Highland Park Mayor: Gun Was “Legally Obtained”

CNN reports:

Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering said while she didn’t know where the gun used in Monday’s mass shooting in her city came from, she told NBC, “I do know that it was legally obtained.”

Rotering said she had known the shooting suspect, Robert E. Crimo III, as a child. “I know him as somebody who was a Cub Scout when I was the Cub Scout leader,” the mayor told NBC. “He was just a little boy.”

Rotering said the focus in the discussion about the shooting should be about “the fact that there are weapons of war on our streets, that people can legally obtain these and then take out dozens of people.”

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“The injuries … those are wartime injuries. Those are what are seen in victims of war, not victims at a parade,” Dr. David Baum, who treated victims in the Highland Park shooting on Monday, tells @CNN. Baum said some of the dead were “blown up.” https://t.co/WprKKde9wj

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