Highland Park parade shooting

The latest news and coverage on the mass shooting that occurred the morning of July 4, 2022, during the Fourth of July parade in suburban Highland Park.

Ashbey Beasley, who was at the Highland Park July 4th parade shooting, went viral after addressing the media in the wake of a shooting that killed three students and three adults at a Nashville elementary school.
A civil suit filed in last year’s Highland Park Fourth of July parade massacre asserts a gun company’s marketing influenced the man accused of being parade shooter.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed the brief to answer challenges to the assault weapon ban, arguing the nation’s founding fathers owned guns that could only shoot a single shot before reloading — proving assault weapons weren’t in “common use” at the time.
A set of FBI affidavits, unsealed in federal court Thursday, seem to offer the most substantive details yet about the closely guarded case. Crimo faces 117 felony counts filed in Lake County for allegedly firing an assault rifle at paradegoers from a rooftop in the north suburb.
The walk will be held along the parade route and is one of several events to be held that day, themed ‘We are Highland Park,’ the city announced.
Prosecutors say Robert E. Crimo Jr. was criminally reckless when he signed his underage son’s gun ownership permit.
Robert E. Crimo Jr. will be arraigned Thursday on seven counts of reckless conduct for sponsoring his son’s firearm ownership application in 2019.
Robert Crimo III was last in court in November, when prosecutors told a judge they had shared 2,500 pages of evidence with the defense and expected to share thousands of pages more.
Robert E. Crimo Jr. was charged in December with seven counts of reckless conduct for sponsoring his son’s FOID application.
Although the National Rifle Association is not listed as a plaintiff, a spokesperson says it joined the National Sports Shooting Foundation to file the suit, similar to what it did in a New York case that went before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Illinois State Rifle Association lawsuit appears to be the first in federal court to challenge Illinois’ new weapons ban, but it is part of a burgeoning legal effort aimed at undoing the new law. Other lawsuits have been filed in state court.
A suit filed Jan. 13 in southern Illinois marked the beginning of the legal battle to overturn the law Gov. J.B Pritzker called “one of the strongest assault weapons bans in the nation.” Another suit was filed Tuesday by Tom DeVore, a Republican former attorney general candidate.
“We have done this for Highland Park’s Kevin and Irina McCarthy, Jacquelyn Sundheim, Katherine Goldstein, Eduardo Uvaldo, Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza and Stephen Straus. For Benito Juarez High School’s Brandon Perez and Nathan Billegas, just 15 and 14.”
Lawmakers heard audio that began with a high-pitched cry from a child at last year’s Highland Park Fourth of July parade before a 34-20 Senate vote to approve the measure.
After a lengthy debate that stretched into Friday, the House voted 64-43 to pass the measure that would also ban “rapid-fire devices” that turn firearms into fully automatic weapons. It must still clear the Illinois Senate.
He was struck in his spine and left paralyzed below his waist in the Fourth of July parade shooting in which seven people were killed and nearly 50 wounded.
The 8-year-old’s family is trying to raise $2 million to buy or build a house with easy access for his wheelchair.
Robert Crimo Jr. faces 7 felony reckless conduct charges for sponsoring his son Robert Crimo III’s application for a state firearm owner’s identification card.
In 2019, when Robert E. Crimo III was still underage, Robert Crimo Jr. sponsored his son’s application for a state firearm owner’s identification card. That was “a contributing cause to the bodily harm suffered by the victims on July 4,” Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart said Friday.
Survivors and others testified at an Illinois House committee hearing, calling for bipartisan support for an assault weapons ban.
The measure would ban the sale of assault weapons immediately, prevent sales of ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds and raise eligibility for a state firearm owner identification card to 21.
The temporary memorial garden was created next to Highland Park city hall as plans for a permanent fixture are put off while survivors of the shooting recover.
All donations collected by the Together Highland Park Unidos committee were distributed to victims, their families and 17 local organizations providing mental health services.