His dad, who sponsored the firearm application, thought it was up to the police to vet his son? Are you kidding me?

“He had a a childish outburst and said he’d kill the family, so I thought that would be a good time to get him an assault rifle” Moronic.

The "father" is completely detached, irresponsible, deluded, and culpable.

His lack of empathy in his voice. His lack of accountability and saying it’s all on the background checks what kind of heartless and brainless parent . After he threatened to kill family members you sponsor his hun ownership. You are going to be hit with charges !

If your son is having "childish outbursts", do you think that it's wise to sponsor his gun permit? Really???? Someone who has the emotional lability of a child should not be handling guns, let alone own them.

The father needs to be charged. He is unbelievable! Shame on him

Remember this man, the father of this gunman, was running for mayor. I dont think he is well equipped to be mayor if he cant protect the community from his own murderous spawn.

Sponsoring a gun application, as a Father, AFTER the son threatens to kill self and family? What shame on them. This is disgusting. Don't replace love for your son, with a firearm

Shooter's father: "need to come up with new laws, guidelines" I think there are already guidelines in place around not being a shitty parent. The only thing more enraging than this man's blatant disregard for the very clear signs of an unhinged child when signing the consent form, is his abhorrent absolvement of any responsibility in essentially facilitating this mass murder. I believe he should share the charges in this case.

Father: "He said he was going to kill the family.. I thought it was just a silly childish outburst." Father of the year, thinks its a brilliant idea to sponsor his child-that has no emotional self regulation or self control (proven by his threats of murdering family) firearms application. Yea this kids Dad is not the sharpest.... likely why son -his "junior" is an idiot.

Father doesn’t regret helping his son buy those guns? The whole burden of vetting the son lays on the shoulders of authorities?? I don’t effing think so! What little compassion I had felt for the father is gone! He needs to be charged with enabling the son to become a mass murderer.

To the father: when your son threatens to kills family members, that is NOT normal. You should have taken that seriously!

NO FUCKING ACCOUNTABILITY!!! I SEE WHERE THE SON GETS IT!

Is the FATHER SERIOUS. He is an accomplice. Get the hell outta here you knew your son was unstable and helped him get guns. Well buddy you need to go to jail too.!!

The father is using his errant son as his own personal weapon, his own instrument of revenge. Papa is in total denial.

This father ran for mayor of Highland Park yet blames officials for not vetting his son for a gun card. ? ?

What we need, Bob Crimo, is communication. Did you question your Son at all? Did you ask him why he wanted a gun? What kind of gun? And what he planned to do with said gun? I mean, come on, this kid was NOT into target shooting or hunting.

The father should be held accountable.

Of course the dad doesn't want to get charged but is totally is his fault too smh

The father should be held accountable for sponsoring the weapon when he knew the son had a suicidal past.

There would have been no guns without the father's help. He needs to be in prison alongside his son.

The father thinks a teenager threatening to kill family members is normal?!? Not in any family I've ever known!

The father is responsible for teaching his kid the father is guilty as well

Whoever sold that guy a gun needs to be sharing a cell with him. One look at him tells me this guy shouldn’t even possess a squirt gun

My GOD parents, do your job no matter how old are your kids. Your title of parents are forever once you have children like it or not 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️. Talk to them!!!

Who buys a gun for a child when you know they have tried to commit suicide and have threatened family with knives? What world did that seem sane to you?

Here we go again with a parent who blame others for his sons actions! He had major red flags! Cops were called many times and even took knives from the home that his kid had! And suicide attempts! And turns around and helps him get gun's! These are the kind of parents we need to worry about! And sadly their all over! Such stupidity!!!

PARENTS should vet their kids first and foremost! Dad dropped the ball and wants to blame others and not himself. SMDH 😠

“There needs to be laws in place” Yes, laws that put parents like you in jail.

Not missed ignored by all the adults in his life. 😡

His dad is like we all need to come together someone needs to tell him yeah that's what people were doing right before his son opened fire with an automatic weapon.

I find the father's demeanor very disturbing. His mannerisms and speech are very detached and removed from this event as if he were talking about a perfect stranger. Never once did he express sadness, shock, distress, remorse, or any kind of emotion at all! All I heard was someone trying to deflect any kind of connection or responsibility, just washing his hands of it and putting the blame on authorities and the background checks???? There is a way deeper issue with this family than meets the eye, I'm thinking. Skeletons in closets eventually come out, I'm sure this family has more than a few. This is just one more horrendous scene of mass shootings added to the ever-growing pile of life-altering tragedies being played out across the USA. Heart Breaking 💔😢

No accountability from dad...apple does not fall far from that ignorant tree

Sorry, but anyone who looks like that clearly has a severe malfunction.

🤔 That father! I can imagine how the son turned out like this! The son was screaming for help and the father says "🙄 It was a childish outburst. 🤔 Did he try to commit suicide? I hadn't heard about that!" And *this* man is a legislator, making decisions that affect constituents lives!!!

It's the same situation over and over again, missed this, missed that, should have did this should have done that.🙄

No Warning? What about all the blades and threat to kill all?

They're really glamorizing this dude.

Him and his parents are all responsible.

Charge the father to the fullest extent

The media acts like this could have been stopped. They can’t comprehend. A criminal will act.

Threatening to kill anyone let alone family members in the heat of anger doesn’t sound like the actions of someone who should be in possession of a gun, sir. Basic common sense.

One look and your instincts scream at you.. this person is not freaking right in the head! Just look at him for crying out loud. What drugs was he on, psych meds, Crack, what? Its something for sure.

“whether it’s new laws, guidelines - to prevent this from happening again.” 😡 how about do some parenting. He stated he doesn’t regret his decision to sponsor his son for a firearm application. This clown 🤡 ran for a political position 🤦‍♂️

Parents these days are disgusting and they raise their children to be just as disgusting... Failing as a parent and don't wish to do better.

Okay, while I do think that the father missing all these obvious clues is TOTALLY FUCKING RESPONSIBLE for this monster(after the knives were confiscated the father had them returned saying they were his), and thinking, hey, "My kid had the cops called on him and knives were confiscated, I thought co signing his need for guns wasn't at all in any way a flag", I still think that the cops should have done some "preventive policing", which they did not. IF YOU NEED A GUN....YOU MIGHT NEED TO TAKE A MENTAL HEALTH EVALUATION.

I pray that Dad does get charged and when he does get charged he deserves as much sympathy as what he has given

I have a bad feeling about the parents... I suspect the investigation will reveal either : prior knowledge OR evidence that the father actively antagonized his son via. neglect, abuse, etc.

The father called the threats against his family “childish outbursts,” then signs for said child to buy weapons.

So tragic all around. As a former suicide crisis counselor, I know how powerful denial is in family and friends in the face of suicide ideation, and obviously of evidence of potential violence towards others. Compounded by the inability of law enforcement to act in the face of the percieved "rights" of people or just indifference. The parents of this man were obviously in total denial, and still are. That father made no mention of all the people who were killed or wounded by his son. I won't even get into the ridiculous availability of guns that allow an angry man to obtain them to randomly kill innocent people.

The parents sound nonchalant, unbothered.. and that’s just how they raised him, carelessly.

to be honest, I think this shows how background checks are not enough and that there will always be people who fall through the cracks and that is why we need to have a flat out ban of ar-15 style weapons or at least have the age limit to be 21 to buy them. Also crazy to have parents to be allowed to vouch for kid on application, most parents believe that their kid is incapable of doing something like this until the kid does it.

The things I’m hearing these days have me thinking I’m going crazy!! No wonder the doctor increased my anxiety medication dosage!! I’m the one losing while all this crap is going on!!

Why would the father help him purchase these weapons if he was under age 🤔

The dad should be responsible that's like if someone buys a felon a gun. His dad knew his son was mental case.

The rapper son: Shoot shoot shoot, kill kill kill. Rap: Shoot shoot shoot kill kill kill. Rappers father: I don’t know if he’s reciting lyrics, messing around or being serious.

Todays parents are more interested in being their kids best friend rather than being their kids best parent.

So if you buy your adult children a vehicle you’re accountable as well for their actions behind the wheel? Ridiculous.

A father who takes no responsibility for his parenting is pretty much what I expected to find here.

yo wtf why are these news outlets making a fucking documentary on this guy ? My god i never seen a more famous shooter in a long time

When everyone think it’s someone else responsibility everything falls apart. More laws? Be a better father. Even the laws and the people who enforce them will fail to prevent (like you did) every tragedy.

He's a father of a young male adult, who is being charged with various serious crimes. Instead, of stepping back a bit, accepting his role of not being a good judge of decision making; he's trying to seek sympathy/empathy(wow is me/ I didn't see this coming). When clearly he and countless others saw 'the signs,' and failed to open their eyes and realize that their son/family member was un-well. Instead of trying to deflect from the real issue, avoid it and not try to help. Now mind you, some young adults resist, and we understand. But when they are a risk to themselves and others, it's about safety regardless to our connections. He could have counseled his son about getting some mental health services, and simply deny him. But I guess, he chose to co-sign for his troubled son's to be able to purchase a weapon resulting in the deaths of 7 innocent people, injuring many others and causing public traumatic carnage/mayeh. I'm a parent and from their childhood, I have told my kids: " I'm ok with your career path, you choose(janitor, teacher,etc), if you go to college or not I'm ok, but I'm NOT okay with you all growing up not being a decent human beings hurting others, then I'm part of the problem! I can't, won't and don't accept/tolerate that!

WTH. MAKING EXCUSES FOR HIS MURDERING SON

What a gem of a father! 😑 Some accountability coming your way, sir...

I'm all for parents being responsible for their children until the age of 18. With a little more parenting, and the threat of going to jail, they will pay a little more attention to their kids.

Convict the father too!!

It doesn't matter how innocent and unknowing his father was people are always going to wrongfully blame him. It's hypocritical for people to place blame on the father all while most who say this probably have crazy kids at home that they call "normal".

His dad... sounds eerily like my dad with those excuses to the cops. We know this guy owns a business, so he has experience with public messaging... Get him... Book him Lou!

Why is anyone allowed to buy all those types of guns ,that is the big question in my book, also as a parent why would you sponsor your child to by guns .

In a sense I feel empathy for the kid having a parent like that, normal dads don't have multiple domestic violence calls, he clearly needed help and was let down. This is what happens in extreme crisis, urge to harm yourself or others. So many points people could have done things and as a father that's your job to know whats going on.

The family in the same house hold should be held accountable. They are the first ones to know what kind of person they got living there with them. They are also the ones that cover up all the dirt an pretend a pretty pic to the world. They should be punished for this.

I have no doubt that the parents of children who participated in this parade will do a great job of explaining this tragedy to them and I hope that next year they will continue to join in to honor the victims of this senseless act of violence. God bless!!

Electric chair big time....

I'd like to know if this kid was taking psychiatric medication. It's no excuse for murder and no doubt it was the guns that killed people but I'm willing to be the parents let him take pills thinking that would solve his emotional outbursts. SSRIs are known to cause homicidal and suicidal thoughts particularly in young adults. It's annoying that the news never reports what medication they were prescribed. And anyone on psychiatric drugs has no business being near a firearm.

The families need to sue the father since he knew his son’s warning signs….

Can you believe Dad ran for mayor in 2019??! Raise your damn son, dude! And mom is definitely out of her mind. They didn't do their child, the murderer, any favors.

Sounds like someone is just passing the Buck! Law enforcement needs to do more to monitor people like this not Law abiding gun owners!

Wait wait wait!! How does a parent not know his child tried to commit suicide!! OMG I couldn’t get over it if one of my twins tried to take himself or herself out!! Where was the father? Something isn’t right here?

His father is in total denial… terrible...

What’s freaky is as we pay attention to this a new shooter is getting motivated and more “suicidal” to hurt others

The main reason this killer fell through the gaps for red flag is because of his skin color

A law needs to be passed holding parents who raise criminally insane youth, accountable, mabie then we will find an end to this type of violence. If you think stricter gun laws are going to make any ounce of a difference, check out the shop owner in N.Y., who killed a man with a sharp screwdriver.

Nobody should own firearms before 21

His dads a politician what do you expect. He has no idea what's going on with his own son both of them living with his dad. Grandpa probably would beat both their asses if he could. This guy wanted to be your mayor. Let that sink in. He wants to know what someone else is gonna do now. Sheesh

It is vastly unfortunate that he, that the young man gave himself, his life, his time in his life to doing anything, something such as the attack at the parade, that he couldn't have found his way to a different path, a productive, promising path of progress. It is so heartbreaking for the families, the community, the people impacted.

"history of allegations" doesnt trump our rights the 2nd amendment

Failed as a father, failed as a human being. Cannot even take responsibility for his mistakes.

Get his sick face off the screen! He has hurt enough!

He was trump supporter

Trump 2024!!!! God bluss presiden Trump!!!!!

Thank god i dont live in a place where i have to live in a constant dread of being shot right after leaving my apartment

Mr. Crimo, it's called parenting! Perhaps if you opened your eyes and paid attention to your son, you would stop denying you had no clue he was capable of murder. What parent endorses assault weapons for a teenager? When you were signing a permit for an assault weapon, I was buying my teenage sons a laptop or a new cell phone! And, where is one ounce of remorse for what happened, especially for those parents in their 30's who left their 2 year old toddler an orphan? You say the background check failed, but YOU are the one who knew your son better than those conducting a background check! It's responsibility, honesty, empathy . . .

Wow!

Bro I was there… the capture … his house… it was insane 😞🙏🏽

The father needs to pay the price and sit in jail too. It's like he motivated his son to do this horrific crime police your job is to protect the community am I right or wrong. So why isn't the dad in jail yet

Man looks like raven from teen titans go💀

He does favor a women. Wonder if he also has identity issues.

This father is completely in denial and thinks it’s not his fault in any way. These are the types of people who are raising these kids. No wonder why their turning out so fucked up

That's crazy.

If your child says they’re gonna kill the family… they are a psychopath and do not need a weapon at all