Robert Crimo III, the gunman who killed seven folks and injured dozens in a mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, on July 4, 2022, was sentenced to life in jail with out the potential for parole on Thursday.
Crimo was sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences, Decide Victoria A. Rossetti introduced on Thursday.
“This courtroom hopes this sentence hopes brings a way of justice and an finish to the continued horror,” Rossetti stated.
The sentencing listening to, which started Wednesday, completed Thursday morning after the courtroom heard from a number of survivors and kinfolk of these killed within the capturing on the Independence Day parade.
Robert E. Crimo III arrives for his trial in Decide Victoria A. Rossetti’s courtroom in Waukegan, In poor health., March 3, 2025.
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Crimo determined to not seem in courtroom on Wednesday or Thursday. The shooter’s dad and mom, who’ve attended most courtroom proceedings, have been additionally not current.
The victims, who anticipated to handle Crimo on the sentencing listening to, nonetheless shared the influence Crimo’s assault had on their lives.
Leah Sundheim, daughter of sufferer Jacqueline Sundheim, stated Crimo “threw the stability of this world off” by killing her mom.
“I hope you wake in the course of the night time, gasping air you do not deserve,” Sundheim stated in courtroom on Wednesday.
Sundheim additionally learn a press release on behalf of her father, Bruce Sundheim, who stated their household’s lives have been destroyed by Crimo’s “violent tantrum.”
Marcia Moran, whose husband was shot by Crimo, stated she has been in remedy for over two years as a result of emotional trauma. Her household has since moved out of Highland Park and is now dwelling in Tennessee.
“The shooter does not get to take something extra from me,” Moran stated in courtroom by way of Zoom.
Deserted belongings close to the scene of a capturing at a Fourth of July parade, on July 7, 2022 in Highland Park, In poor health.
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In March, Crimo pleaded guilty to 21 counts of first-degree homicide, three counts for every particular person killed, and dozens of tried homicide costs.
Survivor Ashbey Beasley, who fled the parade along with her son when the gunfire broke out, stated in March the plea introduced an “immense quantity of aid.”
“Each single time I see [Crimo], it is tense,” she instructed reporters again in March. “I believe it is upsetting for everybody…Simply realizing that his plea has been entered and we won’t should see him once more is what all of us want.”
Crimo appeared prepared to just accept a responsible plea final June throughout a listening to, solely to reject the deal in entrance of devastated members of the victims’ households. He was anticipated to plead responsible to seven counts of homicide and 48 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm on the listening to on the time, in accordance with the AP.
“We’ve Fourth of July arising and it is going to be two years,” Sundheim stated at a information convention on the time. “All I wished was to have the ability to absolutely grieve my mother with out the looming trial, realizing that he was going to spend the remainder of his life in jail. And as an alternative, we have been but once more proven [Crimo’s] full and blatant disregard for people.”
Robert E. Crimo III arrives for his trial in Decide Victoria A. Rossetti’s courtroom in Waukegan, In poor health., March 3, 2025.
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Crimo instructed police he wore ladies’s clothes through the capturing and used make-up to cover his facial tattoos and mix in with the group through the chaos, prosecutors stated. Crimo was apprehended hours later and prosecutors stated he confessed to the capturing.
Crimo’s father, Robert Crimo Jr., pleaded responsible final 12 months to reckless conduct, admitting to signing the Firearm Proprietor’s Identification card for his son to use for gun possession.
The youthful Crimo was 19 on the time and too younger to get a FOID card on his personal. Illinois on the time required folks ages 18, 19 or 20 to have father or mother or guardian authorization.
