'BLOOD, CARNAGE, HORRIFIC,' July 4 Shootings: 'Perp Dressed Like Girl'
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 6 July 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Police say Monday's holiday mass shooting had been planned for weeks.
Seven people died and dozens were injured as Robert Crimo III fired as many as 70 rounds into the crowd from a Highland Park rooftop. The shooter accessed the roof via a fire escape ladder, then fled the scene wearing women’s clothing.
An AR-15-type weapon was used n the assault, but police say Crimo bought the rifle used in the deadly shooting legally — along with four other firearms.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Lisa Fine-Cavalli, Vegas Mass Shooting Survivor (Oct 1, 2017), Co-Founder: Route91Strong, Twitter: @LisaFineLove, Facebook.com/Route91Strong
- Dale Carson - High Profile Attorney (Jacksonville), Former FBI Agent, Former Police Officer, Author: "Arrest-Proof Yourself, DaleCarsonLaw.com
- Dr. Jillian Peterson - Forensic Psychologist, Professor of Criminal Justice at Hamline University (St. Paul, MN), Expert on Mass Shootings and Violence Prevention, Author: "The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic", theviolenceproject.org, Twitter: @JillKPeterson,
- Dr. Michelle DuPre - Former Forensic Pathologist, Medical Examiner and Detective: Lexington County Sheriff's Department, Author: "Homicide Investigation Field Guide" & "Investigating Child Abuse Field Guide", Forensic Consultant, DMichelleDupreMD.com
- David Katz - Former Senior Special Agent with the DEA, Founder and CEO: Global Security Group, Inc., Active Shooter Response Expert,
- Lynn Sweet - Washington Bureau Chief, Chicago Sun-Times, Witness at Fourth of July Parade
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| 0:00.0 | We've all just finished celebrating July 4th, celebrating the greatest country in the |
| 0:20.5 | world America. Can you imagine at celebration hearing shots ring out then screams? |
| 0:31.4 | I'm Nancy Grace this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and |
| 0:37.1 | SiriusXM111. Take a listen to this our friends at NBC. |
| 0:42.3 | From every angle K.O.S. confusion and carnage a July 4th celebration through the |
| 0:50.9 | center of town transformed into a mass casualty incident. |
| 0:57.4 | Police say the gunman took a sniper like position firing onto the parade from a roof |
| 1:02.6 | using a high powered rifle. I picked up my kids and we ran again I put them in a garbage |
| 1:07.9 | dumpster and then I ran back to look for my my partner and her daughter and I saw people |
| 1:16.7 | shot on the ground. The attacks and in crowds scrambling panic parents trying to protect |
| 1:21.7 | their children. Just this horrific pow pow pow. And then you heard people screaming |
| 1:30.2 | bodies down you know run for your life that's what I heard. |
| 1:34.6 | I'm coming right now and I'll start pounding. But first let me go to Lynn Sweet with the |
| 1:38.4 | Washington Bureau. She is the chief for the Chicago Sun Times and a witness Lynn. Thank |
| 1:44.7 | you for being with us what happened. Thank you. I I am usually in Washington as the Washington |
| 1:51.6 | Bureau chief for the Chicago Sun Times. But on July 4th I was in this suburb about 30 |
| 1:57.0 | miles north of downtown Chicago just to enjoy the Highland Park for the July parade. |
| 2:02.6 | I have family here been coming to this parade for years. There is a hiatus because of |
| 2:07.5 | COVID. What happened very briefly is I was at the beginning of the parade near where |
| 2:12.7 | the floats were assembling and all of a sudden I saw a sea of panicked people running |
| 2:19.4 | towards me racing towards me. Somebody I said you know what happens. Somebody said a |
| 2:25.3 | shooter. The enormity of what that meant did not strike me until a few minutes later |
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