Highland Park Fourth of July suspect grew up with boozy parents who often called 911 to home: documents
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Suspected Highland Park Fourth of July parade gunman Robert E. Crimo III grew up in a home where arguments and police visits were common, police records show.
A police officer holds up police tape at the scene of a mass shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade in downtown Highland Park, a Chicago suburb, on Monday, July 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) HIGHLAND PARK, IL: First responders work the scene of a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade on July 4, 2022. (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images) Robert Crimo III, 22, was taken into police custody after a brief car chase. (Katherine Rappel) Police deploy after gunfire erupted at a Fourth of July parade route in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois, U.S. July 4, 2022 in a still image from video. (ABC affiliate WLS/ABC7 via REUTERS) Michael Ruiz is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to michael.ruiz@fox.com and on Twitter: @mikerreports
The couple often traded barbs and called police on one another as their son was growing up, the documents show. Denise Pesina, his mother, told officers her husband "threatens to call police for any and every argument we get in. He wants the police to think I’m crazy."
The father, Robert "Bob" Crimo Jr., once wrote in a witness statement that he wanted a police report explaining that his wife "was not feeling well from her hormones being out of line."