Taking pictures at Independence Day parade in US (VIDEO) — RT World Information
No less than six individuals have been killed throughout a Fourth of July occasion in Highland Park, Illinois
Six individuals have been killed and a minimum of 24 extra wounded in a taking pictures at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, the native media reported on Monday, citing authorities.
The taking pictures came about about 10 minutes after the parade started at 10am native time within the Chicago suburb. Police urged individuals to disperse and had been seen patrolling the world with rifles seeking the shooter.
A video has surfaced on-line exhibiting individuals operating in panic as they hear photographs being fired in the course of the celebrations.
Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering tweeted that the city’s Fourth Fest had been canceled and requested residents to keep away from the downtown space.
Highland Park Police are responding to an incident in downtown Highland Park. Fourth Fest has been canceled. Please keep away from downtown Highland Park. Extra data will likely be shared because it turns into obtainable.
— Nancy Rotering (@NancyRotering) July 4, 2022
Sources cited in native media claimed the shooter could have been firing from atop a excessive constructing.
A number of neighboring communities, together with Deerfield, Evanston, and Skokie, have canceled their Fourth of July occasions “out of an abundance of warning.”
Illinois congressman Brad Schneider, a Democrat, tweeted that he had been in the beginning of the parade route when the taking pictures broke out.
“Listening to of lack of life and others injured,” he stated in a tweet.
The photographs had been fired round Central Avenue and Second Avenue alongside the parade route in downtown Highland Park, an prosperous suburb north of Chicago. Whereas its city neighbor is notorious for top ranges of gun violence, Highland Park itself is mostly seen as remarkably protected, with violent crime charges 75% decrease than the nationwide common.
