“While all of that is true, you can be grateful for surviving and still feel all these other challenging emotions at the same time.”ĭr. “We can often get into this mindset that we should be over something, that we should be grateful that we survived,” Wright says. Recognizing what might take those who survived the parade shooting back to that morning can help figure out which coping mechanisms might help, according to Wright, who says they might include meditating or listening to music.
‘The community stood behind us,’ say couple who owned Highland Park store from which shooter fired on Fourth of July parade. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. Thank you so much, Cheryl.Ĭopyright © 2022 NPR. That is NPR's Cheryl Corley reporting from Highland Park, Ill. So it's finding out what happened to cause those sorts of injuries and also, you know, what, if any, motive there is for this type of shooting to occur at all.ĬORLEY: You know, obviously, it comes in the context of mass shootings - roughly 250 shooting incidents in the U.S. Well, as you say, it is an ongoing investigation - you know, six people dead, five of them adults - one of those hasn't been identified - about 24 transported to hospitals. And at this point, Cheryl, what can we expect to happen next in this ongoing investigation and in the proceedings that will surely follow?ĬORLEY: Yeah. So he and the president and others have offered, you know, whatever help they can send to this community to help the residents and the community itself recover.ĬHANG: OK. He said there was no words for the kind of evil that shows up at a public celebration of freedom, hides out on a roof and then shoots innocent people with an assault weapon. The governor was also here today and talked about it as well, offering his condolences. The mayor here has said, you know, that this has just been really a devastating experience - the bloodiest kind of incident that has occurred here and just really terrible. He put his kids in a dumpster in an effort to keep them safe. I talked to one man who was at the parade with his partner and their two children, and he said it was just a frightening experience. How have people there been reacting to what has happened today?ĬORLEY: Oh, you know, they've just been devastated. You've also been hearing from a number of officials. You've been talking to people in the community. And as we've been explaining, this all happened during a Fourth of July parade - a happy celebration.ĬHANG. And so they'll be trying to find out more about why this occurred when they question this person of interest tonight.ĬHANG: Right. And at the time, they also debunked rumors that the shooter had taken hostages - not so. And officials say that, you know, it seems like a random act. He was able to gain access to the roof of a building from there and then started just shooting - shooting paradegoers, people who were watching that. But apparently, a gunman had climbed up on a rooftop. 
Well, police say that, you know, the parade was going on. Walk us back a little, and explain how this all unfolded this morning.ĬORLEY: Yes.
Can you return to earlier this morning? As we stated, six people are now dead.
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And as I said, law enforcement came out in full force.ĬORLEY: And by the end of the day here, they say they've captured a suspect.ĬHANG: Right, right. The shooting, of course, occurred around 10 o'clock this morning. A short chase occurred, and Crimo was captured without incident, no injuries. And they say a police officer in a surrounding suburb saw the car of this person of interest. And they had people stationed not just in Highland Park, but all throughout several communities here. So what has law enforcement said about how they found this person of interest?ĬORLEY: Well, you know, Ailsa, there were so many police officers out here in force - state police, several local departments, the FBI. NPR's Cheryl Corley is on the scene and joins us now. After a massive manhunt, officials now say their person of interest is in custody. Earlier today, officials said six people were dead, and at least two dozen were taken to local hospitals. There has been another mass shooting, this one earlier today at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Ill.
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