https://www.today.com/news/news/highland-park-mayor-says-cub-scout-leader-for-person-of-interest-rcna36642
Highland Park mayor says she was Cub Scout leader for person of interest in July 4 shooting
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-711208
I felt safer near Gaza than Highland Park -Israeli survivor of shooting
The shooting happened four blocks away from a Chabad center, Chabad News reported Monday night. In a video of the incident, it appears that a klezmer band was playing when the shooter attacked. According to Chabad, the Jewish community is often quite involved with the parade, and it usually has a menorah float.
The shooter was arrested later that evening. To her shock, he is the son of a man whom Deborah has known her entire life.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/chabad-rabbi-says-alleged-july-4-shooter-entered-his-synagogue-on-passover/
Chabad rabbi says alleged July 4 Chicago shooter entered his synagogue
Rabbi Yosef Schanowitz, whose house of worship is near the site of Monday’s shooting in heavily Jewish Highland Park, says Robert Crimo wore a yarmulke but ‘seemed out of place’
He said a man appearing to be Crimo had entered the Central Avenue Synagogue, near the scene of the shooting. The synagogue’s security, which includes off-duty police, kept an eye on him while he was there.
“He entered wearing a yarmulke yet seemed out of place,” Schanowitz said. “A short while later he departed without incident.”
https://forward.com/news/508979/highland-park-shooter-visited-chabad-this-year-synagogue-crimo-july-4/
Security director: Suspect in July 4 Highland Park shooting was ‘sizing up’ synagogue
Suspect visited Chabad synagogue during Passover, according to volunteer
Crimo was wearing all black clothes “in the goth style,” according to Blumenthal, including black gloves.
He was also wearing a knapsack, which Blumenthal, after going over to introduce himself, squeezed to check for weapons. He didn’t feel any.
“He said his name was Bobby and he lived in the neighborhood,” Blumenthal said, adding, “I watched him the whole time.”
After sitting in the sanctuary for about 45 minutes, Crimo, who is 21, left by bike, according to Blumenthal.
>Maxwell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Street_Klezmer_Band
https://www.klezmerband.com/
https://twitter.com/joyofklez
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/07/05/highland-park-parade-shooting-band-witnessed/7806680001/
The band struck up a joyous tune as they traveled in the parade. Then the shooting started.
Howard Prager, 66, and his klezmer band were set up Monday morning in chairs on a slow-moving flatbed truck as they pulled into the lineup for the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois.
There hadn’t been a parade for three years, since before the pandemic. “People were so happy to be out,” he told USA TODAY.
Maxwell Street Klezmer Band launched into an upbeat tune, a song for weddings and celebrations. That’s when they started seeing people running.
At first, Prager thought there must be a celebrity or something in the parade they were running to see.
“Then I saw panic on their faces,” he said. "We saw moms and dads with strollers. We saw adults. We saw young people. And they’re all coming toward us.”
Seven people were killed and dozens more were injured Monday after a gunman fired on the parade around 10 a.m. in the suburb north of Chicago. Residents were warned to shelter in place throughout the day as a search unfolded. Authorities said a person of interest was taken into custody Monday evening.
The shooting turned the family-friendly event into a crime scene, where abandoned lawn chairs, wagons and bikes were scattered along the parade route.
Alexander Sandoval, 39, a contractor, shook as he recounted the scene with his 5-year-old son, his partner and her 6-year-old daughter. He had set up chairs in front of the stage at 7 a.m., three hours before the festivities began.
“When everything started happening, we thought it was the Navy saluting the flag," he told USA TODAY. "Shots rang out. I grabbed my kid and ran."
The parade, part of a daylong celebration, is a community institution in Highland Park, an affluent suburb know for its leafy suburban streets.
The Illinois State Library's digital archives show annual pictures as far back as the mid-1960s of floats towed behind station wagons. In one, the historical society poses. In another, a mobile Iwo Jima statue rolls as an honor guard stands at attention.
The Maxwell Street band has been playing with a growing cast of members since 1983, according to its website. Along with performing at weddings and bar mitzvahs, the band has toured as far as Carnegie Hall and Europe, the site says. The band lists more than 20 members. For the parade setup, Prager said, seven played: violin, trombone, clarinet, trumpet, an electric piano, drums – and Prager on the tuba.
The parade takes a dogleg route, down the street next to the Highland Park's Public Library. At the next block, where the storefronts of Central Avenue begin, the parade turns the corner for its run down Highland Park’s main drag, where the shooting began.
Around 10:15, the band launched into a song Prager's sheet music calls “Freilechs fun der chuppeh” – freilech, Prager said, meaning a joyous person; the chuppeh, or chuppah, the canopy for a Jewish wedding ceremony.
They hadn’t reached the corner of Central Avenue when they saw the people running. “I recognized and heard pops of the gun,” he said, “and thought, oh my gosh, this is something serious.
“You’ve seen these disaster movies and stuff, where people are running. It felt just like that,” he said. “Like we were in the middle of that. People running past us.”
They needed to get out of there, but their truck was boxed in. The driver wasn’t sure where to go. Finally, in an opening in the crowd, they turned around and got back to the starting point, Prager said.
Numb, in shock and not sure what to do next, they did what bands do: They headed to their next gig, in Skokie. But that had been canceled – like so many events nearby.
By evening, Prager was speaking on behalf of his bandmates and thinking about how the shooting had changed the Fourth of July.
"I just want to see something that brings us all together and makes us all whole again," he said. "See this country come back together and realize we all believe in liberty, freedom and peace for all."
>Around 10:15, the band launched into a song Prager's sheet music calls “Freilechs fun der chuppeh” – freilech, Prager said, meaning a joyous person; the chuppeh, or chuppah, the canopy for a Jewish wedding ceremony.
Freilachs Fun Der Chupeh · The Maxwell St. Klezmer Band
>That’s it: from now on, I am PRO-PUTIN.
https://twitter.com/rothschildmd/status/1544894508407459840
Yeah, this one hit close to home. I grew up 20 minutes from Highland Park, my grandfather lived there for 35 years, and I had distant family at the parade who are fine. None of it makes any sense, and our attempts to make it make sense aren't landing.
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1544819801767419905
It appears that the Highland Park shooting suspect has no ideological or political bent. Yet extremism researchers say these acts may actually be part of a troubling new trend. One that involves dark subcultures that glorify violence and foster nihilism.
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/06/1110013040/the-highland-park-suspect-breaks-the-mold-on-violent-extremists
>Highland Park shooting suspect has no ideological or political bent.
I think Nigel is pretty fly, for a white guy.
no ideological or political bent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_in_the_Fist
just a pretty neck tattoo
>DOUGH