Samira Puskar

2 months ago | today.com | Samira Puskar |David K. Li

By and WAUKEGAN, Ill. — The man who opened fire at a Fourth of July parade near Chicago in 2022, killing seven people and leaving behind an “ocean of grief,” will spend the rest of his life behind bars with no possibility of parole, a judge said Thursday. Robert E. “Bobby” Crimo III, 24, was a no-show in court Thursday and declined to make a statement to the court, his lawyer said. It did not appear that any relatives of the killer’s family attended the sentencing.

2 months ago | nbcnews.com | Samira Puskar |David K. Li

WAUKEGAN, Ill. — The young man who opened fire at a Fourth of July parade near Chicago in 2022, killing seven people and leaving behind an "ocean of grief," will spend the rest of his life behind bars with no possibility of parole, a judge said Thursday. Robert E. “Bobby” Crimo III, 24, was a no-show in court on Thursday and declined to make a statement to the court, his lawyer said. It did not appear that any relatives of the killer's family attended the sentencing.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Samira Puskar

WAUKEGAN, Ill. — The man who opened fire at a Fourth of July parade near Chicago in 2022, killing seven people and leaving behind "oceans of grief," will spend the rest of his life behind bars with no possibility of parole, a judge said Thursday. Robert “Bobby” Crimo III, 24, was a no-show for the sentencing hearing that began Wednesday, and he declined to make a statement to the court, his lawyer said.

2 months ago | nbcnews.com | Samira Puskar |David K. Li |Ava Kelley

WAUKEGAN, Ill. — Witnesses of the 2022 mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in a Chicago suburb emotionally relived the massacre at the gunman's sentencing hearing on Wednesday — even though Robert "Bobby" E. Crimo III did not show his face in court. Crimo, 24, pleaded guilty last month to 69 counts, including 21 counts of murder, for the shooting that killed seven people and wounded nearly 50 more at a July 4, 2022, parade about 30 miles outside of Chicago.

2 months ago | nbcnews.com | Evan Bush |Maggie Vespa |Samira Puskar |Kathryn Prociv

By , and The National Weather Service’s reduction in weather balloon launches left forecasters on shaky ground last week as the central U.S. got hammered with hail and tornadoes, outside meteorologists told NBC News. Severe storms brought dozens of tornadoes to the central U.S. starting Thursday, snarling Easter weekend travel. Twisters were reported in Oklahoma, Texas and Nebraska, and the storm system brought several inches of snow to parts of Colorado and baseball-sized hail to Wisconsin.