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Robert Crimothe suspect in the latest mass shooting in USAwhich occurred on Monday in the town of Highland Park, Illinois and in which six people died, had violent videos and messages on social networks, including a staging of a shooting at a school, local media reported Tuesday.
The 22-year-old Robert Crimowas arrested Monday night, about eight hours after shooting from a rooftop at participants and spectators of the parade on July 4 in this town on the outskirts of Chicago.
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According to local media, such as the television network WGN9, the young man was a rapper and posted numerous messages and videos on social networks, including one in which he staged a shooting at a school and another in which he simulates his own death in a confrontation with the Police.
The young man represented various forms of murder in his videos, and in one of the last ones he shows a decapitation, as reported by NBC. The YouTube video website closed the young man’s page on Monday night.
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“We know that many of the videos that he posted really reflected a plan and a desire to commit a massacre,” Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering said this morning on CNN.
Rotering also lamented that there are “weapons of war” that people can legally buy in USA to commit crimes like the one that occurred in this town.
The media have also released a video of the arrest of Robert Crimo on Monday nighteight hours after this shooting took place in which six people were killed and two dozen were injured.
Among the deceased is a Mexican citizen, Nicolás Toledo, a migrant in the United States for decades who was in Highland Park visiting his family.
The granddaughter of the deceased, Xochil Toledo, explained to the Chicago Sun Times that her father was also injured when he tried to protect his grandfather from the bullets.
One of the now scrubbed videos from Highland Park suspect Robert Crimo AKA Awake The Rapper. This was long planned. pic.twitter.com/NWuQx66cFZ
— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) July 4, 2022
Source: Elcomercio
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