The man who opened fire on a parade in Illinois on July 4 left the gun he used near the scene of the crime, according to prosecutors.
Robert Crimo III, 21, was captured on surveillance video walking in an alley toward the back of a store in Highland Park just before the shooting, prosecutors said in a court document. A witness spotted a person on top of the building with a gun and saw muzzle flashes soon after as the person began shooting.
Immediately after the shots were fired, the surveillance footage showed Crimo running west in the same alley while carrying a black bag over his shoulder. As he ran, an object wrapped in red cloth fell out of the bag, Lake County Major Crimes Task Force spokesman Chris Covelli told reporters after Crimo was arraigned on July 6. The object was the rifle, determined to be a Smith and Wesson M&P semi-automatic rifle, used in the shooting….