The parents of a two-year-old boyfound wandering alone after the Highland Park Massacre, are located among the dead of the 4th of July attack.
THE 35 years old Irina McCarthy and 37 years old Kevin McCarthy was killed by the gunfire of the young man, who he was shooting with a rifle against the crowd from the rooftop of a department store, turning the US Independence Day into a national tragedy.
The little boy, Mr Aiden, he was separated from his parents in the chaos caused by the attack and later the police handed it over to members of his familyaccording to a fundraising website.
“We have a long way to go to heal the wounds”said Irina Colon, who set up a GoFundMe page for the boy with the family’s consent, adding that his grandparents will take over Aiden’s care.
The GoFundMe has raised more than $425,000 so far.
As reported by the Athens News Agency, among the dead of the attack there is also a Mexican, 78-year-old Nikolas Toledo, who had gone to Chicago from Mexico to visit his family. Some of its members were injured in the attack but are expected to survive, according to local media.
Another identified victim of the attack was 63-year-old Jackie Sandheim, who was a rabbi at a Highland Park synagogue. Jackie leaves behind a husband and daughter.
Among the other dead identified by authorities are 64-year-old Katherine Goldstein and 88-year-old Steven Strauss. So far, no further information has been released about them.
From the attack about 50 people were also injured, according to police and hospital officials. Among them is a 69-year-old man who is in critical condition from a gunshot wound.
Thirty-nine different people aged from 14 to about 70 years old they were also served to hospitals of NorthShore University HealthSystem, according to spokesman Jim Anthony. Nine are still hospitalized.
Among the injured is kindergarten teacher Zoe Kolpack and her husband who were sitting watching the parade together mwith their two small childrenwhich survived the attack, again according to a fundraising page.
Kolpack’s father and brother-in-law were also shot, according to a statement from the organizer of the fundraising page, Samantha Whitehead, a friend of Zoe’s. “They are all in the hospital undergoing various surgeries”Whitehead added.
Source: News Beast
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