Police in Illinois, in the US Midwest, have captured a man they called a “person of interest” in Monday’s deadly shooting attack at an Independence Day parade.
Robert E. Crimo III (Third), 22, was arrested hours after a brief car chase outside Highland Park, a wealthy suburb of Chicago, where six people were killed and more than 30 wounded when a gunman opened fire on parade goers from the roof of a building along the route.
Police said five people died at the scene, while another person died at a nearby hospital. The Mexican Foreign Ministry says one of the dead was a Mexican national.
A doctor at a Highland Park hospital says they received 26 wounded from the parade between the ages of eight and 85.
Cellphone video captured dozens of people fleeing the scene in panic as the sound of rapid-fire gunshots echoed loudly from nearby buildings. Lawn chairs, baby strollers, portable food containers and other objects were strewn along the parade route, abandoned by people who ran for cover.
US President Joe Biden released a statement saying he and his wife, First Lady Jill Biden, were “shocked by the senseless gun violence that has once again caused pain in the American community on this Day of the independence”.
The shooting in Highland Park came more than a week after President Biden signed the first major federal gun violence bill passed by Congress in decades. The bipartisan compromise bill passed after two mass shootings in May, including a racist attack that left 10 people dead at a grocery store in a black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, and a riot at an elementary school in Uvalde. , Texas, which left 19 schoolchildren and two teachers dead.
[Parte de la información para este informe provino de The Associated Press, Reuters y Agence France-Presse.]
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