Highland Park

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.

Adrienne Drell, a retired reporter with the Chicago Sun Times, had just picked a spot on Central Avenue at the end of the Highland Park Fourth of July.

“It was just a mess, I just don’t think that the leadership was there in my opinion,” Alexander said. And I thought, like everybody else seems to have thought, that it was either fireworks, or they had some sort of a military display,” Butterman said. But Alexander said most of the people they aided were already close to death: “I didn’t exactly expect many of the people that I helped to really make it more than a few more minutes. People were just running from the shots in the scene that you know. “The gauze was just not enough, and as I was watching this person, I’m like, I know what’s going to happen. I saw smoke from the shooter but did not see the shooter. After they started hearing sirens, they went back to retrieve their bikes and left, but they didn’t see the shooter or any victims throughout their experience. Butterman said it all happened in less than a minute. The police were there so quickly. At least six people were killed Monday morning and more than two dozen injured after a shooter or shooters opened fire on the marchers and parade goers. And we heard that there were shooters.” A marching band wearing blue and white uniforms (likely the Highland Park High School marching band) was passing by when she saw people running.