highland park parade shooting

The 21-year-old suspect in a mass shooting at Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade, who confessed in detail to the shooting after being arrested in North Chicago nearly four hours after the attack, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday and waived a formal reading of the more than 100 counts against him.

The alleged gunman behind the mass shooting at Highland Park’s Independence Day parade earlier this month has been indicted by a grand jury on 117 counts, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Billy Corgan, a Highland Park resident and the frontman for the Smashing Pumpkins, said the band’s drummer Jimmy Chamberlin will also be part of the concert, along with other special guests.

A funeral service was held Monday afternoon for the last of seven people killed by a gunman at an Independence Day parade, as family and friends gathered in suburban Chicago to remember Kevin McCarthy.

Cooper Roberts, the 8-year-old boy who was paralyzed in the Highland Park Fourth of July parade mass shooting, remains “very critical,” according to his family, after undergoing his seventh surgery.

Survivors of the deadly Fourth of July parade shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, marched on the Capitol on Wednesday, a little more than a week after they dodged bullets. 

Alexandria, Virginia, resident Carrie Drummond spoke with sorrow and fury about fleeing the 2017 Congressional baseball game shooting with her young children as they walked their dog near their home — only to have to escape a second shooting this month.

Survivors of the July 4 parade shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, traveled to D.C. for the March Fourth rally. “We do not want this to happen anywhere, ever again, to anyone. Highland Park needs to be the last devastated community,” Michelle Gerstin said. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

In 2019, the 21-year-old man now charged in the Highland Park parade massacre was too young to apply independently for a gun license in Illinois.

An 8-year-old boy who was hurt in the July Fourth parade shooting on Monday remained hospitalized in critical condition after undergoing several surgeries, his family said Thursday.

After firing more than 70 rounds during Highland Park’s Independence Day parade Monday, killing seven and injuring dozens, the alleged gunman drove to Madison, Wisconsin and “seriously contemplated” another shooting at an area celebration.

Nearly $2 million has been raised so far for a 2-year-old boy whose parents were both killed in Monday’s shooting in Highland Park.

The 21-year-old alleged gunman suspected of firing more than 70 rounds Monday during Highland Park’s Fourth of July Parade is scheduled to appear in bond court Wednesday at 10 a.m., according to authorities.

Emotions, prayer and calls for action against gun violence poured out during a vigil Tuesday night, a day after a gunman opened fire at Highland Park’s Fourth of July Parade killing at least seven and injuring more than 40 others.

After delivering a speech in Chicago, Vice President Kamala Harris visited suburban Highland Park, Illinois, Tuesday evening, officials said.

The 21-year-old arrested in connection with Monday’s shooting will face additional charges in the coming days, Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart said Tuesday.

The suspect in the Highland Park, Illinois, Fourth of July parade mass shooting had two prior contacts with police, including one domestic incident in which a family member reported he said he was “going to kill everyone,” according to officials.

Fourth of July celebrations were interrupted by gun violence in over a dozen communities across the U.S.