Mass shooting at Highland Park 4th parade

[George K]

Iowahawk comments on Twitter:

And please save you stupid "typical Chicago" hot takes, Highland Park isn't even in Cook County. It's a wealthy, very Jewish North Shore suburb. Please engage the 48 hour rule if you don't want to sound like an idiot.

You know Ferris Bueller, and Home Alone, and Risky Business, and all the 80s John Hughes teen comedies? That's the Highland Park we're talking about here.

[jon-nyc]

Ok, that helps me plan my week. Thanks.

[George K]

[Horace]

Giving face tattoos a bad name.

[kluurs]

I did some googling - and there are a couple of people with that name. I always feel sorry for people with an identical name who are in no way related - but who now are forever linked.

[George K]

Alleged shooter lived in Highwood, the suburb directly north of Highland Park. His parents' residence is in Highland Park.

I really hope this guy is captured alive.

[George K]

They caught him...

[George K]

@George-K said in Mass shooting at Highland Park 4th parade:

They caught him...

[George K]

[Catseye3]

A fine upstanding fellow. Must be some mistake.

[George K]

@Catseye3 said in Mass shooting at Highland Park 4th parade:

fine upstanding fellow.

[LuFins Dad]

5 will get you 10 the kid was Antifa.

[George K]

@LuFins-Dad said in Mass shooting at Highland Park 4th parade:

5 will get you 10 the kid was Antifa.

I'll reserve judgment for now.

If you're right, his name will be forgotten like the self-driving SUV in Waukesha James Hodgkinson in 6 months .

[89th]

Yeah no warning signs at all from that guy.

[Jolly]

Sorry, in a society that is celebrating the fucked-up as desirable, this is what you get.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in Mass shooting at Highland Park 4th parade:

Sorry, in a society that is celebrating the fucked-up as desirable, this is what you get.

Seems to me there's there's a million reasons this can happen. We've blamed it on Muslims, white supremacists, computer gamers, gun owners, and now apparently it's trans folk.

Maybe pointing the finger at some group every time there's a tragedy like this isn't the best response?

At the very least, blaming a group we don't like doesn't seem to have improved things much as far as I can tell.

[Jolly]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Mass shooting at Highland Park 4th parade:

@Jolly said in Mass shooting at Highland Park 4th parade:

Sorry, in a society that is celebrating the fucked-up as desirable, this is what you get.

Seems to me there's there's a million reasons this can happen. We've blamed it on Muslims, white supremacists, computer gamers, gun owners, and now apparently it's trans folk.

Maybe pointing the finger at some group every time there's a tragedy like this isn't the best response?

At the very least, blaming a group we don't like doesn't seem to have improved things much as far as I can tell.

Look at the kid. Look at his videos.

He's fucked up.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in Mass shooting at Highland Park 4th parade:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Mass shooting at Highland Park 4th parade:

@Jolly said in Mass shooting at Highland Park 4th parade:

Sorry, in a society that is celebrating the fucked-up as desirable, this is what you get.

Seems to me there's there's a million reasons this can happen. We've blamed it on Muslims, white supremacists, computer gamers, gun owners, and now apparently it's trans folk.

Maybe pointing the finger at some group every time there's a tragedy like this isn't the best response?

At the very least, blaming a group we don't like doesn't seem to have improved things much as far as I can tell.

Look at the kid. Look at his videos.

He's fucked up.

Everybody who kills lots of people in a mass shooting is fucked up in one way or another - it's a prerequisite. The last school shooting was initially blamed on the guy being trans, except of course it turns out he wasn't. Somebody else immediately assumed the guy in Denmark was a Muslim, except of course he wasn't.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Mass shooting at Highland Park 4th parade:

@Jolly said in Mass shooting at Highland Park 4th parade:

Sorry, in a society that is celebrating the fucked-up as desirable, this is what you get.

Seems to me there's there's a million reasons this can happen. We've blamed it on Muslims, white supremacists, computer gamers, gun owners, and now apparently it's trans folk.

Maybe pointing the finger at some group every time there's a tragedy like this isn't the best response?

At the very least, blaming a group we don't like doesn't seem to have improved things much as far as I can tell.

1. Modern life is screwy in ways that are unique to our time. But like always, there exist toxic subcultures that do more harm to people than good. (No, I don't think transgenderism per se is a toxic subculture. But they do have their share of toxic participants, and any objective analysis would demonstrate that. You can say the same about Christian Fundamenalists or Muslims if you like, the point is the same.)
2. Mass shootings are a social contagion. In the 1500s it was witch hunts. A hundred years later, it was the Dancing Plague. Today, we have mass shootings.

Without knowing the specifics, I feel comfortable saying this person probably suffers from both of the above.

[George K]

Suspect Was Disguised as a Woman, Police Say

Police said a 21-year-old man disguised himself as a woman as he carried out a carefully planned attack on a Fourth of July parade that left six people dead and 34 injured in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park.

The suspect was taken into custody Monday evening and identified as Robert E. Crimo III. Charges are pending as police investigate the attack, said Chris Covelli, spokesman for the major crimes task force in surrounding Lake County.

“Crimo was dressed in a woman’s clothing and investigators do believe he did this to conceal his identity and help blend in with other people who were fleeing the chaos,” Mr. Covelli said.

Mr. Covelli said Mr. Crimo, who authorities had earlier said was 22 years old, planned the attack for several weeks and legally purchased a high-powered rifle in the greater Chicago area that he allegedly abandoned at the scene. The rifle was one of four firearms the gunman bought legally and recently, according to two law-enforcement officials familiar with the investigation.

Mr. Crimo climbed onto the roof of a building using a fire-escape ladder and fired more than 70 rounds during the attack, Mr. Covelli said. He escaped down the ladder before police could apprehend him, Mr. Covelli said, and made his way to his mother’s nearby house, where he borrowed her car.

Mr. Covelli said an alert citizen saw Mr. Crimo driving in his mother’s Honda Fit on a nearby road Monday evening and called 911, leading to his arrest.

Mr. Crimo was an aspiring rapper who used the stage name Awake the Rapper, according to videos viewed by The Wall Street Journal. In one video, since taken down by YouTube, Mr. Crimo sings, “I know what I have to do.” The video is accompanied by drawings of a person pointing a rifle at another person with his hands up. Another scene shows a drawing of a man bleeding from a chest wound.

Gio Montenegro, who lives near Mr. Crimo’s residence in Highwood, a suburb north of Highland Park, described Mr. Crimo as a loner and antisocial. He said he would ride around the neighborhood on an electric bike blasting techno music on a speaker wearing a black helmet, goggles covering his eyes, a black mask and black clothing. “He didn’t speak to anyone,” Mr. Montenegro said.

Mr. Crimo’s father is well-known and respected, said Mr. Montenegro. He owned a deli in Highland Park and once ran for mayor. Mr. Crimo’s uncle told reporters that he saw his nephew the day before the shooting. “There were no signs that I saw that would make him do this,” Paul Crimo told CNN on Monday after his nephew was taken into custody in connection with the shooting.