Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli, with the Lake County, Illinois, sheriff’s office, announced that suspected Highland Park shooter Robert E. Crimo III had two prior interactions with law enforcement. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer discusses these new revelations with former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, former FBI Supervisory Special Agent Peter Licata and CNN security correspondent Josh Campbell. #CNN #News
Very tragic, I hope the best for this nation, for all of the families victims, I know closure may take time.
As a Canadian, it doesn’t matter what nationality has been victimised by these crimes, I stand with all who we mourning.
Take care, and all the best.
If u got kids move to Canada that’s all I gotta say rip to all those who passed
I wish I was a Canadian.
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@Bryan Most gun sellers are Republicans. The new bipartisan (also signed by key Republicans in the Senate) gun legislation toughen background checks. Why was his mental health not checked? And why sold the gun seller the guns in a “legal” manner anyway.
DAMNNN😢 All that’s missing is ANIMALS ABUSE
Don’t assume he hasn’t done that, too. It’s common in his type of pathology.
on record as being suicidal, then on record threatening to kill his family and all his knives taken away. then able to go buy 2 ar15s and pistols. Murica
@Joe M should we red flag every rapper that glorifies violence?
@Karma Xavier When a person with a KNOWN mental problem still has legal access to deadly weapons-
-It is both-
The failure of our mental health system and the failure in our gun buying system.
If the nut job had a knife- we would not be seeing the deadly aftermath.
So blaming the gun for the number of victims- is actually accurate.
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@Logical Psycho Yes.
Why in a New York Times article about this incident do they refer to the killer as Mr. Crimo? Why give him that level of respect?
Well one thing we know Bryan, you’re guilty of deflection
@Bryan Mr isn’t a pronoun.
@yasser cespedes that’s exactly right. End of story.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Every single time we talk about these losers’, we need to not use their first names.
In this situation they should be calling him: ” Loser Crimo “.
I think most of these losers’ are doing this for the name recognition.
When history speaks of these tragedy’s, we should erase their first name from it.
But make sure they are Tagged as- first name loser for eternity.
That was a close one! For a moment there, I thought the gunman’s Second Amendment rights had been violated.
@Stuart Dryer Good sentence. You sure you’re not Stuart Little?
@Mark Waugh i live in montreal in canada. No one has guns except those who hunt. Why are there relatively no mass shootings here? There was one about 25 years ago. I don’t know even one person who would have benefitted from having a gun. The Gun laws in america were written at a time when it was normal to have a sidearm. Times are different and we should be discouraging guns, not the opposite. You need a gun to defend against a gun. If you make it extremely difficult to have a gun legally and make penalties harsh, then very soon you won’t even think about wanting a gun. I wonder how many people actually use their gun to defend themselves during their lives. Life is about playing the odds. You don’t buy a Ferrari in case one day you get chased by a guy with a BMW, OR do you? I wonder how many gun owners regularly clean their weapons and have them close at hand in case of need. Do you walk around your house with your gun all the time? You never know.
@Mark Waugh lol I don’t play the ‘find me the numbers game’… you mean having sources for your claims? I think that’s your entire problem ace. Us with an education on the left don’t just take things as fact because it fits with our previously held beliefs.
Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli should be commended… He speaks so well, is fully knowledgeable on the subject matter and (to me anyway) appears completely honest!
The MOTIVE is obvious… He was angry with his life and lack of a girlfriend.
LOOK AT COLOMBINE SANDY HOOK etc! Same thing exactly!
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Yet he still managed to buy firearms…. Ridiculous
@newbluerugby The State’s Attorney said he had an AR type weapon, as he discussed charging the guy. You got it right, and have nothing to apologize for.
@912 road warrior Use a little common sense, obviously the gun doesn’t shoot itself. But, someone who has threatened to kill himself and others, should not be allowed to posses a tool to make that easier.
@Deborah Freedman Durrr, and the cops knew about it, people flagged him online and still nothing was done. So shouldn’t the feds be the ones to blame for not getting to him in time, or flagging his record so he couldn’t legally buy a gun?
@912 road warrior id b willing to bet we’ve voted for the same people
@Karly This happened in a state with some of the strictest gun laws in the country, including red flag laws. He should have been red flagged for two previous incidents – an attempted suicide and a threat to “kill everyone” where knives and daggers were confiscated. He was not flagged for whatever reason. Therefore, he purchased the weapon legally since the seller had no way of knowing his previous history. Let’s just say more gun control laws will not work. You will not see criminals turning in their illegal weapons.
His gun rights were clearly more important than the victims rights to live.
I hope its clear i don’t support trump before I’m swamped by messages
It’s trans… Shouldn’t you be referring to him as she?
@Jord2123 Doesn’t matter to me you can vote and support whoever you want
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But he had no problem buying a gun? Only in America.
Even after these red flag incidents he was still able to easily access the weapons he used to commit mass murder. American exceptionalism 😔
@Nic Lewis what are you so scared of, do you drive a car, you’re probably at far greater risk of injury driving to work. Guns are not the problem.
@Nic Lewis they allow for confiscation without charges or conviction. We also have a right to bar arms, and that right shall not be infringed, so said the founders, but it has clearly been whittled away!
@Mark Warren Not wittled enough. People around the world have mental health issues, parents who let them down but don’t have access to weapons of war resulting in mass shootings. There is only one difference America’s access to those weapons. The framers could not conceive of that possiblity so if you want to hold to the framers carry a musket.
@Nic Lewis LOL, you mean you would allow me a real weapon of war, I thought those military weapons were too dangerous for mere civilians.
@Mark Warren 😴 your attention is just boring me now
If the violent posts come from the former president of the United States, should we report it?
Yes
But where do we start with his red flags?
This guy sounds like a poster boy for red flag laws.
It’s very sad to see baby items and children toys left behind😭😭😭😭😭
Did the boy ever get any mental health help? Did his family continue taking him to a therapist? My daughter was suicidal at work and her supervisor took her straight to the mental health facility, where she was put under mandatory supervision. I was the one she chose for the one call they allowed her, and respected her request not to call anyone else. No visitors were allowed. Her husband called me the next day, asking if I had seen her. I had to explain what happened and that contact was not allowed at that point. She was there for two weeks, with calls allowed after one week. She continues with therapy even after 8 years.
@Louise Profits before people, just like the fastfood industry, the soda industry, alcohol industry, butter industry, car industry, etc., etc.
Cry about it.
I send you and your daughter good energy. I have a daughter with mental health issues as well. More people need to take personal responsibility. Mental healthcare in this country is a joke. We need a system to help people help themselves ✌🏻
@L. Medina since 1776 how many acts/laws have restricted guns….
money comes 1st – sales!
@Gilbert crying and dying.
I give them credit for their candor after researching the history, airing it out. It’s the only way we can improve how these types of cases and talk it out.
Is he just a typical CNN viewer?
@S D he a trump supporter even pictures of him with trump flags.
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“we” could quit loving guns more than humans… that’s another way…
He should have been red flagged period. Even when there’s no prosecution if someone has a mental health crisis they should automatically be red flagged and unable to purchase a weapon until they are deemed not dangerous and cleared by a professional.
@LedWolf7 It might discourage people to get help if they know they would go into a national database.
@Lea Garner that is true and when you’re in that state of mind you’re probably already a little paranoid
How do you feel about the movement to restore the civil right of convicted felons ,allowing them to obtain a ccw ?
money 1st is the american way
If the police were called about him making threats, possessing knives and swords that were confiscated, and he made suicidal threats, he should have immediately been put on a list so he couldn’t have bought guns.
It is a problem state to state, and HIPA rules what is released and becomes part of the records used for the background checks. 50 states, is almost like 50 different countries depending on state laws. Depending on the branch, not even every military branch reports dishonorable or mental medical discharge to background checks, as believe a few shooters could have been stopped had it been consistent.
For the love of Christ, didn’t anyone see the images depicting acts of pronounced violence that this monster posted online? And why didn’t anyone notify the proper authorities? Or did they and no action was taken?
When police knew he was suicidal, I believe there was some type of intervention, all arms should of been confiscated
1 Sally G Fuk what you saying it here 😠 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zrfSK6pnpQ
Felicidades, es un buen ejemplo. 😠
5:25 Se deja ver que hay muy buenos resultados 😠😠
Saludos desde la Cd.. de world 🌹😉💖
los mortales abian apreciado tan hermosa mujer
And, he should not have been allowed to purchase more.
We told you this would happen again. Many of those interviewed in Uvalde, from relatives of the victims to political figures and experts on law and gun issues. They all told us that it’ll be another community under fire and not long into the future. And here we are. I’m starting to feel like I can’t have pity anymore. Should I? Should we feel bad for the victims of a national policy and set of laws that allow this? If we won’t turn this around, vote out of office those who promulgate these loose laws that allow this, how long can we go on pretending that we’re doing the right thing? How long can we feel bad for getting exactly the result we deserve?
Join me in voting! We need to expel the duplicitous conservative right to restore sanity to our country.
@Texas Viewpoint laws that our Supreme Court are actively looking to cancel.
When this obviously disturbed young man can legally buy a gun and that gun can be one that was designed as a military weapon, and easily converted to fully automatic firing either directly or via a bump-stock or method of simulating a bump-stock, then the laws have not done far enough.
Had he been able to buy only pistols, with less accurate range, or only single-action rifles, with significantly more time required to recharge between each shot, or if he needed a license that required a potential owner to provide good reason for ownership of a designed-for-military-use weapon, then it’s highly probably that fewer people would have died in the time he spent on that roof.