As we know from the mistakes made with Parkland, law enforcement is far from perfect. But the possibility of this happening is still deeply concerning. He added: “Luckily there’s a lot of stuff that gets prevented sometimes literally right before it happens that the public never knows about. The gun control activist said that his “greatest fear” is that “these radicalized young men stop acting on their own and start collaborating through groups like the National socialist movement” and possibly the Proud Boys to conduct “a mass terror attack”. “They have been radicalized online and by cable news into believing there is a literal ‘white genocide’ in our country.” “So far they have acted on their own but there are many of them and they are heavily armed and want the same thing – a male-dominated, white ethnostate,” Mr Hogg said. Highland Park Police, ReutersAfter a daylong manhunt, Illinois police have taken in the person of interest wanted in connection with a sniper attack at a July 4 parade in Highland Park that killed six people and sent dozens more to the hospital.Authorities have not said 22-year-old Robert Bobby Crimo III is the suspected gunman, but before he was taken into custody, they said he. “I do not think near enough Republicans, Democrats or law enforcement realize how close we could be to a coordinated mass terrorist attack in the United States by these young, heavily armed white nationalists,” he added. Authorities have not yet identified a motive.ĭavid Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 Parkland school shooting in Florida and founder of the gun control advocacy group March for Our Lives, tweeted on Wednesday that he’s “deeply worried we could be on the edge of something far worse happening than we’ve already seen. The shooting sent hundreds of people fleeing in fear and set off an hours-long manhunt. Robert Crimo was charged with seven counts of murder on Tuesday. The announcement came just two days after a gunman opened fire from a rooftop on a July 4 parade in the affluent Chicago suburb of Highland Park, killing seven people and injuring more than three dozen. The police leader said that the suspects are being held in Richmond City Jail without bond. “A hero citizen picked up the phone and called our brave men and women at the second precinct,” Chief Smith said, adding that other agencies, such as Homeland Security and the FBI, aided the investigation. They have been charged with possessing a firearm as a non-US citizen.
The suspects have been identified as Julio Alvardo-Dubon, 52, and Rolman Balacarcel, 38. “No community is immune” from mass shootings, he added.Ĭhief Smith said that The Diamond was another possible target.
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