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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #100 on: July 05, 2022, 08:45:42 PM »
I saw something that said he left a tripod-mounted firearm behind? Any corroboration?
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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #101 on: July 05, 2022, 08:49:02 PM »
I saw something that said he left a tripod-mounted firearm behind? Any corroboration?

I heard that but in a press conferences they said the rifle was found wrapped in a red blanket behind Ross's (store/shop)
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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #102 on: July 05, 2022, 10:15:35 PM »
So I figure someone didn't have their story straight....
 
Did anyone else read John D. McDonald's Grim Reaper? It described a group of "commie hippies" back around 1970 or so, that their handlers trained to spray and pray... Sounds like more than a few "mass shooters."
 
Because... Gee, if I had been doing something like that? Or Vegas? Or...
 
I WOULD NEVER DO THAT - THIS IS ONLY A MENTAL EXERCISE INTO THE TACTICS OF THE ACTUAL PERPETRATORS!!!!!!
 
Damn, they didn't do it all that well... It's like they never even heard of the concept of the L-shaped ambush, much less grazing fire.
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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #103 on: July 05, 2022, 10:22:26 PM »
Anyone else wondering how they named him as a suspect so soon afterwards if he was disguised?
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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #104 on: July 05, 2022, 11:08:43 PM »
Anyone else wondering how they named him as a suspect so soon afterwards if he was disguised?

They already said it was a social media search.
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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #105 on: July 06, 2022, 08:26:18 AM »
They already said it was a social media search.

The speed with which they did so is almost enough to make me think they had a few ideas on who to look for.
I would be willing to bet at this point his pass troubles put him toward the top of certain lists while SOMEHOW failing to disqualifying him for a FOID card at the same time.
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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #106 on: July 06, 2022, 08:37:10 AM »
His father co-signed his FOID card in 2019 despite knowing the kid had serious issues
Some question just how much effect, if any, this possibly had in over riding FOID red flags

How the Highland Park Shooter Reportedly Obtained His Guns Is Beyond Ridiculous
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/07/06/how-the-highland-park-shooter-got-his-gun-n2609795

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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #107 on: July 06, 2022, 09:07:07 AM »
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Vice President Kamala Harris just spoke at the scene of the Highland Park mass shooting.

“We have to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are because you have been forced to take this seriously,” she said.
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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #108 on: July 06, 2022, 09:22:00 AM »
What wespon(s) were used?  If LE has made that public, I’ve missed it.
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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #109 on: July 06, 2022, 09:26:25 AM »
What wespon(s) were used?  If LE has made that public, I’ve missed it.

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"Similar to an AR-15" is all we've gotten so far.
Could mean anything from an AR-15 variant to it's black and has a long magazine.

My guess is that they're keeping quiet about it because this way only the shooter would know certain details about it and that can be used against him as evidence.
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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #111 on: July 06, 2022, 10:26:57 AM »
The White House normally has speech writers to help with stuff like that.  Hers must be pretty bad. 

However, this really sounds like she was trying to speak off the cuff and is just bad at it.  I am surprised she didn't break into laughter as she has done in the past.  Maybe people have been working with her to stop doing that. 
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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #112 on: July 06, 2022, 10:30:57 AM »
The White House normally has speech writers to help with stuff like that.  Hers much be pretty bad. 

However, this really sounds like she was trying to speak off the cuff and is just bad at it.  I am surprised she didn't break into laughter as she has done in the past.  Maybe people have been working with her to stop doing that.
She's just following the old adage relating to presentations about telling them three times (tell them what you're going to tell them; tell them; tell them what you told them).  She's just being efficient and doing it in one sentence.

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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #113 on: July 06, 2022, 10:32:21 AM »
The White House normally has speech writers to help with stuff like that.  Hers much be pretty bad.

I have yet to see a single person in this admin that isn't totally incompetent and isn't confused as blank in some way.
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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #114 on: July 06, 2022, 10:57:42 AM »
As much as I hate FOIDs and Red Flag laws somebody dropped the ball hard.
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    Illinois State Police said they received a Clear and Present Danger report in September 2019 about Crimo.

    The report was in connection to a threat he allegedly made against his family. No one, including members of his family, was willing to move forward on a complaint, ISP said.

    No arrests were made at that time.

    At the time of the incident, Crimo did not have a FOID card to revoke, and did not have a pending FOID application to deny, police said.

    Then, in December 2019, at 19, Crimo applied for a FOID card and was sponsored by his father.

    At the time, ISP said there were insufficient basis to establish a clear and present danger and deny the application.
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2022/07/06/how-the-highland-park-suspect-got-guns-legally-despite-threats-of-violence-n60089

Two months after getting a Clear and Present Danger report on Crimo they issue him a FOID
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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #115 on: July 06, 2022, 11:36:35 AM »
He drove to Wisconsin before going back to Il

And on the heels of that info coming out

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Any possibility that Highland Park person drove to Wisconsin after yesterday's atrocity in the knowledge that Kyle Rittenhouse was "acquitted of all charges" after shootings there?
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/07/06/nbc-news-presidential-historian-floats-theory-for-why-highland-park-gunman-had-been-in-wisconsin/

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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #116 on: July 06, 2022, 11:57:50 AM »
According to Richmond police they narrowly avoided their own 4th of July shooting. Suppose to hold a new conference at 14:00

Police received tip of planned Fourth of July mass shooting in Richmond, multiple arrests made
https://www.nbc12.com/2022/07/06/police-received-tip-planned-fourth-july-mass-shooting-richmond-multiple-arrests-made/
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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #117 on: July 06, 2022, 01:12:18 PM »
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/highland-park-shooting-suspect-contemplated-carrying-out-another-attack-in-madison-wisconsin-authorities-say/ar-AAZgZmz

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Covelli said that the suspect considered carrying out a second attack at a "celebration" in Madison but chose to turn around and drive back to the Chicago suburbs instead because he hadn't fully planned an attack.

Covelli said the suspect had planned to use one of the firearms still in his car, including a Kel Tec Sub 200[sic], a Remington 700, a shotgun, and a Glock.

No confirmation on the type of firearm used in the Highland Park murder spree.
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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #119 on: July 06, 2022, 01:31:36 PM »
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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #120 on: July 06, 2022, 02:30:06 PM »
According to Richmond police they narrowly avoided their own 4th of July shooting. Suppose to hold a new conference at 14:00

Police received tip of planned Fourth of July mass shooting in Richmond, multiple arrests made
https://www.nbc12.com/2022/07/06/police-received-tip-planned-fourth-july-mass-shooting-richmond-multiple-arrests-made/

They updated the story

Two "non-citizens" were arrested after a tip for plotting a 4th of July mass shooting at Dogwood Dell.(not sure where or what that is) A-Riles and ammo were seized.

No much else so far.
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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #121 on: July 06, 2022, 02:50:07 PM »
M&P 15

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Crimo used a Smith & Wesson M&P 15 which he bought in 2020, firing 83 rounds in total
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He contemplated a second shooting in Wisconsin at a different parade because he had 60 rounds left 

How they traced the shooting to him so fast
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Police used the serial number on that gun to find Crimo and his family

And perhaps an explanation of the number 47.
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Police do not yet know exactly what his motive for the killing spree was but on Wednesday they confirmed his fixation on the numbers 47 - the inverse of 7/4, the date of July 4th.
 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10987379/Lawyer-Highland-Park-shooters-parents-claims-no-red-flags.html
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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #122 on: July 06, 2022, 02:59:57 PM »
Family is saying there were no police calls to the house

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Meanwhile, his parents' attorney has spoken out in their defense to insist there were 'no red flags' for them to report to police.

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On Tuesday night, he appeared on NewsNation to insist his clients Bob Crimo and Denise Pesina have done nothing wrong, and to deny claims by police that they were called to the family house twice in 2019.

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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #123 on: July 06, 2022, 03:10:27 PM »
NY Post reports the firearm used in Highland Park is a Smith & Wesson M&P15:

https://nypost.com/2022/07/06/highland-park-suspect-robert-crimo-bought-rifle-online-report/
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Re: 4th of July parade shooting
« Reply #124 on: July 06, 2022, 11:03:23 PM »
NY Post reports the firearm used in Highland Park is a Smith & Wesson M&P15:

https://nypost.com/2022/07/06/highland-park-suspect-robert-crimo-bought-rifle-online-report/

Isn't that the model Rittenhouse used?

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