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Six people died and at least 30 were injured Monday morning after a gunman opened fire from a roof on a July 4th parade in Highland Park, Illinois.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Five people are dead and 16 are injured after a shooting at a July Fourth parade in Highland Park, a suburb 30 miles north of Chicago.

Multiple people were shot along a parade route in north Chicago on Monday morning, sources for ABC said.

Several witnesses told a newspaper that they heard gunfire.

Gunman apparently opened fire on paradegoers from rooftop, police say, as authorities still searching for suspect

Police have arrested 22-year-old Robert Crimo as a person of interest in the shooting.

More than two dozen people were injured in a “random” mass shooting in Highland Park on Monday morning, at least six of them fatally shot, about 15 minutes into the northern suburb’s Fourth of July parade, according to police and the Lake County sheriff’s office.

Hundreds of parade-goers flee after shots were fired

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — At least six people died and 24 were wounded in a shooting at a July Fourth parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, and officers are searching for a suspect who likely fired on the festivities from a rooftop, police said Monday.

At least 16 people were taken to the hospital, according to the city of Highland Park, Ill.