He said he ran with several other people to a nearby BP gas station and described the scene as “surreal.” who lives about two blocks from the shooting scene, thought at first the gunfire was a car backfiring. “It shouldn’t happen anywhere.”ĭon Johnson, 76.
He found his partner and stepdaughter, safe, inside a McDonald’s nearby. “I saw a little boy who was shot being carried away,” Sandoval said. Then, he said he ran in search of the rest of his family and saw bodies in pools of blood on the ground. So I kept running and ran into an alley and put my son in a garbage dumpster so he could be safe.” “I grabbed my son and tried to break into one of the local buildings, but I couldn’t,” Sandoval said. He said that, in the chaos, he and his partner Amairani Garcia ran in different directions, he with his 5-year-old son, Alex, she with her 6-year-old daughter, Melani. The “vast majority” were treated for gunshot wounds, though some “sustained injuries as a result of the ensuing chaos at the parade,” according to NorthShore University Health Systems, which owns the Highland Park and Evanston hospitals. Also killed was Jacki Sundheim, according to North Shore Congregation Israel, where she worked as a teacher.ĭozens of the injured were taken to Highland Park Hospital, Lake Forest Hospital and Evanston Hospital. All of the victims have been identified, she said.Īmong them was Nicolas Toledo, a grandfather visiting family in Highland Park. It wasn’t clear how old the sixth victim was. Lake County Coroner Jennifer Banek said five people were dead at the scene, all adults, and another died at a hospital. PHOTOS: Highland Park officials and residents react to mass shooting at Fourth of July parade.Lynn Sweet: I was at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade.Here’s where families can get help coping after a mass shooting.Highland Park suspect confessed to July 4 massacre, drove to Wisconsin but opted not to open fire there, prosecutors say.Illinois State Police director defends decision to give suspected Highland Park killer a gun permit in 2020.Highland Park residents grieve together, ponder the future: ‘We’re gonna be looking over our shoulders forever’.Father killed in Highland Park Fourth of July massacre died shielding his 2 ½-year-old son.Highland Park parade shooting left Cooper Roberts, 8, with severed spinal cord.The lives lost in Highland Park July 4 parade mass shooting.
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