Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering said, “Our community has been terrorized by an act of violence that’s shaken us to our core.” Both Illinois State Police and the Lake County Sheriff’s office responded to the shooting, according to their Twitter posts. Police called on residents to “shelter in place” during the search for “an active shooter incident.” Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli told reporters, “It does appear that he was shooting from a roof.” Police have cordoned off Highland Park in hopes of capturing the shooter. He described the shooter as being white, between the ages of 18 and 20, with long black hair. Chris O’Neill told the media a rifle had been located and that a massive search for the shooter is underway. Officials from nearby Evanston and Deerfield canceled their Fourth of July events due to the Highland Park mass shooting. “I believe it is now time for many of us who are faith leaders to take time and pray and to call on God as a community to be with these families who are grieving at this time,” said Jakes. Paul Jakes was equally upset telling the Chicago Crusader, “It’s a very sad day on this 4 th of July to know that in Highland Park during a parade there have been several killed and injured due to a shooter who on this day caused a lot of dread, fear, anxiety, anger and grief to many who are devastated because of the shooting. We can only hope that America will wake up to this evil in our system that must end,” said Rabbi Gordon.
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We are not free from hatred, and we are not free from the scourge of the pandemic of gun violence and death. Our nation has been ripped apart through senseless acts of violence on a day when we should be celebrating a national unity of independence and freedom. Rabbi Gordon told the Chicago Crusader, “This is a great tragedy for the community of Highland Park and the Chicago area and our nation. “We hope this will serve as another reminder that we will either learn to live together or die apart,” Bishop Grant said.
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These cases become more horrendous in that the perpetrators are given license and landscape to continue this carnage of violence in areas that once were believed to be immune if not out of the range of these kinds of violent acts,” Bishop Grant stated.īishop Grant called for stricter laws banning access to guns both state and federal and the rendering appropriate sentences “for persons who engage in these kinds of acts where vulnerable seniors and children are at risk who become victims of this degree of violence.” “This shooting demonstrates what we must have strict laws banning access to guns and automatic weapons. Jakes, pastor of the New Tabernacle of Faith Baptist Church, stunned and angry that once again innocent people are the victims of easy access to guns. The Highland Park mass shooting left Bishop Grant, Rabbi Gordon, who is on sabbatical from Congregation Sukkat Shalom, and Rev. The shocker of these July 4 th mass shootings happened Monday morning in Highland Park, a wealthy community during the July 4 th parade allegedly by a white man between the ages of 18 and 20 with black, long hair who fired a high-capacity rifle from a rooftop. It’s also a time to remove the “evil” in this system that allows a steady flow of guns, Rabbi Simon Gordon said, and a need for prayer called for by Rev. The shootings should be a “wake up call” to America that it is time for stricter gun laws, according to Bishop Tavis Grant, national field director for the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
On the 246 th birthday of America’s celebration of its independence so far there have been three mass shootings, Kansas, Missouri, 2 people were shot in separate shootings and 4 wounded, Highland Park, 6 killed, 24 wounded, and Chicago with the shooting of five men including a 17-year-old at the Parkway Gardens, 65 th and King Drive bringing the total of those shot over the holiday in Chicago so far to 51, according to police. With three mass shootings happening on the Fourth of July including the killing of six people and wounding of 24 others in the Highland Park, 5 at the Parkway Gardens in Chicago and 4 in Kansas, Missouri should be a wakeup call to end the pandemic of gun violence and “the evil” and carnage it is causing innocent people including children and the elderly, black and Jewish leaders said Monday. Rabbi Gordon: “America must wake up and end this evil”
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