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40 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

My friend is on holiday just now in Chicago, Schaumburg or something, its the next town over from this place, visiting relatives. They had planned to do a 4th July party etc. Heard from him and they didnt take the kids there but think just all the places are cancelling parties and parades etc. 

They are. The Mayor of Evanston's just been on the TV saying they're cancelling theirs so they're not going to have to use first responder resources that might be needed in Highland Park. 

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Americans shot celebrating Independence Day, their fates enabled by rules enacted by a bunch of slaveowners a few years later, and wildly misinterpreted 246 years later by the Supreme Court.

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5 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

Americans shot celebrating Independence Day, their fates enabled by rules enacted by a bunch of slaveowners a few years later, and wildly misinterpreted 246 years later by the Supreme Court.

Seems to cover it accurately.

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5 minutes ago, Theroadlesstravelled said:

Just give it 5 mins. Chicago has several mass shootings each weekend.

Highland Park is the suburban dream every American has been sold though, children allowed to play and cycle around the neighbourhood unsupervised, last drive by shooting was in 1844.

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4 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

Highland Park is the suburban dream every American has been sold though, children allowed to play and cycle around the neighbourhood unsupervised, last drive by shooting was in 1844.

That's only two and a half hours ago

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1 hour ago, ICTChris said:

Suspect named as Robert Crimo III, still at large.

A Bob Crimo ran for mayor of Highland Park a couple of years ago. Could be his son?

It is. NBC briefly broadcast some cops talking to a woman who was screaming hysterically in her front yard a couple hours back and Mrs Bob is the spit of that lady from her social media pics. 

ETA - he's been pulled in. Genius took the highway fleeing to Wisconsin and his car pinged at an electronic toll plaza. 

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Kids eh!

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Nicolas Toledo, 76, didn’t want to attend the Highland Park July 4th parade, but his disabilities required that he be around someone full-time. And the family wasn’t going to skip the parade — even going so far as positioning chairs for a choice viewing spot at midnight the night before.

Mr. Toledo was sitting in his wheelchair along the parade route, between his son and a nephew, when the bullets started flying. “We were all in shock,” Xochil Toledo, his granddaughter, said. “We thought it was part of the parade.”

Then, she said, “We realized our grandfather was hit. We saw blood and everything splattered onto us.”

Mr. Toledo suffered three gunshot wounds, killing him. His son and Ms. Toledo’s boyfriend were also shot, but their injuries were not life-threatening, the family said.

He had moved back to Highland Park a few months ago from Mexico at the urging of family members. He had been struck by a car while walking in Highland Park a few years ago in a prior stint living with family, and had a range of medical issues resulting from that accident.

“We brought him over here so he could have a better life,” Ms. Toledo said. “His sons wanted to take care of him and be more in his life, and then this tragedy happened.”

 

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Nicolas Toledo, 76, migrated between Mexico and the United States throughout his life, his family said. He was among those fatally shot in Highland Park. Ill., on Monday.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/07/04/us/highland-park-shooting-july-4-parade

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