Sunday when a man was shot while shoveling snow on Chicago’s South Side. Schneider added: “My condolences to the family and loved ones my prayers for the injured and for my community and my commitment to do everything I can to make our children, our towns, our nation safer.The weekend’s latest incident took place around 10 a.m. Meanwhile, a local congressman, Brad Schneider, who was at the parade, said: “My campaign team and I were gathering at the start of the parade when the shooting started.
“There is much more work to do, and I’m not going to give up fighting the epidemic of gun violence,” he said. The president, who recently managed to get some moderate gun reform legislation through Congress, pledged to do more. Joe Biden echoed those statements, calling the attack “senseless” and saying he had “surged” federal law enforcement to help look for the shooter. There are no words for the kind of evil that robs our neighbors of their hopes, their dreams, their futures.” The Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, said in a statement: “There are no words for the kind of monster that lies in wait and fires into a crowd of families and children celebrating a holiday with their community. Others just dropped their wagons, grabbed their kids and started running.” “There were people that got separated from their families, looking for them. In a video that Troiani shot on her phone, some of the kids are visibly startled at the loud noise and they scramble to the side of the road as a siren wails nearby. Witnesses described chaos after the attack. Troiani said she pushed her son’s bike, running through the neighborhood to get back to their car. The city said on its website that the festivities were to include a children’s bike and pet parade.
He and other children in the group held small American flags. Her five-year-old son was riding his bike decorated with red and blue curled ribbons. “We just start running in the opposite direction,” she told the Associated Press. Gina Troiani and her son were lined up with his daycare class ready to walk onto the parade route when she heard a loud sound that she believed was fireworks until she heard people yell about a shooter. Witnesses spoke of chaos and shock at the attack. The Chicago killings – striking on the country’s cherished Independence Day amid traditional images of a parade – are only likely to make that debate even more acute. They have triggered an anguished national debate as to why such events happen with deadening regularity in America and why officials and politicians appear powerless to stop them. The attack is just the latest in a wave of public shootings to hit the US in recent weeks, including a mass shooting in a school in Texas and a racially motivated massacre in Buffalo, New York. She didn’t hear any noises or see anyone who appeared to be injured. “People started saying ‘There’s a shooter, there’s a shooter, there’s a shooter,’” Glickman told the Associated Press. Hundreds of paradegoers – some visibly bloodied – fled the parade route, leaving behind chairs, baby strollers and blankets.ĭebbie Glickman, a Highland Park resident, said she was on a parade float with co-workers and the group was prepared to turn on to the main route when she saw people running away from the area.Ĭhris O’Neil, the Highland Park police commander, speaks to the media after the shooting.
The parade was suddenly halted 10 minutes after it started after shots were fired. So it couldn’t have been just a handgun or a shotgun.” Miles Zaremski, a Highland Park resident, told the Chicago Sun-Times: “I heard 20 to 25 shots, which were in rapid succession. “On a day that we came together to celebrate community and freedom we are instead mourning a tragic loss of life and struggling with the terror that was brought upon us,” Rotering added. Highland Park’s mayor, Nancy Rotering, said the community had been “shaken to its core”. Residents were urged to shelter in place.
Swat teams were going to door to door in their search for the attacker, who should be considered armed and dangerous. Highland Park law enforcement officials described the alleged gunman as a white male with long black hair, a small build and wearing a white or blue T-shirt. Parade-goers fled Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade after shots were fired, leaving behind their belongings as they sought safety.
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