Crimo did not attend Wednesday’s session. A guard told Judge Victoria Rossetti in the morning that he had checked on Crimo earlier Wednesday and the defendant indicated he did not plan to come to court. The guard told the judge that he checked in again at lunch, but Crimo again declined to come to court.

Most of the surviving victims plan to testify at the trial that Lake County Judge Victoria Rossetti said could last three and five weeks.

The jury of six men and six women is set to return Monday for opening statements in a trial that could last three to five weeks. Six alternate jurors have also been selected.

We saw evil that day.’ Survivors of the Highland Park July 4 parade mass shooting hope for justice, resolution as jury selection begins.

The suspected shooter is facing 21 counts of first-degree murder and 48 counts of attempted murder related to the 2022 mass shooting.

In a case with such an unpredictable defendant, no one knows for sure what might happen when jury selection is set to begin Monday morning.

After skipping court Monday afternoon, the 23-year-old Highwood man accused of fatally shooting seven people and injuring dozens of others during Highland Park’s Independence Day parade in 2022

Jury selection continued for a second day on Tuesday in the murder trial of the man accused of killing seven people and wounding dozens of others in Highland Park, Illinois, during the 4th of July parade in 2022.

The man accused of killing several parade-goers in a mass shooting in Highland Park more than two years ago was again a no-show for court Wednesday as the judge and attorneys made their final juror selections.