At least six people were killed, at least 30 were injured, and hundreds of marchers, parents pushing strollers, and kids riding bikes fled in fear as a shooter on a rooftop opened fire on an Independence Day parade in a suburban Chicago neighborhood on Monday, according to police.
Following an hours-long manhunt in and around Highland Park, an affluent neighborhood of approximately 30,000 people on Chicago’s north shore, authorities said a man identified as a person of interest in the shooting was brought into police custody Monday evening.
The shooting on July 4 was only the most recent to disrupt American culture’s traditions. In recent months, a number of places have turned into killing fields, including schools, churches, supermarkets, and even local parades.
At a press conference, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker said: “It is tragic that a celebration of America was torn apart by our distinctively American plague.
“I’m angry because it doesn’t have to be this way… mass shootings have turned into a weekly — yes, weekly — American habit, whereas we only celebrate the Fourth of July once a year.” (Curtesy France 24)
