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Long before police say he used a semiautomatic rifle to massacre spectators at this week’s Fourth of July parade in a Chicago suburb, Robert “Bobby” Crimo III was on a “downward spiral” that friends told The Daily Beast lasted for years but went unheeded by his family.
The mother of two of Crimo’s former skatepark friends said that the accused mass shooter came to her house frequently around 2016 and 2017 and was nothing but quiet and polite. She says at that point, he wasn’t yet cutting a disturbing figure as a wannabe YouTube rapper, with tattoos covering his face and music riddled with violent imagery.
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