After July 4 shooting, Highland Park residents say might be time to leave U.S.
Global News
Seven people were killed and 38 people were injured Monday when a lone gunman opened fire on spectators while they were watching the Fourth of July parade.
It was 10:17 a.m. on the Fourth of July, central daylight time, when Shelly Sella’s cellphone rang. She remembers the time precisely.
What she heard – it was her daughter, Lauren – she will never forget.
“Screaming: ‘There’s a shooter, there’s a shooter, you gotta come get us, you gotta come get us,”’ Sella recalled.
“There’s no mother on planet Earth, I don’t care how old your child is, that wants to get that call.”
Lauren and her friend Amanda Levy, who was visiting from Connecticut, were at the Fourth of July parade Monday in the tiny Chicago suburb of Highland Park when the shots rang out.
“I think I blacked out,” said Levy, 28, as she described seeing some of the floats in the parade come to an unexpected stop.
“I was confused. And then we saw the band running on the sidewalks. And that’s when I looked at (Lauren) and we saw a cop running the opposite way.”
Seven people were killed and 38 people were injured Monday when a lone gunman, perched on a rooftop and disguised in women’s clothing, opened fire on spectators while they were watching the Fourth of July parade pass through the suburban downtown.