Robert Crimo shot more than 70 times at a 4th of July parade and bought his rifle legally in the US.

Robert Crimothe man arrested for the shooting on Independence Day in Highland Park (Illinois, USA) that left 6 dead and 30 injured, planned the attack for weeks and was disguised as a woman so as not to raise suspicions, authorities reported Tuesday.

This was stated at a press conference by the deputy director of the Lake County Sheriff’s Department, Christopher Covelli, after his department interviewed witnesses and survivors of the event and reviewed video recordings made with cell phones.

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For now, the Police have not been able to establish what Crimo’s motivations were21, and against whom no charges have yet been filed.

“We have no information to suggest at this point if he was racially or religiously motivated,” Covelli added in response to a question about whether it could be considered an anti-Semitic attack because the area where it took place has a large Jewish population.

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What the authorities have been able to clarify is that Crimo, acting alone, planned the attack for weeks.

“He brought a high-powered rifle to the parade, climbed onto the roof of a store via the fire escape ladder and began opening fire on innocent people. attendees at the celebration for the Independence Day”, which is celebrated in the USA July 4th, Covelli detailed.

Robert Crimo in a video on his YouTube channel.

WOMAN’S DRESS TO HIDE YOUR IDENTITY

To go unnoticed the suspect dressed as a woman in order to hide his facial tattoos and his identity.

Covelli explained that the alleged attacker, who fired more than 70 times into the crowd, had bought the gun “legally” in Illinois.

After the shooting Crimo left the roof from which he fired, threw down his rifle and mingled with the crowd as if he were just another spectator at the parade.to go to the house of his mother, who lives in the area.

Over there took his mother’s vehicle to escape but was intercepted as he tried to flee. Inside that car, police found a second rifle.

Local media have echoed several videos and violent messages that Crimo had uploaded to social networks before the attack, including a staging of a shooting at a school.

According to the NBC television network, the young man represented in his videos various ways of murderingand in one of the last shows a beheading. The YouTube platform closed the young man’s page on Monday night.

“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 told CNN.

An aerial drone photo shows an empty float at the scene of the mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois. (EFE/EPA/TANNEN MAURY).

The American President, Joe Biden, ordered today that until next Saturday the flags fly at half-staff in all federal buildings, which includes embassies and consular missions, as well as military installations abroad.

The decision, specified a statement from the White House, is taken as a sign of respect for the deceased, one of them Mexican, and the wounded.

A SHOOTING IN TEXAS THAT HAS BEEN A REVULSIVE

This event occurs after the end of May 19 children and 2 teachers were shot dead by an 18-year-old boy who broke into a primary school in Uvaldein Texaswith a semi-automatic rifle that he had purchased legally.

As a result of that attack and another that occurred in buffalo (New York), with 10 deaths, the country’s Congress approved in June to increase control over firearms, with a minimum agreement between Democrats and Republicans.

The new law, signed by Biden, includes a review of the process for purchasing weapons for those under 21 years of age and extends the so-called “danger alert” (“Red Flag”) standards to the entire country, that allow activating a legal procedure to confiscate the firearms of those who represent a danger to third parties or to themselves.

The legislation also seeks to put an end to what is known as “the boyfriend’s legal vacuum”, whereby until now if someone was accused of domestic violence without being married, they were allowed to continue owning weapons, something that does not happen in the case of married people.

Despite this legislative milestone, The country’s Supreme Court, with a conservative majority, extended the right to bear arms in June by endorsing that they can be carried in public.

Since the beginning of 2022, a total of 317 people have lost their lives in the US in “mass” shootings, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive, which documents this type of violence.

That organization considers as “mass shootings” those with at least 4 victims, either dead or wounded, among which the author of the shooting is not included, in case he has died or suffered injuries.

Source: Elcomercio