After filming on July 4, Highland Park residents say it may be time to leave the United States.

July 4th, Central Daylight Saving Time when Sherry Serra's cell phone rang. She remembers the time exactly.

What she heard-it was her daughter, Lauren-she never forgets.

"Cry:" There is a shooter, there is a shooter, you have to come to catch us, you have to come to catch us, "Sera recalled.

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"On a planet without a mother, I don't care how old your child is, it wants to get that call."

From Synagogue Lauren and her friend Amanda Levy, who were visiting, attended an Independence Day parade on Monday at the small suburbs of ChicagoHighland Park.

"I think I've blacked out," some of the floats in the parade went into an unexpected situation. Seeing, 28-year-old Levy said. Stop.

"I was confused, and I saw the band running on the sidewalk, and it saw me (Lauren) and the policeman running in the opposite direction. When I saw it. "

A shooter sitting on the roof and dressed in women's clothing while watching the July 4 parade pass through the outskirts of downtown, with seven people killed. 38 people were injured on Mondaywhen he fired at the audience.

Abandoned national holiday remains are still on display at the awkwardly mixed Central Avenue-Green Bay Road intersection as journalists and locals are becoming an unpleasant US ritual on Tuesday. It was done.

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Upward folding chair, miniature flag flapping in the breeze, child's pink bicycle still visible behind police barricade I was there. ..

Residents and visitors stopped by the scene and stepped over the police tape gauntlets to pay homage, steadily increasing the collection of flowers and handwritten expressions of sadness throughout the afternoon.

Serra and Levy were one of a crowd of spectators who cheered with confidence on Tuesday when prosecutors announced seven first-class murder charges against suspect Robert E. Climo III. It was a club.

21-year-old Klimo is not only facing life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, but is also likely to be accused of "tens", Lake County lawyer Eric.・ Reinhardt said.

Authorities also disclosed the identities of six of the seven victims. Catherine Goldstein, 64 years old. Irina McCarthy, 35; Kevin McCarthy, 37; Jacquelyn Sundheim, 63; Steven Strauss, 88, all from Highland Park. Nicholas Toledo Zaragoza, Mexico, 78 years old.

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After learning about it, he said he was the first to respond to the Klimo's house in April 2019.

The next exchange is in September of that year, when Klimo had a collection of knives and he threatened. It happened when his family reported that he was doing it. "Kill everyone." There were no claims or complaints.

Kurimo has five, including a rifle used in the attack, a rifle found in a car with him when he was arrested, and a pistol and other firearms confiscated at his father's house. I bought a gun legally.

Just six weeks after the deadly primary school riots in Uvalde, Texas, violence in Highland Park killed 19 children and two teachers. It was shocking, but not surprising.

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Coveli planned a few weeks of attack to the suspect, concealed a tattoo on his face, and dressed a woman to blend in with the crowd as she escaped the scene.

He states that an archer armed with a powerful rifle climbed the roof of a company along the parade route using emergency stairs before firing more than 70 bullets at the crowd. rice field.

When that was over, the attackers allegedly abandoned the rifle and fled, blending into the crowd as if they were "innocent spectators."

Police have no information that it was religiously or racially motivated, Covelli said. Described the attack as "completely random."

"What should have been a celebration of freedom ended in despair for our community," said a series of officials, investigators, and police behind him.

"All those who stepped out of here and died have lost their freedom. All, all the ounces of freedom they had. Freedom to love, freedom to learn, and a fulfilling life. Freedom.

"Their freedom is also important."

Recently, the pursuit of life, freedom, and happiness, that freedom may include leaving for good.

"I don't like this world we live in at all," Serra said.

"I have serious concerns about where we were and where we are going. And To be honest, I've been thinking about leaving the country several times lately. "

Also, Jim Pearlman, who has lived in Highland Park for a lifetime, is considering his options. He says he's not the only one.

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"Momentum is on the way, many are talking about it and people want to leave," he said in an apartment within two blocks of where the shooting took place. Perlman said.

"They don't feel safe. Kids don't feel safe at school ... it's like a snowman going down a hill and getting worse."

Where are they going? Serra said she has a family in Israel, which is famous for violence. "But it's more predictable," she said.

"This is what it looks like and how it feels to live in Israel."

When it comes to Pearlman, he thinks near his house.

"Everyone talks about Canada," he said. "We may be there."

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