local law enforcement that we expect to come within the next couple hours here. you see behind me the scene still feels very frozen. you see investigators working through, combing through that scene, we re about a block away from where the shooting took place. you also still see the chairs. you see the blankets, you see the decorations for the fourth of july holiday as people came out here to celebrate the day and to watch that parade before those shots rang out. you heard a little bit from the mayor there before who mentioned that the gun, based on the information she has, was obtained legally. i want you to listen to a little more of what she said on the today show this morning about how she knows the shooter and what she knows about that suspected shooter who currently called a person of interest. i don t believe he was previously known to police until yesterday. i know him as somebody who was a cub scout when i was the cub
help. take a listen. there was another little boy who maybe was 7, and he was by himself and another little boy of about the same age came over to him and said what s your name. his name is blake. that little boy said blake, run, come with me. the little boy s family took blake and they ran. reporter: the lake county coroner s office says they will be releasing names of the victims at some point today or early tomorrow morning. nbc news has been able to confirm some of the victims, one of them being nicholas toledo. he s 76 years old. he recently moved from mexico to the highland park area at the urging of his family members who wanted a better life for him. he had some mobility issues. according to the new york times he was in a wheelchair when he was watching the parade when the barrage of bullets came
foreign terrorist organizations. obviously a number of concerning posts. it would be interesting to know if anybody ever called law enforcement before and if not, why not. jim, let s talk about the law enforcement response. obviously police were there because it was a parade. i assume they were not in tactical gear, how do you deal with a sniper? what was the response as far as you can tell? well, it looked pretty good from what i could tell. the bicycle officers were moving around pretty quick on the ground trying to locate the shooter. this often happens when shots ring out. you don t know where the shots are coming from. when you re in a situation on a city street like that with two and three-story buildings, you re going to get echoes. when you watch the video, you ll hear the echoes. the officers quickly locate the shooter and start moving toward the building. of course, he escapes. as tom said, he dropped the rifle and escaped. he leaves it at the scene which is huge evidence
i saw a sea of people running towards me. clearly something was wrong. i asked one person was going on. they said a sheert and ran into an underground concrete garage. i got a sense that something horrible was surprising part o reason was there are so many law enforcement people here just to helpfully patrol the parade, and we had a lot of personnel from the highland park fire department here as with any fourth of july parades, you bring out the fire engines and run the sirens in what was supposed to be, but whatnot, a day of celebration. you wrote about someone you know, a friend whose rabbi wrote