week in a vacant Highland Park, Michigan, apartment building died from multiple gunshot wounds, state police said Tuesday.

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. — When investigators triangulated cellular data from the phones of three men who had been missing for two weeks after heading to a Detroit rap show, it led to an area near the Highland Park-Detroit border — and police immediately homed in on the sprawling, abandoned Palmer…

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. — The bodies of three missing men — two rappers from Oscoda and Melvindale who'd visited Detroit for a gig along with a friend from Detroit — were found under a pile of debris in the basement of a vacant Highland Park apartment building, according to three…

Robert Crimo III was last in court in November, when prosecutors told a judge they had shared 2,500 pages of evidence with the defense and expected to share thousands of pages more.

Robert E. Crimo Jr. was charged in December with seven counts of reckless conduct for sponsoring his son’s FOID application.

On Jan. 10, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law the Protect Illinois Communities Act, which prohibits the sale and distribution of assault-style weapons, high-capacity magazines and gun switches in Illinois, effective immediately.

“It seems highly likely there would be justices inclined to strike down the law,” said Eric Ruben, a law professor and expert on gun issues. “Whether there are five is another question.”

Illinois has outlawed automatic weapons amid a torrent of mass shootings including a 4th of July parade shooting that killed seven and injured 30