Confessed Highland Park shooter Robert Climo III was depressed three years ago when asked about threatening to "kill everyone." However, he admitted to the police that he was a teenage drug user. A newly released document in his family shows.
Highland Park Police Reportdetails why the then 18-year-old shooter was flagged as'clear and current danger'in 2019. .. Dad helped him start collectingweapons that killed seven people and injured dozens of them in a local parade on July 4th.
His relatives said, "After Robert said he was going to kill everyone, a policeman was called to his home in Highland Park at 10 am on September 5th to check his health. I did. ""
The fact that the relative whose identity was edited was" afraid to go home because of the nature of the threat "and" there was a collection of knives in his bedroom. " , Report Wednesday notes released.
Police quized Klimo, then 18 years old, in front of his mother, Denis Pesina. "I admitted that I was depressed ... and I have a history of drug use," said the edited report. No details were given about the drug he was using at the time.
However, a depressed teenager and mother said, "I wasn't close to the language he used, even though one of my relatives was scared and couldn't go home. "The officer who replied said.
Police also talk to Climo's dad, Robert Climo Jr. did. He immediately said, "The collection of knives belongs to him."
"Robert Crimo [Jr.] agrees to hand over a collection of 16 knives stored in a tin can lunch box, along with a 12-inch dagger and a 24-inch samurai-type blade. In the closet of Robert E. Climo III's bedroom, "said the report. According to the report, Dad picked up a weapon from the precincts just four hours after the first call.
Kurimo, who had previously threatened suicide with his mother still present, was "asked if he wanted to harm himself or others," the report said. "Robert replied no," he said.
Still, a local police report told the Illinois state police that they "filled out a clear and current danger form and faxed it."
Such a declaration is "firearm or firearm ammunition. Once access to is granted, the actual imminent threat of substantial physical harm to yourself or others that may act in a way that is clear, important, or dangerous to the public interest.
State police will investigate under the State Hazard Signals Act and allow them to be taken away or banned from active applications and obtained. Did.
However, Kurimo did not have any weapons for state police to take because he "did not have a FOID [firearm owner's identity] card or a pending application" at the time. 72} Illinois police said in another updateWednesday.
"Both individuals and mothers challenged the threat of violence," so Kurimo "told the police that he didn't want to hurt himself or others," his father said Knife. Claimed to belong to him. He will be arrested, "said the Armed Forces.
"As a result of the review of the report at that time, the reviewers concluded that there was insufficient information to determine the clear and current danger."
This meant that there was nothing to prevent Klimo from buying a gun in the future. Climo applied for it only two months later, with the help of his father.
His FOID card application says "Individual to apply" "There is no firearm ban," he said at the time.
"At the time of approval of the FOID application of the individual in question, there was no clear and new information to establish the current danger, arrest, ban on criminal records, ban on mental health, no protection order. There are no other disqualification prohibitors or firearm detention orders.
"The evidence available would not have been sufficient for law enforcement agencies to seek firearm detention orders from the court," the Armed Forces argue. did.
Climo is now 21 years old and will continue to buy at least 5 guns, including thee Smith&Wesson M&P15 semi-automatic rifle. In more than 80 rounds of parade participants on Monday, seven people were killed and dozens more were injured.
Kel Tec Sub2000 was found in his carafter his arrest, and Remington 700, Shotgun, and Glock 43 were recovered from his home, officials said.
Despite sponsoring his son, the murderer's dadsaid in an exclusive interviewon Wednesday that he was "zero" against his son's deadly attack. I told the post that I was responsible for it.
"He bought everything himself and is registered. "He," said the father about his son's weapons.
"He drove there, ordered, picked up, and did a background check for each," said Climo Jr.
He dismissed his son's 2019 threat as follows: He likened the sword and knife, which was a "childish explosion" and was temporarily confiscated at the time, to his previous collection of "coins and baseball cards."
Kurimo was struck by seven first-degree murdersof. It is subject to a compulsory lifelong judgment without the possibility of parlor.
"There will be more charges," said Eric Reinhardt, a lawyer in Lake County, who vowed to bring murder attempts and worse battery charges to each injured individual. rice field.
Police warned that some of the injured remained in critical condition and the death toll could still increase.
