Six people are dead and dozens injured in a mass shooting at a 4th of July parade in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Highland Park on Monday, authorities said.
Police said the gunman was still on the loose after he randomly opened fire with a rifle from the roof of a building overlooking the parade route shortly after 10 a.m.
The shooter, who police warned is still “armed and dangerous”, is described as a white male with long dark hair and is aged 18 to 20 years. He was wearing a blue or white t-shirt, police said.
One witness told
WGN TV that he saw the shooter as the gunfire erupted, saying “he was very military style, methodical in the way he was crouched and shooting.”
Other witnesses, including some who initially confused the gunshots for fireworks, told the
Chicago Sun Times they counted at least 20 shots being fired.
“I heard 20 to 25 shots, which were in rapid succession. So it couldn’t have been just a handgun or a shotgun,” local resident Miles Zaremski said.
(The shooter started firing just after the parade started.......sometime just after 10 A.M.) He was already on the rooftop.....IF someone has a better chart feel free to post their OWN chart instead of complaining! )