parade in the city s downtown area came to a halt after multiple shots were fired. witnesses describe a horrific scene with terrified people running. some ran inside and others hid behind dumpsters and underneath cars. the gunfire started just 14 minutes after the parade began as the band was playing. pictures show multiple victims lying in the street with blood on them. here s how one witness described what they saw. a little after the band went through we heard pow, pow, pow. everybody thought it was fireworks or the military was going through with shotguns. i said something is wrong. i grabbed my dad and started running. i turned and saw a girl shot and i saw her die. i ve never seen anything like this. we were hiding behind the dumpster in about an hour. one man hiding with us had been shot in the head, he had bleeding all over his face. i m just happy that s all that happened. another girl was escorted out was shot in the leg. we went out to get our car keys and the st
special report. this is cnn breaking news. the celebration of america s birthday marred by yet another, another mass shooting here in the united states. and police have just now identified a person of interest in that attack that killed at least six people and injured more than two dozen. cnn s adrianne broadous is on the scene in highland park, illinois. a manhunt is underway right now for the gunman who has just been identified. reporter: yes, seven years after the shots rang out here in highland park, we want to get information to the viewers right a way. a suspect name s is robert bobby crimo iii and a 22-year-old male and they believe he s driving a 2010 silver hyundai with illinois plates d like dog, m like mary and the number 80653. and investigators gave us this information, this latest update about ten minutes ago. they did not tell us what led them to believe this is their person of interest. not saying if they received a tip. not saying whether or not they he
on january 3rd hoping to shoot down trump s plan to replace the acting attorney general with a doj lawyer. cipollone repeatedly warned about the legal pitfalls of trump going to the capitol with his supporters. on january 6th, two sources say he was with trump watching the riot unfold on television. he demanded the chief of staff mark meadows intervene, and the next day the white house counsel told trump to call for the prosecution of the rioters. trump of course never did that, still referring to them as, quote, peaceful. cnn s ryan nobles is on capitol hill. pat cipollone may be the most important witness that has come before the january 6th select committee up until this point, and he spent a lot of time with the committee on friday, gave testimony for more than seven hours, and according to committee sources, they asked him a lot of very specific questions about his view of how the former president conducted himself on january 6th and the decisions that were made on tha
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shooting now charged with seven counts of first degree murder. more charges coming police say. police say they had two calls about the gunman back in 2019, one in april was a report about him attempting suicide. that was ultimately handled by mental health professionals. and then in september, a family member called police saying he had threatened to, quote, kill everyone. in that case officers con confiscated a collection of knives and a sword. at this point they say there was who probable cause to arrest him, but a short time later he legally purchased five firearms including a pistol and the high powered rifle he used to kill innocent people. which raises questions about the earlier police visits and whether more could have been done to prevent this tragedy. investigators also revealing the suspect may have been planning this attack for weeks, several weeks. and they say that afterwards he wore women s clothing as you see here to conceal his identity and facial tattoos. th