Jeff Leon, an attendee of Highland Park’s 4th of July parade, said he heard what “sounded like a firecracker going off inside a large metal trash can” as he was sitting across the street. Bluemercury store.
Leon said he could hear about 20 or 30 explosions before looking to his right and seeing police moving and people falling, which is when he and his wife took off.
Leon and his wife were at the parade because their 14-year-old twin boys were marching with the high school football team, but the boys weren’t out yet when the gunfire broke out, he told Victor. CNN’s Blackwell.
“We will try to catch them,” Leon explained, adding that “after about 10 minutes of duck and hide, duck and hide, everyone calmly left the scene.”
Leon and his wife said they saw a man “with an extremely deep bullet wound clearly grazing the right side of his head above his temple”, and that’s when they both realized it wasn’t a firecracker or a firecracker. fireworks explode, which is it is actually a shooting.
Leon said a shooting in the Highland Park community in Illinois was “unthinkable.”
