After an eight-hour manhunt, police arrested the 22-year-old young man suspected of opening fire, killing six people and injuring 31, at a July 4 parade on the outskirts of Chicago stopped while driving his car in the Lake Forest area north of metropolitan Illinois and immediately taken to the plant for questioning.
For now, all we know is what’s popping up on social media: rappers using the alias Awake, multiple tattoos on their face and neck, a resident of the city where he likely committed his massacre.
In a photo of his Facebook profile, now obscured by many Twitter users but restarted, the young man appears with a helmet and a small camera on his head and his face obscured. Also on his page is a picture of a demonstration by the Patriot Front, a white supremacist organization. The parade in Highland Park had only just begun, about ten minutes, when the killer opened fire on thousands of people enjoying a day of joy and relaxation with family. He shot from the roof of a building, using a rifle that officers later found. “At first I thought it was firecrackers, I didn’t realize it was gunshots,” a witness said. “Then I started seeing damn people screaming and running away. It was awful,” the woman said, still in shock. “It was a chaotic scene. I tried calling my family and found they had taken refuge in a building near the trail,” said another witness who drove to the parade when the shooting began and said he had People flee from one side look to the other. “It was scary, I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. People were scared and covered in blood,” said a third witness. Images circulating on the websites and social media showed overturned chairs, abandoned strollers, thermos flasks and coolers thrown on the pavement alongside the blood of those injured or killed. Scenes of panic and horror from families who were celebrating with their loved ones just moments before. Joe Biden and his wife Jill said they were “shocked” by another episode of “senseless violence”. During the Independence Day celebrations in the White House, the American President asked for a minute’s silence for the victims and assured that the fight against guns would continue.
Philadelphia shoots, it’s a manhunt – There is a manhunt in Philadelphia after someone opened fire on participants in the July 4th parade just hours after the massacre at the American Independence Party on the outskirts of Chicago. At the moment the toll is on two injured police officers. Videos are circulating on Twitter in which gunshots are heard and the crowd disperses while the fireworks continue in the background.