The Highland Park Fourth of July parade was suddenly halted when shots were fired about 10 minutes after the parade kicked off at 10 a.m. Monday, striking an unknown number of parade-goers and sending hundreds of people running for safety.
Multiple people were shot. A Chicago Sun-Times reporter saw blankets covering three bloodied bodies and five other people wounded and bloodied near the parades reviewing stand.
Several witnesses said they heard multiple shots fired. One witness said he counted more than 20 shots.
I'm being told this is a fairly well-to-do and liberal community in which gun ownership can be expected to be very low.