Anonymous ID: b5f131 July 9, 2022, 3:35 p.m. No.16700086   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>0096 >>0104 >>0119

Highland Park parade mass murder suspect Robert E. Crimo III through people who knew him, police reports

 

He grew up in a home where his parents regularly called the police on each other, and his mother left him unattended in a car on a hot August day before he was 2.

 

By Frank Main and Elvia MalagĂłn

Jul 9, 2022, 6:00am CDT

 

Growing up in Highland Park, where kids typically are expected to go to college and often beyond, Robert E. Crimo III stood out, according to people who knew him.

 

Crimo, 21, who’s charged with killing seven people and wounding dozens of others in a mass shooting at the suburb’s Fourth of July parade, dropped out of Highland Park High School before his junior year.

 

Then, he vanished from the lives of the kids he’d passed in the hallways of the 2,000-student school.

 

“Seeing him in the halls, I thought he was kind of creepy,” says Ethan Absler, 22, who was a grade ahead of Crimo and recently graduated from the University of Missouri and works for USA Network.

 

“When he left Highland Park High School, he left people’s radar,” Absler says. “The red flags he was posting on social media went unnoticed because he wasn’t connected to many of the people at the school.”

 

Looking back, it’s easy to spot warning signs he was troubled.

 

He bought military-style rifles at a young age and posted videos online of bloody, animated shootings.

 

Performing as Awake the Rapper, he posted music videos with violent, bloody images and one that shows him with a newspaper with a story about President John F. Kennedy’s assassin Lee Harvey Oswald being killed.

 

His appearance also made him stand out. The police said he’s 5-11 and 120 pounds. His videos and photos, including the police mug shot taken after his arrest, show tattoos on his face and neck.

 

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https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/9/23201114/highland-park-parade-mass-shooting-robert-crimo-ethan-absler-denise-pesina-jeremy-cahnmann