Jury for Highland Park Mass Shooting Trial selected; Opening statements for Monday

Twelve jurors and six deputies were selected in the murder process against Robert Crimo III, the man who was accused of killing seven people and dozens more in one Mass shootings at the parade on July fourth in Highland Park in 2022.

The last jury and six deputies were sitting on Wednesday, the third day of the jury's selection. The opening statements begin on Monday.

The 12-member jury includes a domestic hospice nurse, a man who owns a freight forwarding company, a part-time student who dreams of becoming a fireman and paramedic, and a woman whose great-grandfather shot two police officers in 1916.

Crimo did not take part in the last selection of the jury on Wednesday. During the The first two days of selecting the juryHe was on trial for the first half of the jury, but did not return after the lunch break of every day.

The judge recalled the people that Crimo does not have to be in court to stand in court.

Some of the selected jurors stated that crimo was guilty after seeing initial news about the attack, but they could put their opinions aside and impartially assess the case based on the evidence submitted in court.

However, some other potential jurors were released afterwards They could not put the opinions that they had already formed in the case.

Statements and other evidence in this case are expected to take 3 to 5 weeks. Most surviving victims of the shootout are expected to testify, and the judge has decided that victims witnesses can be in court throughout the proceedings, even if other victims testify.

The 24-year-old crimo is brought to trial due to 21 murder and 48 cases for attempted murder. When the jury was selected, the prosecutors dropped 48 cases of heavy battery against him, since the indictment was essentially superfluous, with the test murder counts.

Last year crimo leaned a plea This would have made him guilty of seven murder cases and 48 cases of severe battery and sentenced him to life sentence.

Those who were killed in the shootout belonged to 64-year-old Katherine Goldstein. 35-year-old Irina McCarthy, 37-year-old Kevin McCarthy, 63-year-old Jacquelyn Sundheim, 88-year-old Stephen Straus, 78-year-old Nicolas Toledo-Zaragozaand 69-year-old Eduardo Uvaldo.

Another 48 people were wounded by the shootings, including Cooper RobertsThen 8, which was paralyzed from the waist.