The Latest Breaking News from Robert Crimo III

CHICAGO — Victims of the Highland Park shooting have filed multiple lawsuits naming the alleged shooter, Robert Crimo III, Smith & Wesson, two firearms dealers and Crimo’s father as the parties who bear responsibility for eruption of gun violence that killed seven and wounded dozens of others during the northern…

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CHICAGO — Victims of the Highland Park shooting have filed multiple lawsuits naming the alleged shooter, Robert Crimo III, Smith & Wesson, two firearms dealers and Crimo’s father as the parties who bear responsibility for eruption of gun violence that killed seven and wounded dozens of others during the northern…

Suspect Robert Crimo III “was ready to go to war — just as Smith & Wesson told him he could,” according to suits that accuse the gunmaker of “deceptive and unfair marketing” and also target others, including Crimo’s father.

“Nobody’s had experience with this,” said Marty Esgar, a Deerfield High School teacher. “We don’t know how many of our students are going to come with levels of trauma.”

CHICAGO — A group of law enforcement officials and experts from around Illinois and across the country gathered in mid-June to begin crafting a plan to increase awareness among the general public and fellow cops of a 3-year-old state law aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of potentially…

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The hearing lasted some eight minutes, about seven minutes longer than it took a gunman to kill seven people and wound 48 others at the July 4 Highland Park parade.

Robert E. Crimo III is accused of opening fire from a rooftop during a Fourth of July parade, killing seven people and wounding at least 48 others.

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — A Lake County grand jury on Wednesday indicted Robert Crimo III on 117 felony counts in the Fourth of July mass shooting in Highland Park that killed seven people and wounded dozens of others.

Robert Crimo III is charged with 21 counts of murder, three for each person who died when he allegedly opened fire from a downtown roof during the Fourth of July parade. He also faces counts of attempted murder and aggravated battery for each of the 48 people wounded that day.