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Reuters
Eric Cox and Brendan O' Brian
Highland Park — When a man with a powerful rifle fires from the roof, 6 people die and at least 20 I was injured. At the July 4th parade at Wealthy Highland Park on the outskirts of Chicago on Monday, the exhibition of patriotic citizens turned into a panicked turmoil.
Police said they had identified a 22-year-old Robert E. Climo III from the area who was interested in shooting. They said he was driving a silver 2010 Honda Fit car.
"He's armed and considered dangerous," Security Officer spokesman Christopher Coveli told journalists that if people saw him, he wouldn't approach him. I added that it wouldn't be.
Officials said the rifle was recovered from the scene. At least 26 people were injured, 25 of whom were shot and 4 or 5 children were injured. A hospital spokesman said the injured people ranged in age from 8 to 85 years.
At least one of the people killed was a Mexican citizen, a senior Mexican Foreign Ministry official said on Twitter.
The May 24th slaughter killed 19 schoolchildren and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvarde, Texas, and after being killed in the May 14th attack, many Americans were shot. It brought a new shooting to the human heart. 10 people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York.
Children waving American flags, riding tricycles, and riding wagons pulled by adults froze when crowds shouted as the bullets rang, according to social media. The video showed.
One mobile phone video confirmed by Reuters but not confirmed sounds like about 30 fast shots, pauses, and about 30 more shots. I recorded things. Between the two bursts, I hear a woman from the side of the parade route saying, "My God, what happened?"
Police said the shooters remained in large numbers.
"He may be in the city. He may be somewhere else," Covelli said earlier.
He said the shoot was taken from the roof of a business that the shooter reached via an alley ladder attached to an unsafe building.
Police asked the general public for tips, mobile phone images, and surveillance videos to help them find him. They had no motive for shooting.
President Joe Byden said he and his wife Jill were "shocked by the meaningless gun violence that once again brought sadness to the American community on this independence day."
Byden said, "We raided federal law enforcement agencies to assist in the emergency search for shooters."
In a statement, Byden mentioned the recently signed bipartisan gun reform law, but said he needed to do more, "to fight the epidemic of gun violence." I'm not going to give up. "
'Really traumatic'
Amarani Garcia, who was attending the parade with his little daughter, told a local ABC affiliate that he heard a gunshot. More shots.
"There were people running screaming. It was really traumatic," Garcia said. "I was very scared. I actually hid in a small store with my daughter. I feel like it's not safe anymore."
In a social media video, marching Other images of people who suddenly collapsed and escaped from the band and left their belongings in search of safety were shown.
"Everyone was running, hiding, screaming," said Elissa Kaufman, CBS2 digital producer at the scene.
A 36-year-old native of Highland Park, who wanted to be identified only as Sarah, told Reuters that she participated in the annual parade most of the year from an early age.
"I heard" pop, pop, pop, pop, pop "less than five minutes after some of the police and fire trucks in the parade passed by," she said, first. I thought it was a masket that was sometimes used in parades.
"I saw, but there was no masquette. Popping didn't stop ... again," pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, "and I looked back," these are shooting. It's a battle, I'll run. "
Highland Park has a population of 30,000, almost 90% white, according to the US Census Bureau. According to the Jewish Telegraph Bureau, about one-third of the population is Jewish.
Shooting could rekindle the American debate over gun control, and whether more stringent measures can prevent the frequent mass shootings in the United States. ..
After the shootings of Uvalde and Buffalo, Congress passed a major federal gun reform for the first time in 30 years last month, a "danger signal" aimed at removing guns from those considered dangerous. Provided federal funding to the states that enforce the law.
We do not ban the sale of assault-style rifles or large magazines, but some background checks by allowing access to information about the serious crimes committed by the boy. We are taking measures. (Report by Eric Cox, Additional Report by Brendan O'Brien and Caroline Staffer in Chicago, Chris Gallagher, David Brunnstrom, Chris Bing in Washington, Daniel Trotta, Daniel Trotta and David Brunnstrom in Carlsbad, California, Edited by Mary Milliken, Bill Berkrot and Lisa Shumaker)
