Posted on 07/05/2022 3:06:11 PM PDT by Morgana
Highland Park shooter Bobby Crimo was questioned by police twice in 2019 including once after threatening to 'kill everyone' and another after he threatened suicide, but was never arrested.
Crimo is now in custody awaiting charges for the massacre yesterday. Police at first said he was not known to them but on Tuesday, they revealed he was interviewed twice by authorities.
The first was in April 2019 a week after he threatened to kill himself. The second was in September 2019, after he threatened to 'kill everyone' in his family.
Police recovered 19 knives and a dagger from his home but he was not arrested.
Instead, he was able to turn 21 and buy two assault rifles in Illinois, along with three other types of gun. It remains unclear why the two previous incidents were not flagged when he legally purchased the weapons.
Chris Covelli of the Lake County Sheriff's Office disclosed the prior incidents at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon.
In the April 2019 incident, 'an individual contacted Highland Park department a week after learning of him attempting to suicide. It was a delayed report.
'They responded to the residence, spoke to him, his parents and the matter was being handled with the mental health profession. There was no law enforcement action to be taken.
'In September 2019, a family remember reported that he said he was going to "kill everyone" and that he had a collection of knives. They responded and took 16 knives and a dagger from his home.
'There was no probable cause to arrest and no complaints assigned by the victims. They did notify the Illinois State Police.'
Crimo is also accused of 'sizing up' the Central Avenue Synagogue in Highland Park, Illinois, according to the Times of Israel.
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BTW do we still have the "Sword Ping" here on FR?
Once again they knew
The edict has come down from on high to remove all obstacles in the way of every psycho who threatens mass-murder.
Mass-murder => crisis => power
Two scenarios:
1) Suicidal freak kills himself alone.
2) He lives on, dresses as a woman and murders 7 people and injures dozens more in July, 2022.
Just sayin.’
He’s a pot smoking schizo, just like Laughner, just like Holmes.
https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/schizophrenia-marijuana-link
He’s also Jewish, and many of the shooters were Jewish with access to pot.
Yes, they knew he’d be the PERFECT recruit for another mass shooting.
Once again, they knew, and once again, we “rely” on the UK Daily Mail to report the story.
but was never arrested.
and spent the next 3 years being trained by the FBI for this mission right?
Please explain after yet another glaring example, why anyone would trust LEOs?
“ Once again they knew”
And what should they have done ? Specifically with this evil kid?
If a kid makes threats about killing people, how long are they to be detained ?
Easy to bash cops, but hard to give specifics on exactly how long to watch them and stay within legal limits.
The local yokel “authorities” screwed the pooch in Uvalde and Highland Park and they want to take firearms away from innocent law abiding Americans. They can stop these killings when somebody sees something, DO FRIGGIN’ SOMETHING! “Commons Sense” gun control doesn’t work when the politicians and local officials don’t have any friggin’ common sense and don’t enforce the laws already on the books. More laws are always a “good idea” until somebody has to enforce them.
This is another failure of government. If everyone at this parade was carrying, this loon would have never opened fire.
He would have pissed his pants the first time somebody shot back.
Interesting that Highland Park was a Gun Free Zone.
As far as I can tell, Bobby Crimo and his family are Italian.
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Drugs, Sexual Identity issues, Stoner, and I just read an article saying he was constantly posting on Social Media at age 11. Hip-Hop.
Wonder why these shootings are getting more frequent.
The Antifa helmets he wears are illustrative of his state of mind.
His motive is that because law enforcement failed to bring criminal charges against him for his previous threats to kill people, as well as his being in possession of a collection of knives, and a sword, he figured he had a green light to finally do so.
If you see something say something?
This has become meaningless in regards to law enforcement.
I will bet a years salary he was on some sort of antipsychotic, antidepressant drugs THEY ALL ARE!! Pharmaceutical companies have absolutely no investigation into any of this!! These drugs and violent video games completely screw these kids heads up!! They have NO SENSE of reality and killing seems normal to them!!
“Red Flag” laws purport to stop this type of person from buying a firearm. Why wasn’t his information entered into their handy-dandy database to stop him from buying a firearm?
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