Highland Park

2022 - 7 - 4

At least 5 people are dead after a Highland Park parade shooting on ... (NPR)

At least five people are dead following an "active shooter incident," according to a statement from the city of Highland Park, Ill. At least 16 people were ...

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Suspect still at large after six killed in mass shooting at Fourth of July ... (7NEWS.com.au)

Hundreds of parade-goers - some visibly bloodied - fled the parade route, leaving behind chairs, prams and blankets.

The organization defines a mass shooting as involving four or more people shot, not including the shooter. They hid behind a dumpster for about an hour until police moved them into a sporting goods store and then eventually escorted them back to their car, she said. Firearm evidence was found on the rooftop of a business in Highland Park, police commander Chris O’Neill said.

Police capture person of interest in Chicago parade shooting: Report (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Six people were killed and at least two dozen injured when a man with a high-powered rifle opened fire from a rooftop at a Fourth of July parade, turning a ...

An 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School on May 24 in the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade. Three people died and 11 others were injured June 4 on a busy block in Philadelphia during a melee that began with a fistfight and was followed by random gunfire. Get a note directly from our foreign correspondents on what’s making headlines around the world. The gunman killed himself as police arrived. Police said a suspect is in custody. Law enforcement killed the attacker. “So, I didn’t immediately react, I thought it was just how people are on the fourth.” Other notable episodes of gun violence in recent weeks: Ominous signs of a joyous event that suddenly turned to horror were left on both sides of Central Street. Blankets, lawn chairs, coffees and water bottles were knocked over as people fled. “I looked and there were no muskets. They said he was driving a silver 2010 Honda Fit automobile.

White Sox's Liam Hendriks decries gun violence in comments about ... (Sporting News AU)

White Sox closer Liam Hendriks spoke out about gun violence Monday in the wake of a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Ill., ...

"Something needs to change. "I won’t have to take a test if I want to get a gun. "Something needs to happen because there's way too many people losing their lives."

Highland Park Chabad co-director shares her experience after July ... (St. Louis Jewish Light)

As the Highland Park, Ill., July 4th parade commenced heading down Central Avenue in one of Chicago's most Jewish suburbs.

In addition to The Central Avenue Synagogue, Chabad in Highland Park, with assistance of the Skolnick family, runs a popular Hebrew School program for children, and a plethora of adult and children’s educational programming. So, while there is tragically no formal parade today, our ‘parade’ of a single-vehicle will be traveling the streets of Skokie and proclaiming that message.” Chabad in Highland Park’s base of operations is on Central Avenue, the main thoroughfare for the city where the parade was held today, and a few blocks west of where the attack took place. As word of the attack in Highland Park spread, parades in neighboring suburbs were canceled as well. “People should pray for Highland park and do an extra act of good for us,” he said. Chabad had a table set up outside the center offering passersby a chance to put on tefillin or take a Shabbat candle kit, manned by four young rabbinical students from Chabad’s Yeshivas Ohr Eliyahu Lubavitch Mesivta of Chicago.

Highland Park shooting: Man arrested after 4 July mass shooting (BBC News)

US police have arrested a suspect after six people were killed at an Independence Day parade near Chicago. Police say Robert E Crimo III, aged 22, ...

I'm telling you there is no better day and no better time then right here and right now," the Democratic governor said. You can also get in touch in the following ways: It is the latest mass shooting to hit the US - there has been one in every week of 2022. Mr Crimo was detained after a manhunt. "There are going to be people who are going to say that today is not the day, that now is not the time to talk about guns. The suspect is believed to have fired at members of the public from the rooftop of a nearby shop, where police say they recovered "evidence of a firearm."

Highland Park shooting: At least 5 dead and 16 wounded Fourth of ... (CNN)

A mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade Monday in a wealthy suburb outside Chicago, Illinois, left at least five people dead and 16 wounded, according to ...

"The police started reacting, and I saw some people falling," Leon said. He told CNN he saw a number of people bloodied and on the ground and described the scene as chaotic. Warren Fried, who attended the parade with his wife and 7-year-old twins, said he watched the police and ambulance pass by him at the parade and afterward heard an array of gunshots. My team and I are safe and secure," he said. He said the attack appears to be "completely random" and the suspect appeared to shoot from a roof. A rifle was recovered from the scene, he said.