The suburb of Highland Park has a population of about 30,000 people and has a per capita income of about $90,000, nearly triple the US average, according to US Census data. Jose Alamar, an employee at a nearby gas station, said about 20 people ran into the gas station and took shelter after the shooting started. And, you know, we, we were hiding behind cars, folding into the next car and making our way.” “The police started reacting, and I saw some people falling,” Leon said. Jeff Leon, 57, told CNN the shots sounded like “firecrackers in a garbage can,” and it wasn’t until he saw police officers reacting, that he knew anything had happened. There were a lot of cars moving, so I helped to direct traffic for a bit.” “So I stopped and offered them to use my phone.
As I was going around, I came across a group of young kids who were trying to call their parents to say they were OK,” he said. Brad Schneider, a Democrat who represents the area, told CNN he was just arriving in Highland Park when the shots were fired and he was told to detour.
“People were hiding, kids were on the streets looking for their parents, just in a state of shock,” he said. People began yelling “shooter” and “run” and he and his family fled toward their car for safety. Warren Fried, who attended the parade with his wife and 7-year-old twins, said he watched the police and ambulance pass by him at the parade and afterward heard an array of gunshots. Aerial video from CNN affiliate WLS shows abandoned lawn chairs up and down the parade route amid a heavy police presence. Video taken by a witness, Hugo Aguilera, shows an ambulance turning around on the parade route and a police car with sirens on, as people gathered on the grassy sidewalk. He told CNN he saw a number of people bloodied and on the ground and described the scene as chaotic. CT, shortly after the start of the parade. Miles Zaremski said he heard what he believed to be about 20 to 30 gunshots, in two consecutive spurts of gunfire, at about 10:20 a.m. Witnesses at the scene who spoke to CNN described a peaceful parade pierced by the sudden ring of gunfire and ensuing chaos. In the wake of those massacres, President Joe Biden just nine days ago signed into law the first major federal gun safety legislation in decades, marking a significant bipartisan breakthrough on one of the most contentious policy issues in Washington. The carnage punctuates an already bloody American spring and summer, including an 18-year-old’s racist attack at a New York supermarket that killed 10 and another 18-year-old’s shooting at a Texas school that left 19 students and two teachers dead. There have been 11 mass shootings in the first four days of July, including three on July 4 alone, in Richmond, Virginia Chicago and Highland Park, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The organization defines a mass shooting as involving four or more people shot, not including the shooter. The incident marks at least the 308th mass shooting in the US this year, according to data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit tracking such incidents. “It looked like a battle zone, and it’s disgusting.
She saw one person who had been shot in the ear and had blood all over his face and another girl who was shot in the leg, she said. They hid behind a dumpster for about an hour until police moved them into a sporting goods store and then eventually escorted them back to their car, she said. “I looked back probably 20 feet away from me. All of a sudden everyone behind us started running,” she said. Zoe Pawelczak, who attended the Independence Day parade with her father, said parade-goers initially thought the array of pops were fireworks given the occasion. Heavily armed officers patrolled the streets of Highland Park on Monday afternoon, and others were positioned on rooftops with sniper rifles. The shooting caused hundreds of parade attendees to flee and triggered a large police response of local, state and federal officers, including the FBI. There were gunshot wounds to extremities as well as more central parts of bodies, he added. He said 19 of the 25 gunshot victims were treated and have been discharged. The patients ranged in age from 8 years old to 85 years old - four or five were children, according to Temple. Brigham Temple, the medical director of the NorthShore University Health System. Highland Park Fire Chief Joe Schrage said his department transported 23 people to hospitals and other victims were taken in police cars or bystanders’ personal vehicles.Ī total of 26 patients were received at Highland Park Hospital, according to Dr.
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