The man accused of carrying out a mass shooting in Illinois on July 4 discussed a shooting the night prior, his father said in a new interview after authorities said they’re opening a criminal investigation into the dad.
Robert Crimo Jr., the father, told the New York Post that he and his son, Robert Crimo III, talked the evening before the Independence Day shooting about the mass shooting in Denmark that had just taken place.
“He goes, ‘Yeah, that guy is an idiot.’ That’s what he said!” Crimo Jr. said.
“People like that … [commit mass shootings] to amp up the people that want to ban all guns,” Crimo III also said, according to his father….