BREAKING: Man pleads guilty to killing 7 in 2022 July 4th shooting in Illinois

Crimo was accused of plotting and carrying out the 2022 attack on the parade that killed seven people and injured dozens of others. The victims of the shooting ranged from eight years of age to 88.

According to ABC 7, Crimo pleaded guilty to all 21 counts of first-degree murder that were filed against him, three for each person killed, and dozens of attempted murder charges.

Sentencing is scheduled to take place on April 23. He is expected to receive a sentence of life in prison without parole.

Prosecutors said that nearly all 48 of the survivors from that day were planning on testifying at the trial, and thousands of pages of evidence as well as hours of a video-taped interrogation during which police said Crimo confessed to the shooting were turned over by prosecutors.

Crimo had initially pleaded not guilty and rejected a 2024 plea deal.

Those killed in the shooting were 35-year-old Irina McCarthy and 37-year-old Kevin McCarthy, whose 2-year-old son was found wandering alone int he wake of the shooting, 63-year-old Jacquelyn Sundheim, 64-year-old Katherine Goldstein, 69-year-old Eduardo Uvaldo, 78-year-old Nicolas Toledo-Zargoza, and 88-year-old Stephen Straus. A then-eight-year-old boy, Cooper Roberts, was left paralyzed from the waist down after being shot.

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