The Highland Park gunman definitely had run-ins with the law, including threatening to kill his family back in 2019.
There was also an attempted suicide that year in which police became involved.
Here’s more via Daily Wire:
Authorities revealed Tuesday afternoon that the suspect who allegedly shot dozens of people at a parade on Monday had a history of run-ins with law enforcement officials.
Lake County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Christopher Covelli disclosed the information at a press conference after the 22-year-old dressed in drag and killed seven people and wounded more than a dozen others at a parade in Highland Park, Illinois.
“I’m going to relay some information from two prior instances that occurred here in Highland Park,” Covelli said. “The first was in April of 2019. An individual contacted Highland Park Police Department a week after learning of [the suspect] attempting suicide. This was a delayed report, so Highland Park still responded to the residence a week later, spoke with [the suspect], spoke with [the suspect’s] parents, and the matter was being handled by mental health professionals at that time, there was no law enforcement action to be taken. It was a mental health issue and handled by those professionals.”
“The second occurred in September of 2019,” Covelli continued. “A family member reported that [the suspect] said he was going to kill everyone and [the suspect] had a collection of knives. The police responded to his residence, the police removed 16 knives, a dagger, and a sword from [the suspect’s] home. At that time, there was no probable cause to arrest, there were no complaints that were signed by any of the victims. The Highland Park Police Department, however, did immediately notify the Illinois State Police of the incident.”
One of the suspect’s neighbors said that there were signs “for a long time” that something would happen. “There were always police cars at the house. The parents were arguing, fighting all the time.”
Jeremy Cahnmann, who ran an afterschool sports program that the suspect attended, said that the suspect’s parents were a problem.
“I remember the parents more than him because they were kind of a problem,” he said. “There wasn’t a lot of love in that family.”
“[The suspect’s mother] got into it once with one of the heads of the program, she was yelling,” he recalled. “It seemed like her kids were a nuisance to her.”
To quote Greg Price from Twitter: “Illinois has universal background checks, a red flag law and Highland Park has an assault weapons ban. Yet the shooter was able to pass a background check and legally purchase two rifles after police came to his house 3 years ago for threatening to kill his family with a sword.”
But AR-15s are the problem???
Seriously, Crimo would have been 18 or 19 years old when when he both tried to commit suicide and had his swords and knives confiscated after threatening to kill everyone in his family. As an adult, don’t you think that would warrant officers putting a notation on his file, so that if he ever tried to buy a gun it would trigger a little investigation before he’d be able to go through with the purchase? Why didn’t something like that happen?
And then there’s this from NBC News:
“There were a lot of red flags,” added another former Highland Park High School classmate, who asked not to be identified.
Pacileo said he and Crimo bonded over skateboarding and were friends from eighth through 10th grade. He used words like “timid” and “quiet” to describe Crimo’s personality. He said the suspected rooftop sniper never talked about guns and would “zone out a lot.”
But when Crimo turned 18, right around the time he broke up with his girlfriend, his personality changed, Pacileo said.
“Bobby was depressed,” Pacileo said. “He also went off the deep end after he broke up with his girlfriend a few years ago.”
Crimo was obsessed with her, he said, and instead of therapy he turned to drugs.
“He definitely thought there was a border in the mind that needed to be broken through the mind,” he said. “Very third-eye type of stuff that kind of goes along with the psychedelic rap and drugs.”
Crimo also had a strained relationship with his parents, who struggled to make ends meet in the ritzy suburb, Pacileo said.
The suspect’s mother declined to discuss her son when an NBC News reporter approached her for comment.
“Get off my property,” she said outside her home before hopping into a black SUV.
Sounds like Crimo had become a real nutcase after his girlfriend broke up with him.
But at the end of the day, it looks like the system is what failed everyone. Again.