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The grandparents of a boy who was orphaned in the Highland Park mass shooting are battling over who will get custody of the child.

Aiden McCarthy's mother and father were among seven people slain during the July 4th parade.

Kevin and Irina McCarthy were at an Independence Day parade in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Highland Park with their two-year-old son Aiden

McCarthy, 37, worked at a gene therapy startup and graduated from DePaul University; he died alongside his wife, Irina.

Kevin and Irina McCarthy left behind a 2-year-old son who was with them when they were killed.

The gunman in Monday's massacre at a Fourth of July parade in the Illinois city of Highland Park admitted he carried out the attack, killing seven and wounding dozens of others, prosecutors said in court Wednesday. Robert E. Crimo III, 21, told...

Irina McCarthy was 35, the youngest person killed. Her husband, Kevin, was 37.

Among the seven people killed during the Highland Park shooting were Kevin McCarthy, 37, and Irina McCarthy, 35, parents to 2-year-old Aiden.

As a nation, we failed Aiden McCarthy, a toddler whose parents were killed in the Fourth of July parade shooting in Highland Park.

By his fathers final act of heroism, Aiden McCarthy survived Mondays carnage at a July Fourth parade in s...