A single rose rests in the snow at the base of a plaque for Nicolás Toledo at a temporary memorial in the rose garden outside Highland Park City Hall on Feb. 18, 2025. The memorial honors the victims of the July 4, 2022, Independence Day shooting. Toledo and six other people were killed and 48 people were injured in the shooting. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)
A plaque honoring Eduardo Uvaldo stands with six other plaques at a temporary memorial in the rose garden outside Highland Park City Hall on Feb. 18, 2025. The memorial honors the victims of the July 4, 2022 Independence Day shooting. Uvaldo and six other people were killed and 48 people were injured in the shooting. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)
Shana Gutman and her mom, Eadie Bear, lifelong residents of Highland Park, take a look at the scene on Central Avenue on July 5, 2022, the day after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park. They said they frequently attend the parade but didn't this year. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
People embrace during a vigil at Central and St. Johns avenues in Highland Park on July 5, 2022, a day after a mass shooting that resulted in seven dead and more than 30 injured at a Fourth of July parade in the north suburb. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)
Law enforcement officers stand guard at the scene of a mass shooting along the Independence Day parade route on Central Avenue in Highland Park on July 4, 2022. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
Officers search a building near the scene of a mass shooting on July 4, 2022, following the Independence Day parade in Highland Park. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)
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A Lake Forest police officer walks down Central Avenue in Highland Park on July 4, 2022, after a shooter fired on the northern suburb's Independence Day parade.
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Law enforcement officers clear buildings at the scene of a mass shooting along Highland Park's Independence Day parade route on July 4, 2022, on Central Avenue.
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Law enforcement officers respond to the scene of a mass shooting along the Independence Day parade route on July 4, 2022, on Central Avenue in Highland Park.
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Chairs, bicycles and strollers remain at the scene of a mass shooting at Highland Park's Independence Day parade route on July 4, 2022, along Central Avenue.
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Law enforcement officers help evacuate people from an Anthropologie store in Highland Park on July 4, 2022, after a shooter fired on the northern suburb's Independence Day parade.
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Law enforcement officers respond to the scene of a mass shooting along the Independence Day parade route on July 4, 2022, on Central Avenue in Highland Park.
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A law enforcement official moves a stroller, which was left behind after a shooter fired on Highland Park's Independence Day parade on July 4, 2022.
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Law enforcement officers arrive at a staging area at the Hidden Creek Aquapark in Highland Park on July 4, 2022, after a shooter fired on the northern suburb's Independence Day parade.
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FBI agents investigate the scene in Highland Park on July 4, 2022, after a shooter fired on the northern suburb's Independence Day parade.
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People speak to firefighters at the scene of a mass shooting in Highland Park during the town's Independence Day parade on July 4, 2022.
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Toppled-over chairs, bottles of water and other belongings are seen along the parade route in Highland Park on July 4, 2022, after a mass shooting left seven dead and dozens injured.
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Law enforcement officers work at the scene of a mass shooting along the Independence Day parade route on July 4, 2022, on Central Avenue in Highland Park.
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Law enforcement climb a ladder to work the Central Avenue crime scene, July 5, 2022, the day after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
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Police officers patrol Central Avenue on July 5, 2022, the day after Highland Park's Independence Day parade mass shooting.
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Chairs, bicycles, strollers and balloons remain at the scene of a mass shooting at Highland Park's Independence Day parade route on July 4, 2022, along Central Avenue.
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A stroller is seen left behind at the scene of a mass shooting on July 4, 2022, in Highland Park.
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Authorities pick up items left behind by paradegoers along Central Avenue on July 5, 2022, the day after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
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Law enforcement officers collect items, including a bike helmet, left behind at the Central Avenue crime scene, July 7, 2022.
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Law enforcement members pick up items left behind by people, including an American flag, along Central Avenue on July 5, 2022, the day after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
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Members of the community attend an interfaith service on July 10, 2022, at Glencoe Union Church after seven people were killed on July Fourth during a mass shooting in Highland Park.
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People visit one of the memorials to the seven victims along Central Avenue on July 10, 2022.
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People watch as law enforcement continue to investigate the scene along Central Avenue on July 5, 2022, the day after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
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A law enforcement officer on July 5, 2022, picks up a water-logged American flag left behind after the mass shooting at Highland Park's Independence Day parade the previous day.
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People visit a memorial in Port Clinton Square where seven chairs hold pictures of the victims on July 10, 2022, six days after a mass shooting during the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
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Uvalde, Texas, and Highland Park mass shootings survivors, families and supporters rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., calling for stricter gun controls on July 13, 2022.
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Highland Park resident Kernel Parikh leaves flowers near the Central Avenue crime scene on July 5, 2022, the day after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
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People leave flowers at a growing memorial for victims near the Central Avenue scene, July 6, 2022, two days after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
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Highland Park resident Lori Flores Weisskopf becomes emotional as she looks at the scene on July 5, 2022, of a mass shooting that left at least seven people dead and injured more than 30 others during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park. "I came to see it for myself. You see it on TV, but I had to see myself," she said.
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A crowd of over 400 people gather at 10:14 a.m. in Port Clinton Square in Highland Park for several minutes of silence on July 11, 2022. to mark exactly one week since a mass shooting killed seven people at the city's Fourth of July parade.
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Felix and Kimberly Rubio, who lost their daughter Lexi in the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting, march in a rally calling for a federal ban on assault weapons on July 13, 2022, in Washington, D.C.
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A woman pauses to visit a memorial in Port Clinton Square in Highland Park on July 11, 2022.
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Anna Sandoval brings her daughter, Ariela Antunez, 4, to deliver flowers at a new memorial depicting the seven victims near the Central Avenue crime scene, July 7, 2022, in Highland Park. Antunez, of Highland Park, attended the parade with her father.
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People stop to mourn at a memorial near Central Avenue, July 7, 2022, three days after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
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People visit the memorial to the victims near the Central Avenue scene on July 6, 2022, two days after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
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At Iglesia Evangelica Bautista Emanuel in Waukegan, mourners wheel Nicolas Toledo Zaragoza's casket to a hearse after his funeral service on July 8, 2022. One of Toledo's sons, Angel Toledo, is at right at the front of the casket.
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A wagon and flags remain at St. John Avenue near the scene of a mass shooting in Highland Park's Independence Day parade on July 4, 2022. The shooting led to the deaths of at least seven people, authorities said.
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Flowers, candles and a teddy bear lay at the corner of Central and St. Johns Avenue, in Highland Park on July 6, 2022, as a memorial honoring the victims of the July 4th parade mass shooting.
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Residents deliver flowers and leave chalk messages at a new memorial depicting the seven victims near the Central Avenue crime scene on July 7, 2022 in Highland Park.
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Law enforcement officers on a rooftop respond to the scene of a mass shooting at Highland Park's Independence Day parade on July 4, 2022, on Central Avenue.
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An American flag flies at half-staff the morning after the mass shooting at Highland Park's Independence Day parade on July 4, 2002.
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Victims of the Fourth of July mass shooting are honored at Sunset Woods Park in Highland Park on July 9, 2022, at a community rally that also promoted ideas on gun violence prevention measures.
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Frieda R. and Penny Laing pray together at a growing memorial near the Central Avenue scene on July 6, 2022, two days after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
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Sara Knizhnik, center left, and Leah Hatcher, center right, embrace as victims of the Fourth of July mass shooting are honored at Sunset Woods Park in Highland Park on July 9, 2022, at a community rally that also promoted ideas on gun violence prevention measures.
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A man pulls a child's tricycle from the parade route along Central Avenue in Highland Park on July 5, 2022.
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Bicycles and other items remain at the scene on July 5, 2022, after a mass shooting killed seven people and injured more than 30 others during Highland Park's Fourth of July parade.
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The family of Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, who was killed in the mass shooting during Highland Park's Independence Day parade, mourn the loss of their family member at a growing memorial for the victims at Central and St. Johns avenues in Highland Park on July 8, 2022.
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Pictures of the seven people killed during the Fourth of July parade shooting are displayed at a memorial in Port Clinton Square on July 11, 2022, in Highland Park.
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Two officers stand guard near 2nd and Central avenues at the crime scene of a mass shooting on July 4, 2022, in Highland Park.
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Law enforcement officials work the scene along the Highland Park Independence Day parade route after people fled a mass shooting on July 4, 2022.
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A person lights candles at a memorial set up at Central and St. Johns avenues in Highland Park on July 5, 2022.
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An FBI worker carries bags past the scene of a mass shooting on Central Avenue, July 4, 2022, along the route of Highland Park's Independence Day parade.
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A body is removed from the scene of a mass shooting on July 4, 2022, along Highland Park's Independence Day parade route.
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Law enforcement officers continue to investigate the Central Avenue crime scene, July 7, 2022, in Highland Park.
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Miranda Pomerance, 17, left, hugs Samantha Gomez, 17, while attending a vigil in Everts Park in Highwood on July 6, 2022, for the seven people were killed and at least two dozen who were wounded in Highland Park in a mass shooting during a Fourth of July parade.
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Law enforcement officers evacuate people from a ballet school hours after a mass shooting at Highland Park's Independence Day parade on July 4, 2022, on Central Avenue.
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Messages and roses adorn the podium as victims of the Fourth of July mass shooting are honored at Sunset Woods Park in Highland Park on July 9, 2022, at a community rally that also promoted ideas on gun violence prevention measures.
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Highland Park residents Hillary Heller, right, shares an embrace with her daughter Lucy Heller and friend Shannon Rowe, center, at the corner of Green Bay Road and Central Avenue on July 5, 2022, a day after a mass shooting that resulted in seven dead and more than 30 injured at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
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People visit one of the memorials to the seven people fatally shot on the Fourth of July along Central Avenue on July 10, 2022.
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Parishioners hug after a service at Highland Park Presbyterian Church the day after seven people were killed and at least two dozen were wounded in a mass shooting during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
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A mourner folds her hands in prayer during a community vigil in memory of the victims of the Highland Park Fourth of July parade mass shooting at Market Square, July 7, 2022, in Lake Forest.
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Law enforcement officers load a truck with strollers left along the Central Avenue parade route, July 6, 2022, in Highland Park. Some of the belongings left behind by parade goers are being released back to their owners.
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People's belongings sit along the Highland Park Independence Day parade route after people fled the scene during a mass shooting on July 4, 2022.
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Chantal Maldonado hugs her mother Maria Luisa Rodriguez while attending a vigil on July 6, 2022, in Everts Park in Highwood.
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Two girls comfort each other while watching a news report on July 4, 2022, in Highland Park. Earlier in the day a man shot into the crowd, resulting in the deaths of at least seven people and injuring dozens more at the town's Independence Day parade.
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Victims of the July Fourth mass shooting are honored at Sunset Woods Park in Highland Park on July 9, 2022, at a community rally that also promoted ideas on gun violence prevention measures.
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Members of the public applaud as Lake County State's Attorney Eric Rinehart announces charges against the suspect, Robert "Bobby" E. Crimo III, on July 5, 2022, in Highland Park.
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Rachel Jacoby, left, and Caryn Fliegler of Illinois Moms Demand Action embrace as victims of the Fourth of July mass shooting are honored at Sunset Woods Park in Highland Park on July 9, 2022, at a community rally that also promoted ideas on gun violence prevention measures.
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People light candles at a memorial set up at Central and St. Johns avenues in Highland Park on July 5, 2022, a day after a mass shooting that left seven dead and more than 30 injured at a Fourth of July parade in the north suburb.
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David Staffilino, 8, center, pets a comfort dog after attending an interfaith service at Glencoe Union Church on July 10, 2022, after seven people were killed on the Fourth of July during a mass shooting in Highland Park.
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Flowers and other mementos are left at a memorial, July 7, 2020, for those who died in the mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
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People visit the memorial to the victims near the Central Avenue scene on July 6, 2022, two days after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
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A single rose rests in the snow at the base of a plaque for Nicolás Toledo at a temporary memorial in the rose garden outside Highland Park City Hall on Feb. 18, 2025. The memorial honors the victims of the July 4, 2022, Independence Day shooting. Toledo and six other people were killed and 48 people were injured in the shooting. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)
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