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Red flags missed: How July 4 suspect slipped through system

A body is transported from the scene of a mass shooting during the July 4th holiday weekend Monday July 4, 2022 in Highland Park, Ill. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune via AP) This photo provided by the Lake County Major Crime Task Force shows Robert Crimo, III. Crimo III has been charged with seven counts of first Degree Murder in the Fourth of July parade shooting in Highland Park, Ill. (Lake County Major Crime Task Force via AP) Empty chairs, strollers, toys and bikes litter the sidewalks on Central Avenue at the scene of a mass shooting that took place at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Ill., Monday, July 4, 2022. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Chicago Sun-Times via AP) Residents from around the Highland Park, Ill., area listen during a vigil in Highwood, Ill., for the victims of Monday's Highland Park Fourth of July parade mass shooting, Wednesday, July 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) People visit a memorial for those injured and killed in Monday's Fourth of July mass shooting, Wednesday, July 6, 2022, in Highland Park, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) A memorial to the seven people killed and others injured in Monday's Fourth of July mass shooting grows at a veterans memorial Wednesday, July 6, 2022, in Highland Park, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) In a video feed from the Lake County, Ill., jail Robert E. Crimo III appears before Lake County Judge Theodore Potkonjak in his initial court appearance Wednesday, July 6, 2022, in Waukegan, Ill. Crimo is accused of killing seven people during a mass shooting during a July 4 parade in Highland Park, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, Pool) Law enforcement search after a mass shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade in downtown Highland Park, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, on Monday, July 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) Law enforcement search after a mass shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade in downtown Highland Park, Ill., a Chicago suburb on Monday, July 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Red flags missed: How July 4 suspect slipped through system