America mourns 6 dead in Independence Day massacre

In America a massacre bloody the 4th July, Independence Day, perhaps the most heartfelt national holiday in the USA.

Six people they remained killed has always been twenty wounds. The young man suspected of shooting, Robert E. “Bobby” Crimo III, was captured several hours ago, about ten kilometers from the site of the massacre, after a massive manhunt: an officer spotted his car and forced it to stop after a brief chase.

In the video filmed by a passerby, you can see Crimo that goes down with the hands in the air e and lie down on the ground. The motivations of the gesture they are not clear. But videos uploaded online about him show images violent e disturbing, which allude to conspiracy theories and are connected to the extreme right American.

Very slim figure, with a patchy beard and tattoos on his face and neck, including one above his left eyebrow with the writing "Awake", the pseudonym he used when he published rap songs online, the young man also appears in the photos that appeared online at demonstrations pro-Trump, although it is not clear whether he was a supporter of the tycoon.

Surely whoever shot used a rifle high-powered, stationed on a roof, randomly targeting people participating in the parade di Highland Park, a location about forty kilometers away Chicago. Five people are death on post, all adults, another is deceased in hospital.

All the injured have aage included among the 8 and the 85 years, about "four o five” of them are children. The severity of their injuries, some caused by the crush during the escape, varies: several have already been discharged, but some are very serious, has explained Brigham Temple ofHighland Park Hospital.

Meanwhile, the names of those killed are beginning to emerge: for example Nicholas Toledo, 78 years old, a grandpa who was taking part in the parade with all his relatives and who in reality should not have been present but who had been brought, in wheelchair, because he needed constant help and no one wanted to stay at home to take care of him.

President, Joe Biden, immediately spoke to the country, outside the White House: flanked by his wife Jill, admitted that this 4th of July falls at a critical time, when there may be “reasons to think this country is going backwards”.

“I know it can be exhausting and scary, but we will get through this. There is nothing guaranteed in our democracy, nothing guaranteed in our way of life.”, he acknowledged. But he added “an appeal for America to move forward with courage and without fear”The Fourth of July holiday commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of independence of United States of America, July 4, 1776, when the Thirteen colonies si they detached laid down by the Britain.

A very heartfelt holiday, celebrated with parties, parades, barbecues and picnics: this time it has left a sense of dismay and plunged the country back into panic. The shooting comes a few weeks after the massacres of uvaldein Texas, and that in a supermarket di Buffalo, New York; and a week after the Congress of United States approved one bipartisan law on control with weaponry, perhaps the most significant in 30 years. But evidently it is still not enough.