Uncle of Bobby Crimo said nephew showed
no signs of violence: report
New York Post,
by
David Propper
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
7/5/2022 12:56:52 AM
The uncle of Robert “Bobby” Crimo III — the person of interest in Highland Park’s 4th of July parade mass shooting — said there were no signals that his 22-year-old nephew would carry out such carnage.
“There were no signs that I saw that would make him do this,” Paul Crimo told CNN in a Monday night interview after his nephew was taken into custody in connection to the shooting.
Robert Crimo was described as a recluse by his uncle and others who knew him, including neighbors and former classmates.
Police said at a press conference announcing the arrest it is believed Robert Crimo was responsible for the hail of bullets
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Northcross 7/5/2022 1:06:44 AM (No. 1206725)
Any signs of drug use? Sociopathic behavior? Unhinged hatred? Mental illness?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Blue Hen1 7/5/2022 1:07:59 AM (No. 1206726)
He was a good boy
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
snakeoil 7/5/2022 1:10:08 AM (No. 1206728)
Mystfying as to why young men choose to throw their life away by killing people they don't even know. He deserves the death penalty but I doubt Illinois even has one. A loner who like computer games. Where he's going he isn't going to be alone and he'll never see a computer again. Condolences to the friends and relatives of the victims.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
singermom9 7/5/2022 1:14:14 AM (No. 1206735)
How did he get ahold of such expensive guns when he had no job. Same with the TX school shooter. He had no job and those guns were expensive. Makes you wonder.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
danu 7/5/2022 2:04:39 AM (No. 1206742)
such powerful investigatory reporting. stunning. /s/
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/5/2022 2:50:23 AM (No. 1206763)
Are they serious? This kid had red flags sticking out of his ears.
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He was such a sweet caring person! He lit up the room whenever he walked in! He always showed kindness to others! Blah, Blah, Blah!!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
PostAway 7/5/2022 4:01:32 AM (No. 1206771)
How could anyone have known? They couldn’t but the facial tattoos and self-made music video promising death and destruction carried out by a seemingly inoffensive nonentity might have been clues. However, none of it is actionable.
The rise of mass killings seems, at least to me, to coincide with the introduction of violent video games. The mechanism seems obvious: isolated misfits can spend years alone amusing themselves by acting out realistic revenge fantasies until so de-sensitized that the fantasies seem normal.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
PChristopher 7/5/2022 4:10:41 AM (No. 1206773)
He was a very quiet boy, very quiet
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 7/5/2022 4:26:55 AM (No. 1206775)
His Youtube postings show otherwise. Red flags everywhere but no one saw anything. So much for the Federal legislation, no one stopped this individual. Don't blame the tool, the gun, blame the tools who didn't recognize a deprived mindset.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/5/2022 4:40:26 AM (No. 1206778)
My evaluation, just from looking at his picture, is that he is a nutcase. That is a sign, hard not to notice.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 7/5/2022 5:50:05 AM (No. 1206788)
I'm with #6. This guy should not have been six feet to a gun. Families need to start taking responsibility for their family members actions.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
chumley 7/5/2022 6:14:41 AM (No. 1206796)
Ask his secret FBI handler. You dont need to be Sigmund Freud to know a psycho when you see one.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Rinktum 7/5/2022 7:01:37 AM (No. 1206814)
Interesting the correlation between increased mass shootings and democrats push to gut the 2A. Are democrats providing evidence against bearing arms? Surely no rational person would use a strategy so devoid of human decency to push their agenda forward.
I do agree with the comments regarding violent video games. Submersing yourself in that kind of carnage for hours at a time cannot be healthy. It desensitizes you and young people whose brains are not fully formed are very vulnerable. An independent study regarding the correlation between video games and mass shootings would be helpful but I assume the producers of this content would vigorously object.
Parents must realize that what you instill in your child matters. Garbage in, garbage out as they say. Fill your kids heads with mayhem and murder and that is what you are going to produce. We cannot abandoned our responsibility as parents to actually parent. While some kids can ingest this type of entertainment and become unscathed by it, others it will devastate. Kids need guidance and it is a parent’s responsibility to provide that. Clearly, this kid had problems.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 7/5/2022 7:07:17 AM (No. 1206817)
How much contact did Paul have with his nephew? Evidently not much.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
homefry 7/5/2022 7:51:30 AM (No. 1206835)
I can look at his picture and tell he is as crazy as a sheet house rat.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 7/5/2022 7:57:57 AM (No. 1206840)
A picture is worth a thousand words...that punk was F’d up. You see that piece of human debris on the street you best keep a sharp and be ready to pull iron on it.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/5/2022 8:18:24 AM (No. 1206855)
Yeah, it was just a phase before he signed up for medical school.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Hazymac 7/5/2022 8:24:25 AM (No. 1206861)
Here we have an odd white gangsta rapper with facial and neck tattoos, described by an acquaintance as "a little off," a loner who played violent video games, was "quiet, very quiet." and rode around on an electric scooter blasting heavy metal. What could possibly go wrong? As others have said this fellow was a walking red flag, yet no around him suspected a thing until he went off. Bad upbringing will be found at the root of this and other similar evil. Children not taught to respect and revere life can grow into desolate, dangerous adults. In nine-tenths of the mass shootings reported in the last third of a century, warning signals were abundant before the attack, but responsible people didn't act responsibly. Intellectual sluggards and magical thinkers, they believed not in locking up violent criminals but instead in limiting law abiding citizens' right of armed self defense. Author William S. Burroughs once wrote, "After a shooting spree they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it."
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The descriptions of Crimo in the article are sufficient to form a mental and psychological profile, and it isn't good.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
TruthFetish 7/5/2022 9:02:06 AM (No. 1206892)
Has ANY mass shooter actually grown up with a father in the home, all the way through his teenage years? (government as a father doesn't count.).
Didn't think so.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 7/5/2022 9:21:21 AM (No. 1206910)
I can look at the location of tattoo mutilations on the creep and see red flags everywhere. I was looking in the article for the weapon of choice to see what Joe Biden will want legislation on. Give me a break, rap music, loud music in his ears, computer social media, electric bike this guy wasn't hard to see as a danger a mile away. Uncle Crimo didn't know jack about the little murderous creep except he was quiet? There will be more to come when a lost generation of gamers really get cranked up.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 7/5/2022 10:07:20 AM (No. 1206957)
Schizophrenia is a horrible brain disease - - which strikes very suddenly - - usually to young men aged 16 to 25.
They lose control of their reasoning and logic - - and act according to voices they hear in their heads.
If given proper medical treatment - - and watched closely by a loving family - - they can partially recover and live quiet, uneventful lives. If not diagnosed and treated promptly - - they can become raging lunatics - - and start shooting people. It's a terrible medical problem - - endemic to all human beings - - and currently beyond medical science to prevent.
Guns have nothing to do with the problem.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
TLCary 7/5/2022 10:26:50 AM (No. 1206969)
The boy, AKA "Awake the Rapper" - the uncle never listened to the lyrics? Roll tape.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
lftrn97 7/5/2022 10:55:34 AM (No. 1206983)
Sorry if it sounds insensitive but the rap crap is an automatic trigger to mentally disturbed
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Kate318 7/5/2022 11:03:20 AM (No. 1206993)
That’s because he was recruited.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/5/2022 11:41:16 AM (No. 1207010)
#4; I don't wonder anymore: I think I've figured it out. How are the Commiecrats going to legislate our defenses away unless there is a mass shooting on occasion. We know how easy it is to trap gullible young people into a sexual liaison. It wouldn't be difficult to encourage a depressed, misanthropic individual to shoot up a parade, or a store.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
msjena 7/5/2022 11:53:42 AM (No. 1207014)
Young white male loner who spends his days alone in his room watching YouTube videos and drawing pictures of people with guns. It sounds like he fits the profile.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
DVC 7/5/2022 12:37:46 PM (No. 1207038)
He looks like way too may brain burning drugs.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
DVC 7/5/2022 12:39:51 PM (No. 1207039)
Re #4, reports are that he was a rapper and had a $100K net worth. I can't verify any of that just that this is what some news sources have reported. I think people overreact. You can purchase a rifle for $500 new, or at least could a few years ago. And stolen guns are often sold at a fraction of their normal value.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
DVC 7/5/2022 12:40:55 PM (No. 1207045)
Re #4, look at the DM story below this one. Is DM always accurate? You decide. He apparently was not destitute.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/5/2022 1:11:30 PM (No. 1207079)
Goes on to describe him as a recluse. Right. That’s pretty normal in an 18 year oled male. /s
Re #1, his father said he had been a mental hospital inpatient when he was 16, left with meds which he reddently stopped taking.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/5/2022 1:29:02 PM (No. 1207091)
Interesting that few are paying attention to #23, and yet that is the most likely reason for his actions. Another article quoted his father’s saying he had been an INPATIENT in a MENTAL HOSPITAL when he was 16. Given meds which he had been taking since then until he recently quit taking them.
We are seeing every cliche in the book on these threads while skipping by likely legiimate medical reasons. And no, it wouldn’t be the meds that are used to control schizophrenia. It would be his stopping them.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/5/2022 1:38:00 PM (No. 1207098)
Before you go galloping off, read this. Re #23. It is highly likely that he has what is classified as “childhood schizophenia” because of the onset before he was 18.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/childhood-schizophrenia/symptoms-causes/syc-20354483
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
hope27 7/5/2022 2:15:22 PM (No. 1207128)
"He said he spends a lot of time on YouTube and didn’t think he had a job."
“I associate with him, but I don’t really like to engage with him. I say hi and then when I leave I say bye. That’s it,” he told CNN."
“We are good people here, and to have this is devastating,” Paul Crimo said."
"I don't really like to engage with him", says Uncle Paul. "Didn't think he had a job" - one would think an uncle would "know". Appears no one else in the family engaged much either. No job, living with his parents, building a structure (cabin) on their driveway, was he getting an "allowance" from parents who own a deli, father ran for mayor. Yeah, no red flags here.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
DVC 7/5/2022 3:40:38 PM (No. 1207233)
He was in an inpatient mental institution at age 16, and then on "meds". Many times these "meds" are listed right on the required side effects list as causing "suicidal or violent ideation".
They make some into violent crazies from just merely ordinary crazies.
Are we looking in the right direction? Is the actually a pharmacological problem that we are seeing? Is this really just the latest outrage from Big Pharma?
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
DVC 7/5/2022 3:51:53 PM (No. 1207243)
Excellent comment, #23, although I have no direct knowledge of 'cures' and start out as a skeptic, but willing to hear from sensible people who have experience.
Nutball Mom, outsiders saw "not a lot of love in that family", cops called frequently for domestic problems, kids dropped at sports and not picked up until the coach called, coach says, "she treated the kids as a nuisance". Apparently the mother may have two or three screws loose, and they can pass that on, both genetically and by their nutcase actions, too.
And no doubt that there is a small fraction of young people, often males, who about 18 or so....just go off the rails. I was quite aware of how much my own decision making process changed from 18 to 20 years of age. It was apparent to ME that I was thinking more sensibly than I had been.
It seems that during the period of "great brain rewiring" that normally happens, sometimes things just go wrong. The young man who shot Gabby Giffords seems to be much like this loon. Same dark music, and "was a good boy until a few years ago" and then just off the rails into violence.
How much is the mental health drugs that are handed out? How much do they cause these 'lost boys' to become violent lost boys? Mental health legal drugs seem to come up way too often in these cases.
And of course, street drugs don't help at all.
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