The shooting occurred on Monday morning in Highland Park, near Chicago. The suspect, a 22 -year -old local musician, was arrested in the evening behind the wheel of his car.
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The day of independence, in the United States, is a moment of festivities and patriotic ardor. It is generally synonymous with flags, fireworks, concerts and barbecues. The parade had just started, on Monday, July 4 in the morning at Highland Park, a posh and calm agglomeration 40 km north of Chicago (Illinois), when shots resounded. Panic took hold of the participants, who came with the family. In total, according to a provisional assessment, the killer left at least six dead and 26 injured, who were hospitalized. He had put himself in the lying position, on the roof of a commercial building, so that it could not be clearly distinguished.
The author of the killing abandoned his assault rifle on the spot, before fleeing. The perimeter was completed and a man hunting triggered to apprehend the suspect, finally arrested in the early evening behind the wheel of his car. Robert Crimo, 22, is apparently a local musician, bearing the nickname “Awake” (“awake”), with a tattoo of roses wrapping around his neck. On social networks, his videos and photos were dissected endlessly throughout the evening to determine his ideological profile, his commitments spent, even before the police concluded his hunt and disseminated safe information.
In a statement, Joe Biden said he was shocked by “insane violence by firearm which once again bereaved an American community on independence day”. The president spoke by telephone with the Illinois Democratic Governor, J. B. Pritzker, and the mayor of Highland Park, Nancy Ritering. “We can do much more work and I will not give up in the fight against the epidemic of violence by firearms,” said Joe Biden, while recalling that he had recently signed “the first Bipartisan legislation of Reform in terms of weapons for almost thirty years “.
nearly 400 million firearms in circulation
The American president referred to the compromise text, negotiated between senators of the two edges, under the leadership of the Democrat Chris Murphy (Connecticut) and the Republican John Cornyn (Texas), in response to the killings of Buffalo, in the State from New York, and the Uvalde school, in Texas, in May. Among the proposed measures was the strengthening of the checks of judicial and psychiatric history for any buyer of arms under the age of 21. But no consensus was possible to prohibit the weapons of war again, which had been banned from 1993 until the expiration of the legislation in 2004. There would be 20 million today in circulation in the country.
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