Highland Park Shooting Suspect Charged with 7 Counts of Murder

On Monday during Fourth of July Celebrations, 21 year old Robert “Bobby” Crimo III.
opened fire leaving 7 dead, and at least a dozen injured at Highland Park, Illinois. On Tuesday, Crimo was charged with 7 counts of first degree murder.

According to The New York Times, Crimo has had police respond to his home twice before the Highland Park shooting. In 2019, police responded to a report that Crimo had “tried to kill himself”. Only a few months later, police “came to his home…seizing a knife collection — after a family member reported that he had pledged to “kill everyone.””. According to NBC News, Crimo’s attorney Tom Durkin, “said prosecutors informed him that at a bond hearing Wednesday, they will request no bail, which he said he would not contest “at this time.””. If Crimo is convicted of the murders, he will possibly face life in prision with out parole