According to officials, Robert “Bobby” E. Crimo III, 21, made his confession in a voluntary statement. He has been charged with seven counts of first-degree murder and will probably face more counts over the dozens injured during Monday's attack, the prosecutor announced.
"He went into details about what he had done," Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart told reporters outside of the county courthouse. "He admitted to what he had done. We don't want to speculate on motives right now."
Police also stressed that after the shooting, Crimo had contemplated whether to carry out another massacre at a celebration in Madison, Wisconsin. Crimo came at the event in Wisconsin, but intelligence suggests that he had not put in enough thought and research to carry out the attack, Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli said. Crimo left his phone while in the Madison area, which was recovered by the FBI on Tuesday, Covelli said.
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Crimo's trial will likely be in August, and he will be represented in court by the public defender's office, Rinehart said. "Many more charges" will be brought against Crimo, and for every person hurt in the attack, an attempted murder charge and an aggravated battery with a firearm charge will be brought against him, Rinehart said.
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"All of those are class X felonies, which have obviously serious prison time associated with them, but other people were attempted to be murdered, people who were not shot," Rinehart said. "So there are many different charges that we are reviewing with respect to the other individuals who have sadly been injured by this, frankly, who were present on the scene. They were shot at, that may also constitute an attempted murder charge."
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Crimo had history with law enforcement, police said Tuesday. The first contact was in April 2019 after a person reached out to police upon learning of a suicide attempt by Crimo, and later that year in September, a family member reported that Crimo "said he was going to kill everyone" and had a collection of knives, Covelli said.
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On the morning of Monday, July 4, as the United States was gearing up for its 246th annual celebration of independence from Britain, the National Rifle Association (NRA) – America’s ultra-powerful gun rights organisation – offered the following inspirational reminder on Twitter: “The only reason you’re celebrating Independence Day is because citizens were armed”. The tweet ended with the hashtag “#FourthofJuly”.
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