On Tuesday it was revealed that Robert Crimo III, the prime suspect of the Highland Park parade shooting that occurred on July Fourth, was known to police and had run-ins with them previously, but had never been arrested.
Crimo allegedly shot into a crowd of people at a parade in Illinois, killing seven and injuring over two dozen, while dressed in drag. The information of his former run-ins with police was revealed by Lake County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Christopher Covelli.
“I’m going to relay some information from two prior instances that occurred here in Highland Park,” Covelli said. “The first was in April of 2019. An individual contacted Highland Park Police Department a week after learning of Crimo attempting suicide. This was a delayed report, so Highland Park still responded to the residence a week later, spoke with Crimo, spoke with Crimo’s parents, and the matter was being handled by mental health professionals at that time, there was no law enforcement action to be taken. It was a mental health issue and handled by those professionals.”
“The second occurred in September of 2019,” Covelli continued. “A family member reported that Crimo said he was going to kill everyone and that he had a collection of knives. The police responded to Crimo’s residence, the police removed 16 knives, a dagger, and a sword from Crimo’s home. At that time, there was no probable cause to arrest, there were no complaints that were signed by any of the victims. The Highland Park Police Department, however, did immediately notify the Illinois State Police of the incident.”
Crimo’s neighbors told Fox News that, “the signs were there for a long time. There were always police cars at the house. The parents were arguing, fighting all the time.”
Jeremy Cahnmann, who ran an after-school program that Crimo attended, claimed that he and his brother were often “the last kids there, and we’d have to call their parents to pick them up.”
“I remember the parents more than him because they were kind of a problem. There wasn’t a lot of love in that family,” Cahnmann continued. “[Crimo’s mother] got into it once with one of the heads of the program, she was yelling,” he recalled. “It seemed like her kids were a nuisance to her.”
Crimo had also posted a music video in 2021, under the stage name “Awake the Rapper.” In it, a heavily armed stick figure wearing tactical gear was depicted carrying out an attack and being shot by police. The video has since been taken down.
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