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Gay cross-dresser, Robert Crimo III

Highland Park, Illinois, mass shooting suspect Robert Crimo III changed
his plea to guilty on Monday as opening arguments in his trial were set to begin, according to Chicago ABC station WLS.

Crimo is accused of killing seven people and injuring dozens of others in
the mass shooting at a 2022 Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park. He pleaded guilty to 21 counts of first-degree murder,
three counts of each person killed, and dozens of attempted murder
charges, according to WLS.

He is scheduled to be sentenced on April 23.

Survivor Ashbey Beasley, who fled the parade with her son when the gunfire broke out, said the plea brings an "immense amount of relief."

"Every single time I see [Crimo], it's stressful," she told reporters on Monday. "I think it's upsetting for everyone. ... Just knowing that this
plea has been entered and we will not have to see him again is what we all need."

"Our path to healing is beginning," she said.

Beasley also stressed the need for gun reform to prevent other mass
shootings.

"We are not the first community to go through this and we will not be the last," Beasley cautioned. "It's on our lawmakers to make changes so that
this doesn't happen again."

"Today�s guilty plea is an important step toward justice, but does not
erase the pain," Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering said in a statement.

"Our thoughts and hearts remain with the families whose loved ones were senselessly taken, those who were injured, and everyone whose lives were forever changed by this horrific act," she said.

Jury selection wrapped up in the trial on Wednesday with opening
statements planned for Monday. The trial was expected to take a few weeks.

Crimo told police he wore women's clothing during the shooting and used
makeup to hide his facial tattoos and blend in with the crowd during the
chaos, prosecutors said. Crimo was apprehended hours later and prosecutors
said he confessed to the shooting.

Crimo appeared ready to accept a guilty plea last June during a hearing,
only to reject the deal in front of devastated members of the victims' families. He was expected to plead guilty to seven counts of murder and 48 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm at the hearing at the time, according to The Associated Press.

"We have Fourth of July coming up and it will be two years," Leah
Sundheim, whose mother, Jacquelyn Sundheim, was killed in the shooting,
said at a news conference at the time. "All I wanted was to be able to
fully grieve my mom without the looming trial, knowing that he was going
to spend the rest of his life in jail. And instead, we were yet again
shown [Crimo's] complete and blatant disregard for humans."

Crimo's father, Robert Crimo Jr., who was present during jury selection
and again on Monday, pleaded guilty last year to reckless conduct,
admitting to signing the Firearm Owner's Identification card for his son
to apply for gun ownership. He did not answer questions while leaving
court Monday.

The younger Crimo was 19 at the time and and too young to get a FOID card
on his own. Illinois at the time required people ages 18, 19 or 20 to have parent or guardian authorization.


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