stephanie ruhle, the chicago suburb of highland park is the latest community struggling to come to grips with the horror of a deadly mass shooting. tonight the town held a vigil for the seven people killed when a gunman opened fire on a fourth of july parade. the attack also left dozens of people injured. just a few hours ago, vice president kamala harris visited the scene to pay tribute to the victims. police say the suspected gunman fired more than 70 rounds from a rooftop shortly after the parade got underway is today morning. [noise] [noise] [noise] authorities have charged 21 year old male robert with seven counts of murder, and say could eventually face more charges. these are just the first of many charges that will be filed against mr. crimo. i want to emphasize that. there will be more charges. we anticipate dozens more charges, centering around each of the victims, psychological victims, physical victims. so far, police have not identified a motive. but they s
president kamala harris visited the scene to pay tribute to the victims. police say the suspected gunman fired more than 70 rounds from a rooftop shortly after the parade got underway is today morning. [noise] [noise] [noise] authorities have charged 21 year old male robert crimo with seven counts of murder, and say could eventually face more charges. these are just the first of many charges that will be filed against mr. crimo. i want to emphasize that. there will be more charges. we anticipate dozens more charges, centering around each of the victims, psychological victims, physical victims. so far, police have not identified a motive. but they say crimo allegedly planned the attack for weeks. he disguised himself as a woman to make his escape. officials say he legally purchased multiple weapons, including at least two rifles before the shooting. they also revealed that police had to prior contacts with a suspect in 2019 a family member reported he threatened to kill ev
so it leaves these enormous gaps in the system. i will give you an example, if we were looking for al-qaeda or isis-inspired terrorist in the united states, that would be highly centralized. it would be through the fbi, you would see tips and leads come in. everyone would be moving in one direction which is to try and protect from violence, and terrorist groups. we can go out, and after each of these, stephanie, will probably come out here in a few weeks, we will see another shooter with an online presence just like the one we saw yesterday. just like the one we saw before buffalo, just like the one we saw before dayton, or el paso, or any of these locations. so we just don t have that tips and leads system where we can really enable on forced me to do anything then react to the scenarios. even when they do react, that shooter yesterday is from an elevated position over a building, firing into a large crowd against law enforcement who are basically just carrying a handgun walking down
buffalo, just like the one we saw before dayton, or el paso, or any of these locations. so we just don t have that tips and leads system where we can enable on forced me to do anything then react to the scenarios. even when they do react, that shooter yesterday in some anna la veta position over a building, firing into a large crowd against law enforcement who are basically just carrying a handgun walking down the street. this is not a situation where law enforcement are going to do particularly well, and we expect them to be heroes, nearly every single day out in every single street in america at this point. kevin, you said hold on, stephanie yes, please i was just going to add, yes the law enforcement people here are outgunned, and they are the heroes in this case. they were all in the parade yesterday. and then they come up against this person that they have they know nothing about. stephanie, you mentioned we
reporter: yeah, jake. just got an update from lieutenant corner russell of the baltimore police department. there was an incident near the corner of pennsylvania avenue and north avenue a short time ago. a gun did discharge. the scene is calming down now. there was according to police officers across the street here a short time ago, they have since folded and moved back up the street. and there are people milling around here. the situation has calmed down. what we can tell you is from lieutenant corner melvin russell, again, who said there was an incident near the intersection of penn and north. they observed the police observed an adult black male armed with a handgun walking. the police approached him, a short pursuit on foot according to lieutenant colonel russell. the police never discharged their weapons. this person s gun apparently went off somehow. whether they this went off in the course of an apprehension it s not clear but the gun did go off, did not hit anybody, no