him. the parade highland park as well attended by families, with young kids every year. that s would ve fourth of july parade should. be the local high school marching band was performing when the shooting began. absent night seven people have died after being shot at the parade. 47 people were wounded. the victims range in age from 88 years old till eight years old. the alleged shooter is 21 years old. he is currently in custody. authorities say they believe he s been planning the attack for weeks. all in all, he fired more than 70 rounds from an ar style weapon. that he purchased legally in the state of illinois. this could be a tape, by the, way that s what i always say. that someone bought one of these ar style weapons. but the thing about this particular type of weapon is that while it was purchased legally in this state, it was technically illegal to carry that kind of semi automatic weapon inside the city of highland park, where this massacre took place. because in 201
well attended by families, with young kids every year. that s what a fourth of july parade should. be the local high school marching band was performing when the shooting began. absent night seven people have died after being shot at the parade. 47 people were wounded. the victims range in age from 88 years old to eight years old. the alleged shooter is 21 years old. he is currently in custody. authorities say they believe he s been planning the attack for weeks. all in all, he fired more than 70 rounds from an ar style weapon. that he purchased legally in the state of illinois. this could be a tape, by the, way because that s what i always say. that someone bought one of these ar style weapons. but the thing about this particular type of weapon is that while it was purchased legally in this state, it was technically illegal to carry that kind of semi automatic weapon inside the city of highland park, where this massacre took place. because in 2013, the city of highland park
families with young kids every year. that s what a fourth of july parade should be. local high school marching band was performing when the shooting began and as of tonight, seven people have died after being shot at that parade. 47 people were wounded. the victims range in age from 88 years old to 8 years old. the alleged shooter is 21 years old currently in custody. authorities say they believe he had been planning this attack for weeks. now, all in all, he fired more than 70 rounds from an ar-style weapon that he purchased legally in the state of illinois. this could be a tape by the way because that s what i always say that someone baugtd one of these ar-style weapons. but the thing about this particular type of weapon is that while it was purchased legally in this state, it was technically illegal to carry that kind of semiautomatic weapon inside the city of highland park where this massacre took place because in 2013 the city of highland park banned assault weapons from
the sale and possession of assault weapons. to date, the state has failed to enact a statewide ban on the sale of or possession of assault weapons. and quote. what s the city council here was suddenly pointing to, is that this kind of citywide assault weapons ban doesn t mean anything if there are weak gun laws and surrounding areas. no cop is checking you when you re coming into highland park, even with that ban in place, there s nothing standing in the way of someone who decides to legally purchased an assault weapon somewhere else in the state, or even a neighboring state and drive it into highland park to kill people. which is of course exactly what happened yesterday morning, just behind where i m standing. we are learning more today about the trauma injured by the survivors of this mass shooting. one woman told the new york times that while she was fleeing the gunshots, she saw toddler trapped under a man who was bleeding. and unresponsive. the boys injury was minor, just some sc
to have to see this again. but they will. i am sorry for what you ve had to face. thank you for telling us about it. thank you for your time. it helps us to understand it. why this doesn t have to happen again. thank you. i hope your kids are okay. thank you so much for your time. was that the fourth of july and highland park when the deadly shooting happened. as were a lot of people i spoke to today. as we learn more about what happened, we re also learning about the seven people who were killed in the shooting. they are 64 year old katherine goldstein. 63-year-old jacquelyn sundheim. 88 year old stephen straus. 78 year old nicolas toledo-zaragoza. whom we just heard about, he was standing behind my last guess. the couple we mentioned earlier, 35-year-old irina mccarthy and 37 year old kevin mccarthy as well as a yet identified person. those are the seven who have passed away. we are going to have more information on these victims.