Robert Crimto III, the gunman who killed seven people and wounded dozens in a massive shooting at Highland Park, Illinois, on July 4, 2022 he was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of probation on Thursday.
Position was sentenced to seven consecutive perpetual chains along with 50 years in prison for each injured person, Judge Victoria A. Rossetti announced Thursday.
“This court expects this sentence to bring a sense of justice and an end of continuous horror,” Rossetti said.
Robert E. Crimto III arrives for his trial in the court of Judge Victoria A. Rossetti in Waukegan, Illinois, March 3, 2025.
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The Judgment Hearing, which began on Wednesday and ended Thursday morning, included the testimony of multiple survivors and relatives of those killed in the shooting at the Independence Day parade.
Position, 24 years old, decided not to appear before court on Wednesdays or Thursdays. The shooter’s parents, who have attended most judicial procedures, were not present either.
Regarding the absence of charge, Lake County Prosecutor Eric Rinehart said: “It is clear that he could not face what he had done.”
“Seven people lost their lives, but this community continued,” Rinehart said during a press conference held after the sentence. “There has always been strength in this community and this group of victims and survivors, and that contrasts with what the offender did.”
Liz Turnipseed, a shooting survivor, said the sentence “closes a chapter” in that part of his family’s life.
“I don’t have to think about him anymore, I don’t have to worry about him anymore,” Turnipseed said during the press conference.
The survivors and family members, who hoped to address Crimto directly at the sentence hearing, shared the impact that Crimpo’s attack had on their lives.
Leah Sundheim, daughter of victim Jacqueline Sundheim, said I Cord “threw the balance of this world” by killing his mother.
“I hope you wake up in the middle of the night, panting the air you don’t deserve,” said Sundheim in court on Wednesday.
Sundheim also read a statement on behalf of his father, Bruce Sundheim, who said that his family’s lives have been destroyed by Crimto’s “violent tantrum”.
Abandoned belongings near the scene of a shooting in a parade on July 4, on July 7, 2022 in Highland Park, Ill.
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Marcia Moran, whose husband was shot by Crimto, said he has been in therapy for more than two years due to emotional trauma. Since then, his family moved from Highland Park and now lives in Tennessee.
“The shooter can’t take me anything else,” said Moran in the Court through Zoom.
In March, position declared himself guilty of 21 first -degree murder positions, three charges for each murdered person and dozens of murder attempts.
Survivor Ashbey Beasley, who fled the parade with his son when he exploded the shots, said the plea brought an “immense amount of relief.”
“Every time I see [Crimo]It’s stressful, “journalists told journalists.” I think it is annoying for everyone … just knowing that its plea has been admitted and that we will not have to see it again is what we all need. “
Position seemed ready to accept a statement of guilt last June during an audience, only to reject the agreement against the devastated members of the victims’ families. It was expected to be guilty of seven murder positions and 48 charges of aggravated aggression with a firearm at the audience at that time, according to the AP.
“We have the room of July and they will spend two years,” said Sundheim at a press conference at that time. “All I wanted was to be able to cry my mother completely without the imminent judgment, knowing that the rest of her life was going to spend in jail. And instead, once again they showed us [Crimo’s] complete contempt and shameless by humans. “
Robert E. Crimto III arrives for his trial in the court of Judge Victoria A. Rossetti in Waukegan, Illinois, March 3, 2025.
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He told the police that he wore women’s clothes during the shooting and used makeup to hide his facial tattoos and combine with the crowd during chaos, prosecutors said. Position was arrested hours later and prosecutors said he confessed the shooting.
The father of charge, Robert Crimeo Jr., declared himself guilty last year of reckless conduct, admitting that he signed the identification card of the owner of firearms so that his son requests the property of arms two years before the shooting. As part of the guilt, Crimeo Jr. was sentenced to 60 days in jail and two years of probation.
The youngest Crimto was 19 at the time he got the card and too young to get a FOID card on his own. Illinois at that time required people of 18, 19 or 20 to have authorization of parents or guardians.
