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Associated Press
Martha Irvine
Chicago (AP) — A woman who was stunned and speechless in the turmoil of the July 4 parade slaughter — approaching Greg Ring, A 2-year-old boy who is bloody to him. The
ring fled to the back of a popular pancake house with his wife and three children in Highland Park, a suburb of Chicago.
"We met a bit and didn't say anything ... I put my arms out and she gave him to me," Ring said Thursday with an unidentified woman. I explained the exchange.
The boy pointed in the direction of the parade route and said, "Mom, daddy, mom, daddy."
Ring wants to help the boy bring him back into sight. He pushed the boy's face into his chest, so he couldn't see the genocide. However, the ring soon realized that it was too dangerous.
"Active shooter! Get off!" Cried the policeman. The ring ran away again.
He and his family got into their car and took the boy to the Highland Park Fire Department. "I have a boy. He is not ours," he told the department staff.
"They were preparing for the war," Ring said.
The family drove to Ring's house-in-law and crouched there. There, the boy was sitting with a 4-year-old kid in the ring watching a Mickey Mouse show.
"He asked my wife to wipe him out because he had blood that wasn't him," said Ring, an insurance broker at Highland Park.
They later identified the boy and were able to reunite him with his grandparents.
Aiden McCarthy's parents Kevin and Irina were both killed in the shooting, five others were killed and more than 20 were injured.
A friend of McCarthys said Irina's parents would take care of the future boy.
"Aiden ... has a long way to go to heal, find stability, and finally lead an orphan life. He is surrounded by a community of friends and extended families and is loving. Accept him. As you grow up, there are all the means you can use to make sure you have everything you need. Family and Aiden. Your account has raised over $ 2 million.
On Thursday, Ring was still trying to handle what happened in the July 4th parade. He wasn't a hero, he just did what everyone would have done in that situation.
"I'm just full of immense gratitude. I'm really sad. I don't know, I don't know my feelings. I haven't slept for a minute for the last two nights. "He said.
"What happened — it's a miracle that five of us, one or all of me, my wife, and three children, aren't dead. I don't understand. We. Everyone around was beaten or shot. "
The other four killed were identified on Tuesday as Catherine Goldstein, 64 years old. Jacquelyn Sundheim, 63; Steven Strauss, 88; and Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, 78, and Eduardo Uvaldo, 69.
