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At least six killed and 30 injured in Highland park attack amid string of recent mass shootings.

I’m telling you, there is no better day and no better time,” Pritzker said. The violence sent hundreds of marchers, parents with strollers and children on bicycles in the close-knit community of about 30,000 people fleeing in terror, police said. Police have not released details about the victims or wounded. Police are still investigating Crimo’s connection to the shooting and declined to immediately identify him as a suspect. Others just dropped their wagons, grabbed their kids and started running.” “It was just sort of chaos,” she said.

At least six die and more than two dozen are injured in mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Ill.

Lake County Coroner Jennifer Banek said at a news conference that six people were confirmed dead — five adults who died at the scene and one other person who died in a hospital. As they waited, Martinez-Vicencio said she kept thinking of other mass shootings, including the one at Robb Elementary in Uvalde. “I never thought it would happen here,” she said. According to police accounts, the Highland Park shooting occurred about 10 a.m. local time, just after the midway point of the parade in the community’s business district. He added: “Prayers alone will not put a stop to the terror of rampant gun violence in our country.” “The shooter is still at large, so let’s pray for justice to prevail, and then let’s move on. For Denmark, which has strict gun laws, it was the first mass shooting since 2015, when two people were killed and five wounded in a shootout with police. Eight hours after the shooting, at about 6:30 p.m. local time, police announced the arrest of a “person of interest” and presumed suspect. Biden also briefly alluded to the shooting during remarks at a White House gathering to celebrate Independence Day with military families. At the same time, the Supreme Court struck down a New York state law requiring that residents show a special need to carry a weapon. Police recovered a rifle at the scene, but, unsure whether the shooter had additional weapons, ordered residents to remain indoors. Law enforcement officials had described the shooter as a young White man with long black hair and a slim build. One spectator, a father, put his young son in a dumpster for safety as he scrambled to find and shield other family members while bullets rained down.

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Gina Troiani and her son were lined up with his daycare class ready to walk onto the parade route when she heard a loud sound that she believed was fireworks — until she heard people yell about a shooter. "There were people that got separated from their families, looking for them. We just ran. "So we just ran. Debbie Glickman, a Highland Park resident, said she was on a parade float with co-workers and the group was preparing to turn onto the main route when she saw people running from the area. The city said on its website that the festivities were to include a children's bike and pet parade. In a video that Troiani shot on her phone, some of the kids are visibly startled at the loud noise, and they scramble to the side of the road as a siren wails nearby. "You have a tragic mass act of violence that was random here today at a community event where people were gathered to celebrate, and the offender has not been apprehended thus far," Covelli, the crime task force spokesman, said. Lake County Major Crime Task Force spokesman Christopher Covelli said at a news conference "several of the deceased victims" died at the scene and one was taken to a hospital and died there. Lake County Coroner Jennifer Banek said the five people killed at the parade were adults and she doesn't have information on the sixth victim who was taken to a hospital and died there. Covelli said the gunman apparently used a "high-powered rifle" to fire from a spot atop a commercial building where he was "very difficult to see". He said he had "surged Federal law enforcement to assist in the urgent search for the shooter, who remains at large at this time."

Police urged people to shelter in place as they searched for the suspect, who probably fired from a rooftop.

“People started saying: ‘There’s a shooter, there’s a shooter, there’s a shooter,’” Ms Glickman told the Associated Press. “So we just ran. He and other children in the group held small American flags. Others just dropped their wagons, grabbed their kids and started running.” “It was just sort of chaos,” she said. The July 4 shooting was just the latest to shatter the rituals of American life. Armed FBI agents in camouflage escorted a family with two small girls across Central Street hours after the shooting. “Our hearts go out to the families of the victims at this devastating time. In Highland Park, hundreds of parade-goers – some bloodied – fled the parade route after shots rang out, leaving their belongings behind. Hours after the shooting, with bystanders and media standing nearby, about a dozen officers suddenly dashed for a small office building half a block from where the shooting occurred. Blankets, lawn chairs, coffees and water bottles were knocked over as people fled. Her five-year-old son was riding his bike decorated with red and blue curled ribbons. They crouched at the glass doors before flinging them open and rushing in, rifles pointed inside into a dark foyer.

US police have captured a man suspected of shooting six people and wounding more than 36 with a rifle at a July 4 parade in a Chicago suburb.

Please click below to help InDaily continue to uncover the facts. I hid with my daughter actually in a little store. “I was very terrified. People were diving for cover,” he said. Babies were flying in the air. The New York Times named one of the dead as 76-year-old Nicolas Toledo, who was in a wheelchair and had not wanted to attend the parade, but his disabilities required he be around someone full time and his family had not wanted to miss the event.

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“People started saying: ‘There’s a shooter, there’s a shooter, there’s a shooter,’” Glickman told the AP. “So we just ran. Gina Troiani and her son were lined up with his daycare class ready to walk onto the parade route when she heard a loud sound that she believed was fireworks — until she heard people yell about a shooter. “You have a tragic mass act of violence that was random here today at a community event where people were gathered to celebrate, and the offender has not been apprehended thus far,” Covelli, the crime task force spokesman, said. “It was just sort of chaos,” she said. Others just dropped their wagons, grabbed their kids and started running.” He and other children in the group held small American flags. Ominous signs of a joyous event suddenly turned to horror filled both sides of Central Avenue where the shooting occurred. Federal agents conduct such traces to identify when, where and to whom the gun was last sold. The July 4 shooting was just the latest to shatter the rituals of American life. Police also found a ladder attached to the building. The shooting occurred at a spot on the parade route where many residents had staked out prime viewing points early in the day for the annual celebration. Hours after the shooting, law enforcement officers searched an office building near where the shooting occurred.