The death toll from the Fourth of July massacre in Highland Park rose to seven as of Wednesday.
The victims include Steven Strauss, 88; Catherine Goldstein, 64; Jackie Sundheim, 63; Nicholas Toledo Zaragoza, 78; Eduardo Uvaldo, 69, and husband and wife Irina and Kevin McCarthy, 35 and 37.
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said Wednesday that the seventh victim, Uvalda, died at an Evanston hospital around 8 a.m. The number of injured now is 46 people aged from 8 to 85 years.
Robert Crimmo, 21, appeared in Lake County District Court on Wednesday after being charged with seven counts of first-degree murder. He is expected to face multiple other charges and is being held without bail.
Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart told the court that Crimo carried out a “calculated and deliberate attack.” He said Krima admitted to standing on a roof above the parade route and aiming at bystanders while reloading his Smith & Wesson AR-15 rifle three times.
The police removed 83 spent shell casings from the roof.
Irina and Kevin McCarthy, 35 and 37, were killed in the massacre. Their two-year-old son, Aiden, was pulled from under his father’s body
Nicholas Toledo, 76, didn’t want to attend the July 4th parade in Highland Park, Illinois, on Monday because he was in a wheelchair.
Irina and Kevin McCarthy, 35 and 37, were parents to a two-year-old boy, Aiden, who is now an orphan. He was pulled out from under his father’s body and looked after by the parade participants.
The first identified victim was 76-year-old Nicholas Toledo. He was a grandfather visiting his family from Mexico. His family said he was shot in the head while he was in a wheelchair and blood splattered on them.
Toledo did not want to attend the parade, his granddaughter told the New York Times. But because of his disability, which left him unable to get around in a wheelchair, and because of his family’s insistence that he go, he obliged.
Another victim, Jackie Sundheim, was a a longtime synagogue teacher of the Congregation of the North Bank of Israel. She is survived by her husband Bruce and daughter Leah, according to the Times of Israel.
“There are not enough words to express the depth of our sadness at Jackie’s passing,” the synagogue said in a statement.
Eduardo Uvaldo, 69, who was hospitalized with gunshot wounds to the arm and the back of the head, died Wednesday. His wife Maria was hit in the head by shrapnel, and his grandson suffered a gunshot wound to the arm, but his condition is stable.
On Wednesday, Katherine Goldstein’s daughter, Cassie, described how her mother was shot in the chest and fell dead in front of her.
“He shot her in the chest and she fell. And I knew she was dead,” Cassie told NBC Nightly News. “So I just told her I loved her, but I couldn’t stop because he was still shooting everyone around me.”
Kathryn Goldstein, pictured left, was among the people killed in the July 4th mass shooting at the Highland Park parade
Steve Strauss, 88, left, was among seven people killed in the Highland Park Fourth of July parade massacre. Eduardo Uvaldo, 65 (right), died Wednesday. The family said he was wounded in the arm and the back of the head
A local doctor who rushed to the carnage described the shooting victims as having been “blasted” by the attacker’s powerful weapon.
Dr. David Baum, a longtime Highland Park obstetrician, attended the parade with his wife and children to watch his two-year-old grandson participate. As shots rang out and others fled, he rushed into the fray to try to help the injured.
In an interview with CNN, Baum said he saw victims with “war-like” and “unspeakable” injuries.
“The people who disappeared were blown away by this shooting,” Baum said. “The gruesome scene of some of these bodies is unspeakable to the common man.”
“Being a doctor, I’ve seen things in emergency rooms, you know, you see a lot of blood. But the bodies were literally — some of the bodies — were gutted with injuries from the power of that gun and the bullets.”
“There was another person who had an unspeakable head injury. Unspeakable,” he told CNN.
“And the injuries that I saw, I never served, but these are wartime injuries. That’s what you see in the victims of war, not the victims in a parade,” Baum said.
Baum said at least three doctors, a nurse and a nurse joined him in treating the victims. He recalled that paramedics covered victims who they knew were dead at the scene.
