Highland Park Mayor: Robert Crimo III’s weapon was ‘legally obtained’

Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering advised NBC’s "Right now Exhibit" that the weapon suspect Robert Crimo III applied in the lethal Fourth of July parade capturing was "legally obtained" — and now the U.S. desires to re-look at gun laws in its aftermath. 

The Illinois mayor mentioned she is waiting around Tuesday for prosecutors to file prices from the 22-year-old accused of killing at the very least six and wounding much more than 30 in yesterday’s attack.  

"This tragedy by no means ought to have arrived on our doorsteps and as a tiny city, all people knows any person that was influenced by this right," Rotering said. 

The mayor added that she was Crimo’s cub scout chief as a baby, describing him as "just a tiny boy." 

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Robert E. Crimo, 22, has been discovered as the suspect in the July 4th parade assault in Highland Park, Illinois in which at least 6 people today had been killed. He was taken into police custody hrs right after the taking pictures.   (Highland Park Law enforcement Office)

"It’s just one of all those issues where by you phase again, and you say ‘What transpired?'" Rotering claimed. "How did any person become this indignant, this hateful to then acquire it out on harmless individuals?" 

Rotering explained to the "Now Exhibit" that she did not know in which the gun that was employed in the assault arrived from, but noted that it was "lawfully obtained." 

"I think at some issue the country demands to have a discussion about these weekly gatherings involving the murder of dozens of people with lawfully-obtained guns," Rotering continued. "If that is what our legislation stand for, then I think we require to re-take a look at the legal guidelines." 

Law enforcement research soon after a mass taking pictures at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade in downtown Highland Park, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, on Monday, July 4. (G3 Box News/Nam Y. Huh)

Rotering also referred to as the capturing an "completely devastating blow" to her community. 

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A law enforcement officer reacts as he walks in downtown Highland Park, a suburb of Chicago, on Monday, July 4. (G3 Box News Newsroom)

"I would instead target on why do we as a country allow this to transpire with these kinds of regularity? Why do we say, ‘Oh alright, that was that’? I can’t notify you how quite a few mayors I listened to from yesterday, mayors that I certainly am informed of for the reason that of their possess tragedies," she included. 

"This is unbelievable to me that this is an appropriate component of who we are as a nation," Rotering also stated.