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The Daily BeastLook at My Face and Tell Me We Don’t Need Gun Control
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Courtesy of Lilli MartiniThis story contains graphic imagesI’d been to the July 4 parade in Highland Park so many times. This time, I went with my cousin and her boyfriend, plus another 5-year-old cousin and her grandmother. We walked in the pets and children’s march that comes right before the main parade and then rushed to our seats in front of Walker Bros. pancake house to take it all in—like I had done almost every year of my life.The ambulances and poli
- INSIDER
Highland Park mayor: People said they could tell by looking at mass shooting victims which were unlikely to survive based on 'unbelievable violence' they endured
Seven people have died as a result of the mass shooting that occurred in Highland Park, Illinois, on Monday. Dozens more are injured.
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Suspected parade gunman traveled to Wisconsin after shooting and Milwaukee's chances of hosting RNC may have improved
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- CBS-Chicago
Highland Park mass shooting suspect's mother at center of some police contact
The mother of the suspect in Monday’s deadly mass shooting in Highland Park has been at the center of some police contact for hours on Tuesday, as well as with a SWAT team in the hours after the shooting.
- INSIDER
Justice Clarence Thomas once opposed Highland Park's assault weapons ban, saying that the 'overwhelming majority' of those with the rifles use them lawfully
Thomas called the city's ban "highly suspect because it broadly prohibits common semiautomatic firearms used for lawful purposes."
- The Daily Beast
Couple Slain in Parade Nightmare in Front of Their Toddler
GoFundMeA married couple in their 30s whose toddler is now terrifyingly alone. A preschool teacher. A great-grandfather visiting from Mexico. A financial adviser who rode the train daily. These are some of the lives that were snuffed out by the gunman who opened fire on the Highland Park Fourth of July parade on Monday. A little over a day after the killing stopped, officials released the names of all but one fatal victim of the latest mass shooting nightmare in America. They identified the dece
- INSIDER
Highland Park parade-goer mistook gunshots for fireworks until a 13-year-old who had done active shooter drills realized what was happening and hit the ground 'sobbing'
The Highland Park shooting witness told CNN he "stood for another like couple of seconds in disbelief because I didn't see the carnage."
- NextShark
Tearful WWII vet says on his 100th birthday that current state of America is 'not what they died for'
A U.S. veteran who saw action in World War II lamented the current state of the country while celebrating his 100th birthday. Carl Spurlin Dekel, who spent his special day on June 29 with friends and family, broke down in tears as he told Fox13 in an interview shared the day after that his fellow soldiers did not die in the war for what America has now purportedly become.
- The Daily Beast
Tucker Finds a Way to Blame Women for Young Male Mass Shootings
Fox NewsOn the heels of yet another mass shooting, Tucker Carlson identified what he believes to be one contributing factor in young men using firearms on innocent bystanders: women “lecturing” them about “their so-called privilege.”Carlson opened his Tuesday show discussing the shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, allegedly by 21-year-old Robert “Bobby” Crimo. The Fox News host mentioned how authorities said Crimo had appeared on their radar twice before: in April 201
- CBS News
One family's wrenching decision to sell a girl into marriage for food
"I know I'm young," Nyekuoth Manyuan told CBS News. "But the food's been taken away, and I want my family to survive."
- The Daily Beast
She Went Out for Pancakes—and Rescued Blood-Smeared Toddler at Highland Park Parade
Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune via Getty Lauren Silva, a mother of two from Deerfield, Illinois, set out Monday morning to have a quiet breakfast with her boyfriend in Highland Park. She ended up caring for the toddler of a parade-shooting victim still covered in his father’s blood.Silva, 38, told The Daily Beast she woke up craving banana pancakes at Walker Bros., a breakfast spot on a corner of the day’s July 4 parade route.The former event planner and her boyfriend parked in a nearby garage an
- WPXI
Police searching for 2 suspects involved in attack at Washington County Days Inn
Police are searching for two suspects they said were involved in an attack at a Days Inn hotel in Washington County.
- Akron Beacon Journal
Apparent long-distance shot across Summit Lake hits woman in head inside her home
A 25-year-old woman was shot in the head through the front window of her Summit Lake home, the Akron Police Department said Tuesday.
- Idaho Statesman
Climbers with no gear get stuck on Colorado rock slab when the surface gets too hot
The two men were free soloing the popular Colorado climbing spot.
- CBS-Losangeles
Woman arrested for attack on South LA street vendor over weekend
Authorities arrested India Duerson, a 30-year-old woman, who was wanted in connection with an attack on a local taco vendor in South Los Angeles over the weekend.
- The Root
White Supremacists Marched Through Downtown Boston Last Weekend
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu was scheduled to meet with law enforcement this morning after an organized group of as many as 100 masked white supremacists marched through the city’s downtown on Saturday, assaulting a Black man along the way.
- Women's Health
'Girl In The Picture's Franklin Floyd Eventually Married The Girl He Kidnapped
Netflix's 'Girl in the Picture', unravels the mystery of Franklin Floyd, who went by the aliases Clarence Hughes and Warren Marshall, and unpacks his crimes.
- WGN - Chicago
Illinois shooting suspect was ‘known to law enforcement’
The 22-year-old man is accused of opening fire at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park on Monday, killing six people and injuring dozens of others. He has posted online videos prolifically, many that foretold violence and one that appeared to dramatize a school shooting.
- The Guardian
Texas death row inmate asks to delay execution so he can donate kidney
Lawyers for Ramiro Gonzales, who is set to die by lethal injection on 13 July, requested 30-day reprieve so he can provide donation
- Kansas City Star
Woman’s assault sparks huge bar fight, leaving man with eye ‘hanging out,’ Ohio cops say
Fights broke out inside and outside of the bar, police said.