(6 Jul 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Waukegan, Illinois - 6 July 2022
1. Officials walk across the street to the site of a news conference
ANNOTATION: The man charged with killing seven people at an Independence Day parade made an initial court appearance Wednesday.
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Waukegan, Illinois - 6 July 2022
2. STILL of Lake County Judge Theodore Potkonjak, left, looking at a video screen as he presides over the initial appearance of Robert Crimo III at the county courthouse
ANNOTATION: Associated Press writer Don Babwin was among those who attended the hearing in Waukegan, Illinois.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Waukegan, Illinois - 6 July 2022
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Don Babwin, Associated Press:
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"Today was Robert Crimo III's first court appearance since he was arrested on the 4th of July. This was what's called a bond hearing, where a judge decides whether to allow him to post bond or order he be held without bond. There wasn't much mystery to it. The prosecutors asked for no bond, and given he's charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, the judge was clearly going to order him held without bond."
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Waukegan, Illinois - 6 July 2022
4. STILL of Potkonjak in court
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Highland Park, Illinois - 6 July 2022
5. Two police officers guard the crime scene
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Waukegan, Illinois - 6 July 2022
6. STILL of Crimo appearing for the court hearing via video feed
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Waukegan, Illinois - 6 July 2022
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Don Babwin, Associated Press:
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"His (Crimo's) appearance in court was via a video feed, where he was standing in the jail somewhere, and his attorney and all the attorneys were also appearing remotely. So, he wasn't in the courtroom at all."
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Highland Park, Illinois - 6 July 2022
8. A person walks past a makeshift memorial near the shooting site
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Waukegan, Illinois - 6 July 2022
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Don Babwin, Associated Press:
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"It lasted maybe five, 10 minutes. The prosecutor read what's called the proffer about what happened on 4th of July and what he's accused of and that kind of thing."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Highland Park, Illinois - 6 July 2022
10. Various of a mourner visiting the scene of the parade shooting
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Waukegan, Illinois - 6 July 2022
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Don Babwin, Associated Press:
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"The big news out of the hearing was the state's attorney said that he (Crimo) admitted to taking part in the shooting. The other thing that was interesting that I don't think had been reported before was that he told investigators that he looked through the (gun) sights, he aimed and he fired and he kept firing."
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Waukegan, Illinois - 6 July 2022
12. STILL of Crimo via video feed
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Waukegan, Illinois - 6 July 2022
13. The news conference ends
STORYLINE:
The man charged with killing seven people at an Independence Day parade made an initial court appearance Wednesday.
Associated Press writer Don Babwin was among those who attended the hearing in Waukegan, Illinois.
According to Babwin, prosecutors say the suspect, Robert Crimo III, confessed to police that he unleashed a hail of bullets from a rooftop in suburban Chicago.

The parade shooting left affluent Highland Park, home to about 30,000 people near the Lake Michigan shore, reeling. More than two-dozen people were wounded, some critically, and hundreds of marchers, parents and children fled in a panic.

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