Highland Park Shooting: Bobby Crime III Accused Of Seven Counts Of First-Degree Murder

Robert “Bobby” Crime III, the alleged shooter who killed several people during the July 4th parade in Highland Park on Monday, was given the order to remain in custody on Wednesday.

The crime must be detained without bail, according to the prosecution, because a conviction would result in a mandatory life sentence.

A Lake County judge made a decision. He was imprisoned without bail because the crime posed a “specific and present threat” to the public.

Seven counts of first-degree murder have been brought against Crimo, one for each of the seven victims in what Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart has called a “premeditated and calculated attack.” In the shooting, at least 38 persons suffered injuries.

Six people from Highland Park—64-year-old Katherine Goldstein, 35-year-old Irina McCarthy, 37-year-old Kevin McCarthy, 63-year-old Jacquelyn Sundheim, 88-year-old Stephen Straus, 78-year-old Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, of Morelos, Mexico, and 69-year-old Eduardo Uvaldo from Waukegan—were also killed in the attack.

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Prosecutors claimed that at Crimo’s bond hearing on Wednesday morning, he had admitted to the gunshots following his arrest on Monday night. He allegedly also acknowledged donning women’s attire and concealing his facial tattoos with cosmetics to avoid being identified, as reported by CBS news.

According to the Highland Park Police, Robert E. Crimo III disguised himself as a woman to help him flee following the Fourth of July parade shooting.

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Ben Dillon, an assistant state’s attorney for Lake County, claimed that surveillance footage from the shooting showed Crimo climbing a fire escape ladder to the roof of a building at the northwest corner of Central Avenue and 2nd Street in Highland Park before fleeing down an alley behind that building after the shootings, where he dropped the gun he had used in the shootings.