{"id":67148,"date":"2022-07-06T20:25:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T20:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/the-suspect-in-the-july-fourth-parade-mass-shooting-has-been-charged-with-7-counts-of-murder"},"modified":"2022-07-06T20:25:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T20:25:25","slug":"the-suspect-in-the-july-fourth-parade-mass-shooting-has-been-charged-with-7-counts-of-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/the-suspect-in-the-july-fourth-parade-mass-shooting-has-been-charged-with-7-counts-of-murder","title":{"rendered":"The Suspect In The July Fourth Parade Mass Shooting Has Been Charged With 7 Counts Of Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement escorts a family away from the scene of the shooting in Highland Park, Illinois. Mark Borenstein \/ Getty Images The man suspected of carrying out the mass shooting that killed at least seven people at a 4th of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois , was charged with seven counts of first-degree murder on Tuesday. Lake County state&#8217;s attorney Eric F. Rinehart told reporters that the 21-year-old suspect, Robert E. Crimo III, will likely face &#8220;many&#8221; additional charges for the &#8220;premeditated and calculated attack&#8221; that injured dozens of other people who tried to flee the hail of gunfire as the parade got underway. Authorities said more than 70 bullets were fired from a rooftop during the attack. If convicted of the murder charges, Rinehart said Crimo would face a mandatory sentence of life without parole. He was arraigned in court on Wednesday, where he was denied bail. At the hearing, Assistant State Attorney Ben Dillon said Crimo &#8220;provided<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert E. Crimo III has been charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, with more charges expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-67148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}