WAUKEGAN (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - The bench trial is slated to begin this morning for the father of Bobby Crimo III., who’s charged with killing seven people and wounding dozens of others in the Highland Park parade shooting.
Robert Crimo Jr faces seven counts of reckless conduct for signing a FOID card application for his son in December of 2019 when Bobby Crimo III. was only 19.
It was months after prosecutors said police had been called to the family’s home twice for well-being checks after Bobby had made threats about harming himself or relatives. Officers confiscated 16 knives, a dagger and sword on the second visit that Crimo’s father said belonged to him.
Prosecutors are expected to call 10 witnesses and read transcripts from the seven-hour police interrogation of Bobby that Judge George Strickland ruled on Friday they could not play the video of.
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