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Post by Admin on Jul 4, 2022 17:14:08 GMT
Multiple people shot during Fourth of July parade north of Chicago | FOX 5 DC 2,105 watching now Started streaming 23 minutes ago The Highland Park Fourth of July parade was suddenly halted when shots were fired Monday, striking an unknown number of parade-goers and sending hundreds of people running for safety.
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. - The Highland Park Fourth of July parade was suddenly halted when shots were fired about 10 minutes after the parade kicked off at 10 a.m. Monday, striking an unknown number of parade-goers and sending hundreds of people running for safety.
A law enforcement source tells Fox 32 News that one person was fatally shot and there are multiple other people who were wounded in the shooting.
A Chicago Sun-Times reporter saw blankets covering three bloodied bodies and five other people wounded and bloodied near the parade’s reviewing stand. Several witnesses said they heard multiple shots fired. One witness said he counted more than 20 shots.
Police were telling people: "Everybody disperse, please. It is not safe to be here."
Debbie Glickman, a Highland Park resident, said she was on a parade float with coworkers and the group was prepared to turn onto the main route when she saw people running away from the area.
Highland Park business owner speaks on witnessing July 4th parade shooting Gilat Zamos, owner of My Beast Friend's Closet in Highland Park, talks about what she saw and experienced as gunfire erupted while the Fourth of July parade was getting underway.
"People started saying `There's a shooter, there's a shooter, there a shooter,"' Glickman told the Associated Press. "So we just ran. We just ran. It's like mass chaos down there."
She didn't hear any noises or see anyone who appeared to be injured.
"I'm so freaked out," she said. "It's just so sad."
Neesa Sweet, a Highland Park resident, said she was "about a half block away, walking toward the reviewing stand. Suddenly, I heard loud, repeated, rapid-fire shots. It lasted a long time. People started running away."
U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider and his campaign team were lining up for the parade prior to the shooting.
As they fled the parade route on Central Street in downtown Highland Park, parade-goers left behind chairs, baby strollers and blankets as they sought cover, not knowing just what happened.
Police were patrolling the area with rifles.
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Post by Admin on Jul 4, 2022 18:05:38 GMT
‘Sickening’: Witness describes shooting at July 4th parade 11,492 views Jul 5, 2022 Police are responding to a shooting in downtown Highland Park, Illinois, in the area of a July 4th parade, the Lake County Sheriff's Office said. The city of Highland Park, a suburb about 25 miles north of Chicago, said its Independence Day parade has been canceled and advised people to avoid downtown. CNN's Kaitlan Collins spoke with a witness to the shooting. #CNN #News
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Post by Admin on Jul 4, 2022 18:21:19 GMT
Multiple people shot during July 4th parade in Highland Park 14,647 watching now Started streaming 80 minutes ago The Highland Park Fourth of July parade was suddenly halted when shots were fired about 10 minutes after the parade kicked off at 10 a.m. Monday, striking an unknown number of parade-goers and sending hundreds of people running for safety.
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Post by Admin on Jul 4, 2022 18:42:07 GMT
LIVE: Multiple people killed, injured in Fourth of July parade shooting in Illinois | NBC News 12,506 watching now Started streaming 35 minutes ago Watch live coverage as least six people were killed and 16 injured after gunfire erupted at a July Fourth parade in Highland Park, Illinois.
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Post by Admin on Jul 4, 2022 20:54:12 GMT
Six people are dead and at least 24 injured in a mass shooting at a 4th of July parade in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Highland Park on Monday, authorities said. Police said the gunman, who was still on the run hours later, randomly opened fire with a “high-powered rifle” from the roof of a building overlooking the parade route shortly after 10 a.m. Five adults died at the scene and another succumbed to their injuries after being rushed to hospital, Lake County Coroner Jennifer Banek said. The age of that victim wasn’t immediately known. At least one child was taken to hospital in a critical condition and many others suffered gunshot wounds to their abdomens and limbs, according to police. Authorities believe the shooter, who was described as a white male with long dark hair and aged between 18 to 20 years, climbed onto the roof via a ladder attached to the building. The rifle was later recovered from the roof, cops said, adding the shooter was “discreet and difficult to see” when he started killing off the innocent revelers. One witness told WGN TV that he saw the shooter as the gunfire erupted, saying “he was very military style, methodical in the way he was crouched and shooting.” Other witnesses, including some who initially confused the gunshots for Independence Day fireworks, told the Chicago Sun Times they counted at least 20 shots being fired. “I heard 20 to 25 shots, which were in rapid succession. So it couldn’t have been just a handgun or a shotgun,” local resident Miles Zaremski said.
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