Robert E Crimo III, 22, was arrested by police on Monday as a “person of interest” following the July 4 killings in Highland Park that also injured 36 people. It has since been revealed that on May 27 – three days after the murder of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde – father Bob Crimmo’s Twitter account liked a tweet that read: “Protect the Second Amendment, as the your life depends on it. “ The Second Amendment is the part of the US constitution used to protect the right to bear arms. According to his Twitter page, deli owner Mr. Crimo, who ran for mayor in Highland Park in April 2019, follows only one account — an archived account of former President Donald Trump’s tweets. Robert Crimo was arrested after the Chicago shooting (Robert Crimo/Reuters) There are also seemingly no tweets from his public Twitter account, which appears to have only responded to a video of Trump holding a press conference about the coronavirus pandemic in May 2020. He was defeated by the city’s current mayor, Nancy Rotering, who ran her liberal campaign in part on a gun control platform. (Twitter @CrimoBob) His son was arrested seven hours after a gunman perched on a rooftop opened fire on flag-waving families and children riding bicycles in Monday’s Independence Day parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park. The gunman climbed onto the roof of a business using a ladder in an alley, police said. Police identified Crimo as a person of interest in the shooting and said he should be considered armed and dangerous. Hours later, they announced he had been taken into custody after a short foot chase near Lake Forest, about six miles from the scene of the massacre. Crimo, 22, goes by the stage name ‘Awake the Rapper’ and has more than 16,000 listeners a month on his Spotify page (Robert Crimo/Reuters) Crimo goes by the nickname Bobby and is an amateur rapper. He had reportedly uploaded a series of videos online several months before the shooting, filled with violent images and depictions of mass murder. He goes by the stage name ‘Awake the Rapper’ and has more than 16,000 listeners a month on his Spotify page with a net worth of $100,000 (£82,645). A recent video posted by Crimo on YouTube appeared to show the aftermath of a school shooting with him dressed in an American flag. A child’s bicycle was left behind in the wake of the mass shooting in the affluent Chicago suburb (Max Herman/Reuters) In 2020, he was pictured attending a Trump rally dressed as the main character from ‘Where’s Waldo?’ In another photo on Twitter, he was seen wrapped in a Trump flag as a cape. He was also photographed wearing an FBI hat and liked a video of Joe Biden. Police said they did not know the motive for the shooting in Highland Park. The injured ranged in age from eight to 85, including four or five children. Nicolas Toledo, a 70-year-old man, was the first victim identified late Monday by his family. Law enforcement investigates the area of a shooting at a 4th of July parade on July 4, 2022 in Highland Park, Illinois (Getty Images) Another victim was Jacki Sundheim, a teacher at a synagogue in Highland Park. The North Bank Church of Israel confirmed her death in an email to colleagues. At least one of the dead was a Mexican national, a senior Mexican foreign ministry official confirmed on Twitter. An earlier version of this story incorrectly said the Uvdale shooting was on May 27. Additional reports from agencies.
