Mass Shootings

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Shooter has been identified.

Six degrees of seperation, I know someone who knows his father and has met him.

His YouTube video.

Anyone know what the triangle/square symbol is?

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Another video

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He's Awake the Rapper.

https://www.awaketherapper.com/

All his social media accounts are suspended.

[Vrede too]

He's Awake the Rapper.

https://www.awaketherapper.com/

All his social media accounts are suspended.

Did a reverse image search, no matches to that symbol. His own design?



He's a White punk from an established family in wealthy Highland Park. What is it about THAT "demographic" that creates these monsters?

He's also an alt-right Trumpette.
https://heavy.com/news/robert-crimo-iii/



I find that heavy.com often has the most info the fastest with these kinds of events. I'm not otherwise a regular reader. Maybe I should be.

They've got a disturbing 1:37 Robert E. Crimo III video that's been deleted from elsewhere, and also an arty/obscure repetitive/boring 4:02 video and a 1:47 rap video, along with shooting and arrest videos.

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No word yet on how he got the gun.

[Vrede too]

That's odd. The family has been there for at least 3 generations, but uncle has an accent . . . or maybe he's autistic? Something is off.

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That's odd. The family has been there for at least 3 generations, but uncle has an accent . . . or maybe he's autistic? Something is off.

Yeah. More to this story.

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This country is in distress.

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Top right picture, I was across the street counter protesting.

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Oh yeah, the shooter lived about a half mile away from me (as the crow flies) on the other side of a golf course.

[Vrede too]

Top right picture, I was across the street counter protesting.

PINO rally? And do you remember the shooter's 'Support the Police' (ironic) blue flag?

Great-Grandpa Sitting in Walker Cut Down by Parade Sniper

Surrounded by a dozen family members, Nicolás Toledo, 78, was sitting on his walker to watch the Highland Park July 4 parade on Monday when the gunshots rang out.

“We all threw ourselves to the ground,” his daughter, Josefina Toledo, told The Daily Beast. “My dad, since it’s difficult for him to walk … he was sitting on his walker and he was hit in his back and in his head.” ...

“There isn’t a safe place anymore,” she said.



Her father lived in a small town in the Morelos state of Mexico before moving to the U.S. with his son to find work in the mid-’80s, and later moved back to his home country to enjoy his golden years.

He came back to Illinois three months ago for an extended visit with his huge extended family in Highland Park....

The Mexican State Department needs to issue warnings for travel to the entire US.

[Whack9]

Saw this online:

America, where we have gun care and health control.

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Saw this online:

America, where we have gun care and health control.

So weird to see John Berman on CNN standing in front of a place I walked three days ago.

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Saw this online:

America, where we have gun care and health control.

Oof, sad but true.

[billy.pilgrim]

He has been advertising online that he would do this.
This may have already been posted, I haven't read all.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/05/us/rober ... index.html

"In one video titled "Are you Awake," a cartoon animation of a stick-figure shooter resembling the suspect's appearance is seen wearing tactical gear and carrying out an attack with a rifle. Crimo, seen with multicolored hair and face tattoos, narrates, "I need to just do it. It is my destiny."'


"Several of the suspect's online postings "reflected a plan and a desire to commit carnage for a long time in advance," Mayor Rotering said in an interview with NBC's Hoda Kotb on "Today."

Where's the FBI?

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[billy.pilgrim]

Did he just do it because he was so funny looking? Awkward, no friends, weird tattoos, an all-round goober.

[Vrede too]

No word yet on how he got the gun.

Highland Park parade mass shooting was planned for weeks, gunman fired over 70 rounds: Police

Authorities believe Monday's mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, had been planned for weeks, and they say more than 70 rounds were fired from the gunman's high-powered rifle....

It appears Crimo bought the high-powered rifle legally in Illinois, police said.

One direction for strengthening IL's gun laws might have been some sort of “proper cause” laws, but SCOTUS just zapped NY's:
viewtopic.php?p=170573#p170573
I think we need mandatory psych evals for all gun ownership as part of establishing “proper cause”, but that idea may be dead now. The necessary info was available:

... Analysts say Crimo appears to have had an extensive online presence that was littered with signs of hatred, mental health issues and a gravitation toward hard-right and neo-fascist ideologies.

It's always the righties.

... He was stopped at U.S. Highway 41 and Westleigh Road in Lake Forest, Illinois, where he surrendered, according to police.

A second weapon, also purchased legally by Crimo, was found in the car, police said....

Representatives of the gun reform group March For Our Lives, founded by survivors of the 2018 high school mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, said in a statement, "Just three weeks ago, young people organized a March For Our Lives in Highland Park, along with communities across the country."

He could have targeted them, instead.

... New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is among the leaders reacting to the nation's latest mass shooting, tweeting, "Not even a parade on the Fourth of July celebrating our nation’s independence is immune from our nation’s gun violence epidemic. Tomorrow, I will sign seven sweeping commonsense gun safety bills into law. We cannot wait." ...

Good for New Jersey . . . unless SCOTUS cancels them.

[Vrede too]

Shooter has been identified.

Six degrees of seperation, I know someone who knows his father and has met him.

His YouTube video.

Anyone know what the triangle/square symbol is?

Dad ran for mayor recently. You may know lots of people that have met dad, if not also the shooter.

Alleged Parade Gunman Disguised Himself in Women’s Clothes, Ran Home to Mommy

... Much of Crimo’s social media presence includes a symbol that roughly resembles one used by Suomen Sisu, a far-right Finnish organization that “seeks to protect Finnish culture [and] traditions.” (Other Finns have described the group as “Nazi-spirited.”) Crimo, however, does not mention Suomen Sisu by name in his postings. He also served as the administrator of a Discord channel called “SS” that has since been taken down....