Pandemonium erupted during a Fourth of July Parade in the northern Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois Monday morning as gunshots rang out.
Several people were reportedly shot during the chaotic scene, and nearby towns have canceled parades as a caution against similar attacks.
A young boy filming the parade captured the moment the gunshots were heard.
WATCH:
Active shooter in Highland Park, IL. Avoid Central Ave. My nephew recorded this video. pic.twitter.com/nUFRElrVZi
— enrique (@Ri_Kayyy) July 4, 2022
The Chicago Sun-Times reported:
The Highland Park Fourth of July parade ended in panic when shots were fired about 10 minutes after the parade kicked off at 10 a.m. Monday, striking an unknown number of parade-goers and sending hundreds of people running for safety.
Multiple people were shot. A Chicago Sun-Times reporter saw blankets covering three bloodied bodies and five other people wounded and bloodied near the parade’s reviewing stand.
Several witnesses said they heard multiple shots fired. One witness said he counted more than 20 shots.
Miles Zaremski, a Highland Park resident, told the Sun-Times: “I heard 20 to 25 shots, which were in rapid succession. So it couldn’t have been just a handgun or a shotgun.”
Zaremski said that after the shots at Central Avenue around Second Avenue in downtown Highland Park, he saw “people in that area that got shot,” including “a woman covered with blood . . . She did not survive.”
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