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american plague. >> live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster. >> it is tuesday, july 5th, 3:00 a.m. in highland park, illinois. the chicago suburb dealing with yet another tragic mass shooting. at least six people are dead, more than two dozen wounded and a suspect is in police custody now. the shooter started just after 10:00 a.m. local time monday as people lined the parade route along central avenue in the suburb north of chicago. we have video from the scene, but we have to warn you that it is disturbing. [ gunfire ] investigators believe the gunman climbed an uns...

it was because of his time in the military. that's what it sounded like. the street behind me frozen in time, you can still see the chairs strewn about, the beach chairs where people were lined up for this moment of celebration for july 4th, left where they were, as people fled the scene in terror. the rifle, a rifle was discovered soon after the shooting on the rooftop. we have some new information about that rifle, which we'll bring to you in just a moment. the shooter himself, who the police are calling a person of interest to be clear, that's what i should call him, they obtained...

now in custody. police called the attack random and intentional. it is difficult, but important to hear the moment that gunfire erupted to begin to understand the terror that people faced. i'll warn you, the video we're about to see is disturbing. >> lord help us. personally i witnessed bursts of gunfire like that before, but only from u.s. military firing positions, while embedded with u.s. forces in iraq and afghanistan. that was on an american street. >> yeah. and those bullets left a number injured as we mentioned, and dead. the injured ranging in age from 8 to 85 years old. dr. ...

dozens others hospitalized. >> police are calling this attack on paradegoers both random and intentional. i do want to warn you, some of the video you're about to see is disturbing. >> it sounded like a string of firecrackers going off inside of a metal trash bin. that's what i thought it was. 20, 30, maybe. >> i just grabbed my dad and we ran and suddenly everyone was running behind us. and people were just shot behind us. there was a girl just dead. another man was shot in the ear, blood all over his face. >> you look down and you saw just people screaming, you saw people on the gr...

turning a july 4th parade into a mad dash for survival. police say the fgunman fired frm a rooftop. witnesses describe the confusion and chaos. >> i thought for a second maybe it was fire crackers. you've heard before people aren't sure what it is, but it was too fast and too quick, and my son said no, that's gunfire. we turned and ran and i pushed my son's wheelchair, and the wheelchair collapsed on the pavement. he toppled over and i fell. it happened again. and then my young son picks up my older son and ran. we ran for our lives. >> six were killed. dozens more wounded. the video...