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What We Know About the Highland Park Shooting

A gunman shooting from a rooftop killed six people and wounded dozens more during a Fourth of July celebration in Highland Park, Ill., on Monday morning. A 22-year-old man, whom the authorities described as a “person of interest,” was taken into custody in the evening after an extensive manhunt.

Here’s what we know so far.

Police did not immediately charge the man they apprehended, and they said the investigation was still in its early stages. Charges were expected on Tuesday.

Hundreds of police officers had fanned out across the region around Highland Park to search for the man, who they warned was armed and dangerous. At about 6:30 p.m., officers attempted to pull over a Honda Fit whose license plate matched a car belonging to Robert E. Crimo III, a man they had said was a person of interest. He briefly led the police on a chase before he was taken into custody.

Federal and local officers continued their investigation at the scene along the parade route, where lawn chairs, strollers and blankets left behind by fleeing parade attendees remained strewn about, a sign of the chaos and terror that followed the shooting.

Six people were killed in the shooting, and dozens more were injured, ranging in age from 8 to 85. Most of their identities have not yet been released by the authorities.

One of the six who died was Nicolas Toledo, 76. He was sitting along the route in his wheelchair when he was shot at least three times, according to his granddaughter. His son and his granddaughter’s boyfriend also were shot, but not fatally.

Another of the six who died, Jacki Sundheim, a member of the North Shore Congregation Israel in Glencoe, Ill., was identified by the synagogue, where she had worked as an events coordinator and teacher.

Authorities said they recovered a high-powered rifle at the scene of the shooting, which appeared to match witnesses’ description of events.

The mayor of Highland Park, Nancy Rotering, said on the “Today” show on NBC that the gun used in the shooting was legally obtained.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was running tests on the recovered weapon and ammunition.

The mass shooting in Highland Park was the fourth in Illinois since Friday in which at least four people were struck, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The state has among the strictest gun-safety laws in the nation — including universal background checks, red flag warnings and safe storage requirements — but it is surrounded by states like Indiana that have far fewer restrictions to gun purchase and ownership.

Ten hours before the parade shooting, at about midnight, five people were shot at a housing complex in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. On Friday, two people were killed and seven injured in two separate shootings in Chicago, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

Also on Monday, the group reported, there were shootings with four or more people injured in Boston, Sacramento, Kansas City, Mo., and Richmond, Va.



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