Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

sorry meant to direct link the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKHLB1b5jkc

Oh my lord — the guy is still at large and all neighboring burbs have cancelled their parades. Really fucked up!!!

Along with being a nice suburb, Highland Park also happens to be around 30% Jewish. I guess we'll learn if that played a role, but honestly, these days, it could have be anything.

A former editor of mine:

As a Highland Park resident who lives about a 10-minute walk from where this all happened, not sure I can express how unusual any violent crime is for this community. No fewer than six people offered my wife, who was out for a walk, a ride home after alerting her to events.

— Kevin Williams (@TribuneKevin) July 4, 2022

fucking awful and tragic, and another large group of young people terrorized for life

hope this at least convinces a few stubborn people THIS COULD HAPPEN IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

holy fuck

Google's 4th of July tribute goes wrong when page is overtaken by news of mass shooting pic.twitter.com/C0pfjKxFk0

— BNO News (@BNONews) July 4, 2022

Paul Verhoeven himself would think that's a little too on-the-nose

Highland Park also happens to be around 30% Jewish.

My first thought too.

If you need an illustration why I don't feel like celebrating.....

To all ilxors in Illinois, please take care.

I’m staying in (cause I have Covid) and am listening to George Crumb’s American Songbooks, whose spooky resettings of folk songs matches my mood about this country.

Watching the Channel 5 live stream on the Trib's site, and the eyewitness accounts -- and accounts by doctors who happened to be on the scene -- are so fucking horrifying.

My grandparents lived in Highland Park for all of my childhood, and apparently the shooter was perched on the building that my grandmother had her office in (she was a child psychologist). I was at that building many times, mostly to sit in my grandma's spinning chair and get candy from her office drawer. When we visited, we shopped at the sunset foods the shooter is apparently barricaded inside. I guess it always feels unimaginable that this happens anywhere, but it feels insanely unimaginable to me that this happened there.

FWIW it's also very close to Skokie of Skokie vs Nazi Party infamy.

wait he is barricaded in a store?~ i haven't heard anything about that
link?

when the news broke there were reports he was holding hostages in a Sunset Foods, but I think they were false (?)

oh my mistake, I thought he was barricaded in the sunset foods

yeah it's confusing, I'm not seeing anything acknowledging/disavowing those earlier reports but updated reports are just saying he's still at large

Update an hour ago said he had left the rooftop “in a discreet manner” after shooting.

#HighlandPark Shooting:

*Shooter still at large.
*Shooter exited a rooftop in a "discreet" way making himself "difficult to see".
*The size of the crime scene making it hard to process.
*Updates at the top of each hour.@cbschicago

— Chris Tye (@TVTye) July 4, 2022

i have heard two witnesses say they tried to protect their children by putting them inside dumpsters -- so fucking grim

They just cancelled our local fireworks. Good.

JUST IN: Photo of suspect: pic.twitter.com/nK0c49ZnjW

— Chris Tye (@TVTye) July 4, 2022

Uh, Googling around I think I found the suspect’s a rapper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIlIVDpc_mw

I'm not giving that person more clout.

He apparently left behind a trail/trove of videos, some pretty disturbing. Possibly part of a three+ generation Highland Park family whose grandfather ran a bakery and dad maybe ran for mayor. But given the guy is a walking distinguishing feature, it's just a matter of time before he's caught/killed and all details come out.

Fuck this next toad. Don't want to know him. Line up behind the last white male asshole that threw a tantrum.

considering he is still at large and considered armed and dangerous, it's probably worth getting to know him a little.

news flash that's not shocking to anyone whatsoever: he's a racist coward and his online content is full of hate gore.

erase the fucking mistakes already.

You might want to rethink that last sentence.

xxp fair enough Josh, but an identifying picture will do. Glad you are safe.

Suspect apprehended alive apparently

well, he's white you know

They’ll take him to the station after he finishes his shake and catches some fireworks

burger king run obv

Martinis w/Rittenhouse.

You might want to rethink that last sentence.

― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Monday, July 4, 2022 4:29 PM

sorry for lack of clarity— meant the stupid "amendment" that they hide behind.

i have no business talking about this.

Downtown Orlando's fireworks show ended in mass panic and people fleeing for their lives, believing there was a shooting. It was actually a firecracker noise in the crowd that confused people and there was no shooting.

(I wasn't there, I hate fireworks and the holiday)

If this doesn't encapsulate how on edge everybody (rightfully) is, I don't know what does

^^^^

A Texan friend reports that the state had has a rash of brush fires as a result of fireworks this year.

You could set that place on fire tomorrow and it'd look the same as it does today.

Ngl, as someone who has lived in pretty rough urban areas as well as rural areas for a lot of my adult life, it is wildly easy to tell the difference between gunshots and fireworks. Not that being on edge isn’t justified, but still.

Ina crowd like that, it probably only Takes a couple people panicking to set everyone off

It's harder to tell the difference between gunshots and fireworks when they are both happening at the same time.

totally, i mean i get it, just pointing something out. it’s actually the subject of jokes in a lot of gentrifying neighborhoods— older residents making fun of the new residents calling the cops over some kids with cherry bombs.

The owner of a chain of Cigar bars said the reason everyone was on edge last night was the "polarizing message the City of Orlando sent" two days earlier suggesting "inclusivity doesn't include conservative beliefs".

He was broadly clowned and I'm never going to his shitty cigar bars again

Also trading him off my Madden team when I get home

Sounds like a well-deserved clowning.

xxxpost Yeah, the people who think every boom is a gun have no idea. But a series of pops can be easily confused for a series of other pops. For a while here assholes were installing exhaust pipes that mimicked the sound of guns. A la

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq9-rc4WrPk

trend in our village these days is loud backfiring bikes/cars. It's real fun guys, real fun.

I'm pretty(?) used to fireworks & stuff? But last year there was an actual drive-by shooting around the corner from me and tbh I didn't realize until way too late that they were actual shots.

Supposedly it was the pops from an idiot who set off his own firecrackers in the crowd, and then one guy yelling THEY'RE SHOOTING, THEY'RE SHOOTING

They had to have a reunification area and everything. Relieved there was no shooting.

Xpost holy hell that is scary