Guardianship battle escalates over Highland Park boy orphaned after parents were killed in parade shooting
A chalk message left below a portrait of Irina and Kevin McCarthy, who attended the parade with their 2-year-old son, Aiden, reads"He will be OK" at a memorial near the Central Avenue scene where they died, July 7, 2022, three days after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
Aiden’s maternal grandfather, Michael Levberg, also helps take care of Aiden, and has asked to be co-guardian with his wife. The maternal grandparents also have made claims on the estate of Kevin McCarthy, Aiden’s father, of which Kevin’s mother is the administrator. Irina and Kevin McCarthy are depicted along with the other five victims at a memorial near the Central Avenue site, July 7, 2022, three days after the mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
In another sign of tensions between the grandparents, last year, the maternal grandparents had called the police to file a missing-person report while Aiden was at a family pool party. Police went to Aiden’s home, but no charges were filed.
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