lives. bill: so the victims range in age of 8-85. the attack prompted nearby cities to cancel events in illinois. officers arresting a person of interest later around 5 miles away from the same. he s identified as a 21-year-old aspiring rapper with a history of posting violent imagery online. dana: the parade attack follows a recent string of mass shootings targeting churches, schools, grocery stores. the headline fourth of july terror and those that were there say that the scripted accurately. side screaming. they did know it was coming from. seem like it was fireworks. that s when everybody was running inside then we started noticing how many people were bloody. i saw somebody on the ground with his leg in the air and the garlic crying next to him. then to my left my mom and i saw at least three more people on the ground, bloody. the naturally likely to started running towards her car. my granddaughter said to me when she was leaving she said pop pop dealt with
troubling social media posts from recent mass shooters. experts tell us what we can all look out for online. garrett: i m major garrett in the nation s capitol with other top stories. new details in the investigations of fatal police shooting in akron, ohio. severe weather threat for tens of millions. we re tracking the dangerous storms and triple-digit heat. brittney griner s wife speaks out. we talked to the wnba star s partner about the effort to bring her home from a russian prison. and an american heros honor. four vehement veterans receive the medal of honor. good evening, and thank you for joining us on this tuesday night. i m adriana diaz in for norah. major garrett is in washington, d.c. we begin in highland park, illinois where authorities are expected to soon announce charges against a 21-year-old suspected to have shooting dozens at a july 4th parade in this suburb of chicago. tonight we are learning the names of six of the victims killed. today a seventh die
custody at lake forest, illinois, after a brief pursuit earlier. police also recovering a high powered rifle, who say believed to be the weapon he was at the shooting. that is the car that police say crimo was driving. you can see it here on this live picture. this all started approximately, at 10:14 am, central time. the shooter opened fire on the town separate from a rooftop, along that route. and again, police say six people have been killed, and health officials reported that at least two dozen, if not three dozen, were hurt. 25, with gunshot wounds, in that total. let s go straight to shaquille brewster, and as an msnbc correspondent there on the ground for us. and shaq, just the breaking news within the last 15 minutes that they have apprehended that person of interest. what else are we hearing? well, we are likely not gonna have any more updates from local law enforcement until tomorrow. but you are just in the past couple of minutes there, we had that major update,
we begin with the latest developments in the mass shooting in illinois. six killed, 38 injured when a gunman opened fire at a fourth of july parade in highland park. that is an affluent suburb of chicago. this video shows a band playing as people begin to run. other footage caught the jarring sound of gunfire. [ gunfire ] imagine the shock and confusion. maybe it was fireworks, they could rightly think. no, those were gunshots. the series of shots you heard followed by a second round of shooting that lasted about 7 seconds. the gunman was on a rooftop with a high-powered rifle. parade-goers scattering in all directions once they realized what was happening. you see a band running there. the crowd left behind chairs, toys, baby strollers, and blankets. here s one witness describing that scene. a few minutes into the parade started, like, the marching band had just passed, i heard a subsequent pop, pop, pop, all in quick succession. i thought to myself, that s not that
A recreation director was fired by the Park District of Highland Park while on leave for the post-traumatic stress disorder he has experienced since the mass shooting during the suburb’s