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Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rottering told NBC’s “Today Show” that weapons suspect Robert Cremo III was used Fatal Fourth of July Parade Shooting was “legally obtained” – and now the US needs to re-examine gun laws in the aftermath.
Illinois Mayor She said she was waiting Tuesday for prosecutors to file charges against the 22-year-old accused of killing at least six and injuring more than 30 in yesterday’s attack.
“This tragedy should never have come to our doorstep and as a small town, everyone knows someone who was directly affected by it,” Rottering said.
The mayor stated that he was the Cub Scout leader of Cremo III as a child, describing him as “just a little boy”.
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Robert E. Cremo, 22, has been identified as a suspect in the July 4 parade attack in Highland Park, Illinois, in which at least six people were killed. He was taken into police custody a few hours after the firing.
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“It’s one of those things where you step back and you say ‘What happened?'” Rottering said. “How did someone get so angry, so disgusting, then to take it out on innocent people?”
Rottering told the “Today Show” that he did not know where the gun used in the attack came from, but noted that it was “legally obtained.”
“I think at some point the nation needs to have a conversation about these weekly incidents involving the killing of dozens of people. legally obtained guns“The rotoring continued. If that’s what our laws mean, then I think we need to re-examine the laws.”
Law enforcement search after a mass shooting at the Highland Park of July Parade in Downtown Highland Park, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, Monday, July 4.
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Rottering also called the shooting an “absolutely devastating blow” to his community.
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A police officer reacts as he walks through Highland Park, a Chicago suburb, on Monday, July 4.
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“I’d like to focus on why we as a nation allow this to happen with such regularity? Why do we say, ‘Oh well, that was’? I can’t tell you how many mayors I’ve had since yesterday. Heard, mayors say I’m clearly aware of their own tragedies,” she said.
“It’s incredible to me that this is an accepted part of who we are as a nation,” Rottering also said.