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Robert E. Crimo Jr., listens during an appearance before Judge George D. Strickland at the Lake County Courthouse, Friday, July 14, 2023, in Waukegan, Ill. Judge Strickland on Friday set a Nov. 6 trial date for Crimo Jr. who is charged with helping his son obtain a gun license three years before the son allegedly shot dead seven people at a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago last year. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, Pool)

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Trial date set for father of suspect in mass shooting at July 4 parade in suburban Chicago
By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press
Fri,07/14/23-1:16PM , 103 Reads
CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois judge on Friday set a Nov. 6 trial date for a father charged with helping his son obtain a gun license three years before the son allegedly shot dead seven people at a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago last year.
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Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a meeting with all of the U.S. Attorneys to discuss violent crime reduction strategies at the Department of Justice in Washington, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Contrasting decisions on whether gunmen should face a federal death sentence in massecres with so much in common illustrate the Justice Department’s murky, often baffling death penalty policies. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

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How DOJ made different death penalty decisions in the Pittsburgh synagogue and Texas mall massacres
By MICHAEL TARM - AP Legal Affairs Writer
Fri,07/14/23-12:40AM , 240 Reads
CHICAGO (AP) — Two separate shootings 2,000 miles (3,218 kilometers) apart. One killed 11 at a Pittsburgh synagogue. The other killed 23 at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. Both were motivated by hate. Both involved gunmen who later claimed mental illness.
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Police cordon off an area as they respond to a shooting near the Hollywood Beach Broadwalk in Hollywood, Fla., Monday evening, May 29, 2023. Recent high-profile mass shootings highlight what can be a deadly mix of teenage bravado and immaturity with growing access to high-powered guns that can kill faster and more efficiently than ever. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, File)

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Mix of bravado and access to guns contribute to mass shootings by teens in St. Louis, other cities
By MICHAEL TARM - AP Legal Affairs Writer
Sat,06/24/23-3:12AM , 226 Reads
CHICAGO (AP) — A 1 a.m. shooting at a party in downtown St. Louis kills one and injures nearly a dozen. Gunmen open fire during a fight near Florida's Hollywood Beach, injuring nine, including a 1-year-old. Bursts of gunfire at a Sweet 16 party in Dadeville, Alabama, kill four and wound more than 30.
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Heather Mack of Chicago, Ill., center, is mobbed by reporters as she arrives in the courtroom for her sentencing hearing at a district court in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, April 21, 2015. The Chicago woman facing federal conspiracy charges in the 2014 killing of her mother during a luxury vacation in Bali plans to plead guilty, her attorney said Thursday, June 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, File)

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Heather Mack, convicted in Bali of killing mom and stuffing body in suitcase, pleads guilty in US
By MICHAEL TARM - AP Legal Affairs Writer
Thu,06/15/23-11:04PM , 135 Reads
CHICAGO (AP) — An American woman accused of helping to kill her mother and stuffing her body in a suitcase during a luxury vacation to Bali nine years ago changed her plea to guilty in Chicago federal court on Friday.
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