Video From Apartment Captured Shooting At Fourth Of July Parade In Illinois - NBC News

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NBC News' Isa Gutierrez shares new video that a witness shot from his apartment on the parade route in Highland Park, Illinois, that shows gun shots and people running from the scene. Includes updates from officials, 6 dead and 23 injured, many serious or critical. Aired on 07/04/2022.

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1. Whoa.

HEARING that gunfire is much more unnerving than I expected! Reading about it and even hearing people describe it on the news doesn't even come close, for me at least. I feel like I've been hearing forever about how fast those AR type rifles can spray bullets, so I thought I knew. But hearing it on that video made my blood run cold.

This whole story has hit me harder on a personal level than any other shooting story in quite a while. I don't live near Highland Park, but I have been there a few times, and I know what a nice, quiet, peacful place it is normally. I'm familiar with that whole area along Lake Michigan, north of Chicago and I feel more of an attachment to it than I ever realized before.

I'd better shut up before I embarrass myself. Uvalde was MUCH worse, both in numbers and the ages of the victims, and it's not like Highland Park is my hometown or something. But we don't get to decide how we're going to feel about something like this, you know? It just happens, and we feel what we feel.

This crap has to stop. We have GOT to get those killing machines off our streets, some way, somehow. JFC.