WAUKEGAN, Ill. — The man accused of killing seven people and wounding dozens more in a shooting at an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, a week after prosecutors announced he faces 117 felony counts in the attack. Robert E. Crimo III appeared for a brief hearing Wednesday in Lake County’s circuit court to enter …
CHICAGO — In 2019, Robert E. Crimo III was too young to apply independently for a gun license in Illinois. but performed some action to allow that robbery to go forward.” Katherine Schweit, retired FBI agent who developed the agency’s active shooter program, agreed that prosecutors’ challenge is showing a strong connection to the crime — “where they could have …
CHICAGO — 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. One focus is on the state’s so-called red-flag law, which enables parents, roommates and police to ask courts to seize guns from people …
