The parents of Highland Park shooter Robert 'Bobby' Crimo III, 21, have finally spoken out - and branded their sons actions a 'tragedy' - after it emerged the shooter's dad helped him buy a gun months after cops confiscated his knife collection.
Bob Crimo and his wife, Denise, said in a brief statement: 'We are all mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, and this is a terrible tragedy for many families, the victims, the paradegoers, the community, and our own. Our hearts, thoughts, and prayers go out to everybody.'
But it emerged on Tuesday that Bob Crimo had sponsored his killer son's application for a gun permit in 2020, even after the murderer had threatened to kill himself and his family.
In September 2019, Illinois State Police received a 'clear and present danger' report related to Robert Crimo's family after he threatened to kill himself and his family. They removed knives from the property, but later returned those, The Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Crimo, who was 19 at the time, was not arrested. He was two years under the legal age minimum to apply for the firearm owner’s identification (FOID) card needed to legally obtain a weapon.
But despite the murder-suicide threats, Crimo's father sponsored him for a FOID card in December 2019, and it was approved a month later, in January 2020.
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