
insisted that his son’s crimes were not motivated by hate and noted that a relative of one of his lifelong friends was injured in the shooting.

I think there’s mental illness there, obviously. You know you have consequences for actions. “I want a long sentence,” Crimo said of his 21-year-old son. While the father said he’s fully supportive of his son and will continue attending all of his court hearings, he’s “furious” over the tragedy. Daniel William McKnight for NY Post A woman prays at a memorial for the victims of the Fourth of July mass shooting. Denise Crimo, mother of Robert Crimo III, walks outside her home on Wednesday. “I’ve been here my whole life, and I’m gonna stay here, hold my head up high, because I didn’t do anything wrong.”Ĭrimo Jr., who’s been telling reporters he isn’t the shooter’s dad but instead a caretaker for the home, said he and the suspect’s mother are “devastated” and “floored” over the bloodshed. “They make me like I groomed him to do all this,” he said of critics. What we know about Robert Crimo’s social media.‘I’m deeply, deeply sorry’: Uncle of shooter apologizes.Toddler who lost both parents in shooting was found under his dad’s body.More coverage on the Highland Park parade shooting “You know, he drove there, he ordered them, he picked them up, they did his background check on each one,” said Crimo Jr., insisting he had “zero” involvement in the massacre. Surveillance footage captured Robert Crimo III walking down the street in what appears to be women’s clothing. “He bought everything on his own, and they’re registered to him,” the dad said of his son’s weapons. said he decided to sponsor his son’s firearm owner’s identification card - which allowed the young man to buy the AR-15 used in the attack - because he thought Crimo III was going to use the weapon to go to the shooting range. “You know, I used to collect coins and baseball cards,” the dad said.Ĭrimo Jr. told The Post on Wednesday.Ĭops mum on possible charges for Highland Park parade shooter Robert Crimo’s family

The incident, which led police to briefly confiscate a sword, dagger and 15 knives from the shooter’s home, was just a “childish outburst,” and the knives were “just a collection,” Crimo Jr. Robert Crimo III was labeled a “clear and present danger” after an incident in which he threatened to kill his whole family in 2019. The dad sponsored the application three months after his son was labeled a “clear and present danger” by authorities for threatening to kill relatives in 2019.
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The father, a onetime local mayoral candidate who used to run a neighborhood sandwich shop, has faced a wave of criticism for sponsoring his son’s gun license application, which allowed Crimo III to buy four guns, including his alleged slay weapon, before age 21. and his estranged wife, Denise, had retained him in the wake of their son’s arrest. Kelly in the fallen singing superstar’s federal sex-trafficking case out of Brooklyn, announced that Crimo Jr. On Tuesday, Steven Greenberg, who previously represented R. … Like, did he have a psychiatric break or something?” the father said of his son. tells The Post he thinks his son, alleged Highland Park shooter Robert Crimo III, should get a long prison sentence. The father said his son added, “People like that … to amp up the people that want to ban all guns.” Robert Crimo Jr. “He goes, ‘Yeah, that guy is an idiot.’ That’s what he said!” the dad recalled his son saying of the Denmark shooter.

Kelly’s lawyers to battle claims that he helped his mentally disturbed kid buy guns - said that the night before Monday’s shooting, he and son Robert Crimo III discussed the 22-year-old Danish man who shot and killed three people at a mall outside Copenhagen on Sunday. – The dad of the accused Fourth of July parade killer told The Post on Wednesday that his son talked about a mass shooting in Denmark the night before allegedly launching his own massacre - and the dad washed his hands of any guilt over how the suspect got his gun. Highland Park shooter attempted suicide as early as 2016: report Billy Corgan announces benefit concert for Highland Park shooting victimsĨ-year-old Highland Park victim faces setbackīiden tells heckling dad of Parkland victim ‘Sit down!’ at White House event
