Robert Crimo III wanted to repeat the massacre with another rifle during his flight through neighboring states
Everyone walked out. The musicians with the trombone dangling, the mothers pulling their children, and the adults without the chairs they’d laboriously set up the night before. Even the killer dropped the gun and ran. He went to his mother’s house dressed as a woman, covered his tattoos with heavy makeup so he wouldn’t be recognized by his tattoos, and fled in the family car. Only the elderly who could not run and the children who lost their parents were left behind.
Like Aiden, a gold-curled 2-year-old who found someone alone on the street long after those hiding in doorways and garages came out of hiding and turned Highland Park’s (Illiois) Central Avenue into a war zone. Amid bloody corpses and horribly injured, surrounded by abandoned streamers and Fourth of July confetti, he was initially thought to have lost his parents in the chaos that followed the shooting.
“Are mom and dad coming back soon?” he asked his grandfather when it was delivered to him. Michael Levberg, 65, had no response. Both parents were killed in the shooting. Legend has it that the boy was initially trapped under the corpse of the father, who tried to protect him with his body, but there are too many stories to believe one. The only thing that is certain is that Kevin and Irina Levberg, 37, are among the seven killed in the shooting that spilled the July 4 parade in this affluent city north of Chicago.
It’s not the only one who planned to bathe the alleged murderer Robert Crimo III in blood. With the second automatic rifle he legally bought with his father’s help, and the 60 bullets he left behind after unloading 83 bullets on Central Avenue, he thought of repeating the audacity in Madison, Wisconsin, where he got another party as he ran away, but as he hadn’t planned it properly, he decided to wait. He had been planning the Highland Park massacre for weeks because he was obsessed with the numbers 7 and 4, which correspond to the 4th of July. In a deadlock of doubt, the police arrested him.
Crimo has confessed to all this, according to Illinois District Attorney Eric Rinehart, and is threatening to spend the rest of his days in jail. Since this state is one of the countries with the most gun laws, it’s frustrating to know that the 21-year-old can buy two semi-automatic rifles even after police confiscated his collection of knives, daggers and swords in 2019, after a relative’s complaint that he threatened to “kill them all”. The young apprentice rapper had also previously attempted suicide and had already posted a collection of violent videos on the networks anticipating his plans. “We should ban the sale of assault rifles,” asked the prosecutor, who is considering suing the young man’s parents for helping him.
Source: La Verdad
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