Highland Park, Illinois — The woman who survived the mass shootingat the parade on the outskirts of Chicago on July 4th survived the parade on the outskirts of Chicago on Monday. It ’s a miracle. ” Next to her family was one of the sixkilled.
Highland Park's Lorena Sebano, 44, was grazed on her right ankle as a bullet fell on attendees from a shooter placed on her roof. 38 people were injured in the downtown parade.
Sevano, who spoke on the phone on Tuesday, how bullets began to be blown off by her during a celebration she attended with her sister, cousin, and her family. I explained Taka in Spanish.
She said she initially thought she was a fireworks when the shooting happened. But then she could see the bullets bounce off the street and smoke around the gunshot. At that time, she and the other families were all dispersed in different directions.
Sebano said she rushed to a nearby store for safety.
"It's a miracle," she said about escaping the slaughter without further injury. "It was God."
"One of the murderers was right next to us," Sebano said.
She said the person wasNicolasToledo, 78 years old. Toledo's son, Alejo, confirmed to NBC News that his father was the victim of the shooting.
Sebano's daughter, Jissel Figueroa, 22, says her family knows Toledo's family. rice field. More devastating.
Toledo, 78, initially didn't want to go to the parade, one of his granddaughters told theNew York Times. But his disability meant he had to accompany him full-time, so his family brought him, the newspaper reported.
"We were all shocked. I thought it was part of the parade," her granddaughter Xochil told the newspaper. "I noticed that my grandfather was beaten. We saw blood and everything splattered on us."
Four members of Sebano's family were also injured in the attack. ..
Eventually, Sebano said her sister was the worst injured. She said a piece of metal got into her knee.
The youngest injured family was an 11-year-old boy, Figueroa said. She said that none of her relatives' injuries were life-threatening.
Figueroa said she was on her way to the parade when her mother called her and said she had been shot. She said the annual family tradition for participating in the holiday parade is now forever polluted.
"It will never be the same. The city and the community will never be the same," she said.
Robert "Bobby" E. Climo III, 21,, arrested by police hours after the deadly shooting, had planned an attack for several weeks, officials said Tuesday. Said to. He fired more than 70 rounds from the rooftop of the parade route and shot the victims randomly, officials said.
