Highland Park

The 21-year-old suspect in a mass shooting at Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade, who confessed in detail to the shooting after being arrested in North Chicago nearly four hours after the attack, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday and waived a formal reading of the more than 100 counts against him.

The alleged gunman behind the mass shooting at Highland Park’s Independence Day parade earlier this month has been indicted by a grand jury on 117 counts, prosecutors said Wednesday.

A funeral service was held Monday afternoon for the last of seven people killed by a gunman at an Independence Day parade, as family and friends gathered in suburban Chicago to remember Kevin McCarthy.

In 2019, the 21-year-old man now charged in the Highland Park parade massacre was too young to apply independently for a gun license in Illinois.

An 8-year-old boy who was hurt in the July Fourth parade shooting on Monday remained hospitalized in critical condition after undergoing several surgeries, his family said Thursday.

Days after a rooftop gunman killed seven people at a parade, attention has turned to how the assailant obtained multiple guns and whether the laws on Illinois books could have prevented the Independence Day massacre.

After firing more than 70 rounds during Highland Park’s Independence Day parade Monday, killing seven and injuring dozens, the alleged gunman drove to Madison, Wisconsin and “seriously contemplated” another shooting at an area celebration.

Nearly $2 million has been raised so far for a 2-year-old boy whose parents were both killed in Monday’s shooting in Highland Park.

The 21-year-old alleged gunman suspected of firing more than 70 rounds Monday during Highland Park’s Fourth of July Parade is scheduled to appear in bond court Wednesday at 10 a.m., according to authorities.

Emotions, prayer and calls for action against gun violence poured out during a vigil Tuesday night, a day after a gunman opened fire at Highland Park’s Fourth of July Parade killing at least seven and injuring more than 40 others.

After delivering a speech in Chicago, Vice President Kamala Harris visited suburban Highland Park, Illinois, Tuesday evening, officials said.

A 21-year-old arrested in connection with a mass shooting at a Highland Park Fourth of July parade has been charged with murder, authorities announced Tuesday.

The suspect in the Highland Park, Illinois, Fourth of July parade mass shooting had two prior contacts with police, including one domestic incident in which a family member reported he said he was “going to kill everyone,” according to officials.

The suspected gunman accused of opening fire from a rooftop into a crowded Fourth of July parade in Highland Park purchased two rifles legally, prior to the mass shooting, authorities said Tuesday.

Police released new details Tuesday on how a mass shooting at the Highland Park Independence Day Parade unfolded, saying the suspected gunman had been planning the attack “for several weeks” and dressed as a woman to help flee the scene.

“He was just a little boy,” Mayor Nancy Rotering told TODAY.

The number of people killed in the mass shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade Monday has risen to seven and the number of people injured has climbed to 47, officials said, as details have started to emerge about those who lost their lives in the tragedy.

Details are beginning to emerge about the victims killed and wounded in the mass shooting at the Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois on Monday.

Video appears to show the moment the person of interest connected to the mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park was arrested Monday evening.

Authorities have identified 22-year-old Robert E. Crimo III as a person of interest in the Highland Park, Ill., shooting that killed at least 6.