Highland Park shooter Robert Crimo III sentenced to life in prison following Fourth of July parade attack

The wide shooter who killed 7 radical successful the 2022 Fourth of July parade successful Highland Park, Illinois, was sentenced Thursday to beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole, with a justice describing him arsenic "irreparably corrupt and beyond immoderate rehabilitation." 

Robert E. Crimo III, 24, was fixed 7 consecutive sentences of earthy beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole for the first-degree execution charges helium pleaded blameworthy to past month. 

"This tribunal has perfectly nary words that could adequately picture and seizure the fearfulness and symptom that was inflicted connected July 4th," Lake County Judge Victoria Rossetti said arsenic she announced the sentencing. 

She described Crimo arsenic having "a implicit disregard for quality life" and being idiosyncratic who "is irretrievably depraved, permanently incorrigible, irreparably corrupt and beyond immoderate rehabilitation," according to the Associated Press. 

ILLINOIS JULY 4 PARADE SHOOTING SUSPECT AGREES TO FLIP GUILTY PLEA ON MURDER AND OTHER CHARGES 

Robert Crimo III appears earlier Judge Victoria A. Rossetti astatine the Lake County Courthouse connected June 26, 2024, successful Waukegan, Ill. (Nam Y. Huh-Pool/Getty Images)

Crimo refused to be his sentencing proceeding connected Wednesday oregon Thursday contempt Rossetti’s erstwhile warnings that the lawsuit would proceed without him.  

The onslaught besides near 48 others injured. 

Keely Roberts, whose 8-year-old lad Cooper Roberts is paralyzed from the waist down, told the tribunal that Crimo was "cowardly" for not attending his sentencing hearing. 

"You volition not perceive my grief," she said. "You are present irrelevant." 

HIGHLAND PARK MAYOR: ROBERT CRIMO III'S WEAPON WAS ‘LEGALLY OBTAINED’ 

The spot of Robert Crimo III, who did not appear, is bare astatine the defence array during his sentencing proceeding astatine the Lake County Courthouse successful Waukegan, Illinois, connected Wednesday, April 23. (AP/Nam Y. Huh)

Crimo allegedly climbed connected a extortion supra the Fourth of July parade successful downtown Highland Park, 30 miles northbound of Chicago, and opened occurrence connected spectators with a legally purchased Smith & Wesson M&P 15 rifle. 

The 7 victims who died successful the shooting are Jacki Sundheim, 63; Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, 78; Irina McCarthy, 35, and Kevin McCarthy, 37; Katherine Goldstein, 64; Stephen Straus, 88; and Edwardo Uvaldo, 69. 

Robert E. Crimo III speaks to Lake County's adjunct nationalist defender Anton Trizna arsenic helium appears for a proceeding earlier Judge Victoria A. Rossetti astatine the Lake County Courthouse successful June 2024. (Photo by Nam Y. Huh-Pool/Getty Images)

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Crimo’s father, Robert Crimo Jr., a erstwhile mayoral candidate, was charged successful transportation with however his lad obtained a weapon license. He pleaded blameworthy successful 2023 to 7 misdemeanor counts of reckless conduct. He served little than 2 months successful jail. 

Fox News' Stephen Sorace, Patrick McGovern, Audrey Conklin and the Associated Press contributed to this report.