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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The moment you threaten to ‘kill everybody’ in your home, you (SHOULD HAVE) lost all your knife collection priviledges.
Think “Treadstone”.
The liberal’s version of Jason Bourne.
Your analysis proves pot turns people into mass murdering savages.
Brilliant!
And still they sold him a machine gun. Thanks, Charlton.
Did the cops say what his motive was for threatening to kill his whole family?
Does it really matter what his motive was in either case? He should never see the light of day again.
Is it me? Or, does the British media get to the guts of the story long before our own pathetic ‘journalist establishment’ even wakes up?
I understand but the fact still remains
another glaring fact
This reminds me of the Laurie Dann shootings in 1988, which also happened on the North Shore in Winnetka. She was way more bizarre than this guy and yet managed to bypass all of the barriers that should have kept her from buying firearms. Her family got her psychiatric help but were in denial about how disturbed she was. She was given medication that made her psychosis worse. Law enforcement didn’t consider her a suspect in a near-fatal ice pick attack on her ex-husband because they considered the evidence circumstantial. She worked as a babysitter and was reported to have destroyed furniture and hidden raw meat in sofa cushions. The day she shot up a school in Winnetka, killing one child and wounding seven others, she mailed out packages of poisoned food to acquaintances. She was for a while considered a suspect in the unsolved Tylenol Killings. This sick, lost soul shot herself after fleeing the school. There were plenty of people who could have intervened, but...
Is “crazy as hell” not a motive???
“No Motive”
Right...
Idiot.
Just like many mass murderers who came before him Crimo’s motive was to demonize law-abiding 2nd Amendment advocates, and confiscate their right of self defense.
Remember, there are literally hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of mentally ill sick liberal freaks exactly like this pos in this country.
“they knew”....
....which begs the debate about red flags.
Every time I try to read about this I don’t get 2 lines in and I am in Monty Python “Spot the Looney” skit.
Dems wrote the HIPAA laws
No motive?
Looking like a feminine muppet alien grey hybrid with noodle arms and supporting antifa isn’t a motive?
Easy answer; he was not a “MAGA supporter, white supremacist, pro-life, fascist”. Red flag laws only apply to the right. Period.
They took away his knives yet they knew he had firearms and did not take them.
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