The Chicago suburb of Highland Park had planned for a Fourth of July celebration like so many in communities across the United States: a parade followed by fireworks and music.
But the festivities to mark U.S. Independence Day turned into bloody mayhem as a gunman on a rooftop opened fire on families at the parade on Monday, killing six and wounding more than 36.Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSara Hainsfurther, a 36-year-old native of Highland Park who was at the parade with her family, said she had attended almost every year since she was a child.
"My mom said 'wow, those are really loud,' and I looked to see if they were muskets, because you know sometimes they’ll use those old guns in the fourth of July parade. ... The popping didn’t stop though, again it went ‘pop, pop, pop, pop, pop’ and I turned and I said ‘those are gun shots, run'." "It was pandemonium. A stampede. Babies were flying in the air. People were diving for cover," he said as he watched police work the scene. "People were covered in blood tripping over each other."
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