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.
“The court finds he’s irrevocably depraved,” Judge Victoria Rossetti said as she handed down the maximum sentence. “He is beyond any rehabilitation.”
Crimo pleaded guilty last month to charges in the mass shooting that wounded nearly 50 more people in addition to the seven deaths.
The July 4, 2022, parade in Highland Park was about 30 miles outside Chicago.
