some at first thought they were hearing fireworks. families frantically trying to protect their children. a father hiding his son in a dumpster. tonight, we hear from a doctor who was at the parade with his family and young grandson. he describes the horrific scene on the street. alex perez and pierre thomas are standing by. also today, a curfew in place and fireworks canceled in akron, ohio, tonight. tensions are rising after police released body camera footage of the deadly police shooting of jayland walker. the medical examiner finding more than 60 wounds on his body. frustration is already mounting as millions repair to make their return trip home after the holiday. more than 2,000 flights delayed or canceled just today. that number is likely to soar tomorrow. tracking severe thunderstorms from montana to illinois. damaging winds and possible flash flooding. red flag warnings threaten fireworks displays in the west. wnba star brittney griner s personal appeal to presid
live picture. this all started approximately at 10:14 am, central time. the shooter opened fire on the towns parade from a rooftop, along that route. and again, police say six people have been killed, and health officials report 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 heard this in the past couple of minutes there. we had that major update that person of interest was identified and, identified and captured. he is now in custody. just so you get a sense of where lake forest is. it s a town about 15 minutes from where i m standing right now. i m at the crime scene, about a block away from w
Shooting in america, he said that he s curious about it. you get a sense, this is going to be something that we re gonna hear a lot from, we heard from the president about it, we heard from the vice president, who is actually scheduled to be in the chicago area tomorrow. that trip is still on this point. so we re gonna hear much more about this, as this investigation continues. but the big news in the past couple of minutes here is that the person of interest that was identified, and that we know let local law enforcement on a very active investigation, that person of interest has now been captured. and we will wait to see what more they have to say, come the morning. nbc shaquille brewster, about a block away from the crime scene where six individuals were killed at a july 4th parade, and on the left-hand side. thank you so much, shaq. on the left-hand side, you re seeing live pictures of the vehicle. that was the person of interest that s where he was apprehended, now in custody. w
Past? from a criminal perspective, was there anything that would have disqualified him from having that got on his person prior to the shooting. not a lot of anything i just said is going to do a lot of good for the victims and the people that were impacted by this today. but those are the types of questions, richard, that we still have at this point. tom, practically, help us out. the difference between person of interest versus suspects, and with that might mean for the process the law enforcement is going through? great question, it means different things to different communities. in new york city, for instance, if somebody is a person of interest, up to the moment they ve been charged. there s some technical parts of the law that, if the new york city police department to call somebody a suspect, there will be certain legal things that could happen at that point, and they are often reticent to do so until they get the person in custody and put it case together. it kind of depen
Now in custody. here is the moment that officials broke that news. what i can tell you at this moment, it was approximately 15 minutes ago, the subject you are looking for, the person of interest, robert e. crimo iii, was spotted by a north chicago police unit at buckley and 41. his vehicle, the vehicle we are looking for, he initiated attempted to initiate a traffic stop, and that subject did flee. a brief pursuit was went on. ultimately, they were able to get the subject stopped at leslie and 41 in lake forest. the fact is he was taken into custody without incident. now, the arrest of the suspect came after a massive hours-long manhunt across the chicago area that left communities on it. you can see the car that the suspect was driving right here, just moments after his long enforcement was trying to find yet more potential evidence to find out if this person of interest was indeed the suspect, a person they could charge. i want to play you some