Father of Highland Park shooter asks for ‘long sentence’ for his son

Robert Crimo Jr., father of the 21-year-old who shot the crowd at the parade for Independence Day in a Chicago suburb, said her son deserves a long sentence for the crime he committed.

“I want a long sentence,” he said of his son, Robert Crimo III in a interview granted to the newspaper New York Post.

On July 4, just ten minutes after the parade began in the town of Highland Park, Crimo III opened fire from the roof of a shopping center, killing six people, another died the next day; more than thirty passers-by were hospitalized for the gunshot wounds received.

The father has come under fire for having sponsored his son’s gun license authorization, knowing his son’s mental health history, such as threatening suicide or “killing everyone.”

The man, in his interview with the New York newspaper, regretted what happened. “I am speechless with that. He just took me by surprise. It is awful”.

Wednesday before a Chicago court, Crimo III accepted his guilt before the seven charges for murder in the first degree that he faces at the moment.

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