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
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 July 2022 18:05 (one year ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 4 July 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 4 July 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
Paul Verhoeven himself would think that's a little too on-the-nose
― frogbs, Monday, 4 July 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
Highland Park also happens to be around 30% Jewish.
My first thought too.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 4 July 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
If you need an illustration why I don't feel like celebrating.....
To all ilxors in Illinois, please take care.
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 July 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
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.
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 4 July 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
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.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 4 July 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 4 July 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
wait he is barricaded in a store?~ i haven't heard anything about thatlink?
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 4 July 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
when the news broke there were reports he was holding hostages in a Sunset Foods, but I think they were false (?)
― rob, Monday, 4 July 2022 20:38 (one year ago) link
oh my mistake, I thought he was barricaded in the sunset foods
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 4 July 2022 20:41 (one year ago) link
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
― rob, Monday, 4 July 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
Update an hour ago said he had left the rooftop “in a discreet manner” after shooting.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Monday, 4 July 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
#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
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Monday, 4 July 2022 20:56 (one year ago) link
i have heard two witnesses say they tried to protect their children by putting them inside dumpsters -- so fucking grim
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 4 July 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
They just cancelled our local fireworks. Good.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 July 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link
JUST IN: Photo of suspect: pic.twitter.com/nK0c49ZnjW— Chris Tye (@TVTye) July 4, 2022
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Monday, 4 July 2022 22:17 (one year ago) link
Uh, Googling around I think I found the suspect’s a rapper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIlIVDpc_mw
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Monday, 4 July 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
I'm not giving that person more clout.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 4 July 2022 22:30 (one year ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 July 2022 22:31 (one year ago) link
Fuck this next toad. Don't want to know him. Line up behind the last white male asshole that threw a tantrum.
― Herby Dutch Baby (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 4 July 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link
considering he is still at large and considered armed and dangerous, it's probably worth getting to know him a little.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 July 2022 22:52 (one year ago) link
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.
― "Why is the voice of reason treated as the unreliable narrator?", asked (Austin), Monday, 4 July 2022 22:54 (one year ago) link
You might want to rethink that last sentence.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Monday, 4 July 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
xxp fair enough Josh, but an identifying picture will do. Glad you are safe.
― Herby Dutch Baby (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 4 July 2022 23:43 (one year ago) link
Suspect apprehended alive apparently
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Monday, 4 July 2022 23:49 (one year ago) link
well, he's white you know
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 4 July 2022 23:49 (one year ago) link
They’ll take him to the station after he finishes his shake and catches some fireworks
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Monday, 4 July 2022 23:51 (one year ago) link
burger king run obv
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
Martinis w/Rittenhouse.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 00:34 (one year ago) link
You might want to rethink that last sentence.― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Monday, July 4, 2022 4:29 PM
― 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.
― "Why is the voice of reason treated as the unreliable narrator?", asked (Austin), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 01:42 (one year ago) link
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
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 09:37 (one year ago) link
^^^^
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 11:20 (one year ago) link
A Texan friend reports that the state had has a rash of brush fires as a result of fireworks this year.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 11:23 (one year ago) link
You could set that place on fire tomorrow and it'd look the same as it does today.
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 13:03 (one year ago) link
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.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
Ina crowd like that, it probably only Takes a couple people panicking to set everyone off
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 14:29 (one year ago) link
It's harder to tell the difference between gunshots and fireworks when they are both happening at the same time.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link
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.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 14:32 (one year ago) link
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
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
Also trading him off my Madden team when I get home
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 14:39 (one year ago) link
Sounds like a well-deserved clowning.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 14:42 (one year ago) link
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
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
trend in our village these days is loud backfiring bikes/cars. It's real fun guys, real fun.
― Ste, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 15:08 (one year ago) link
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.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link
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.
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link
Xpost holy hell that is scary
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
If my health ever depends on me dropping to the ground quickly from hearing a loud noise, I'm toast. There's way too much going on for that.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
ha is it a cigar bar named like a certain mass marketed Mexican beer?
― no one wants to twerk anymore (will), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link