Robert Crimo III shot at a July 4 parade, killing six and injuring many others.
The Highland Park police identified the prime suspect in the July 4 shooting in Chicago on Monday as 22-year-old Robert E. Crimo III.
Crimo is an amateur rapper and songwriter who makes music under the stage name, Awake. He released his first song “By the Pond” in 2016 which amassed more than three million streams before being removed from music stores and streaming services for an unspecified reason.
Crimo’s Facebook and Instagram pages had been removed by the time police released his name, and his YouTube channel was also later removed, but a series of videos uploaded by Crimo online have remained.
Crimo’s videos
Most of the videos on the suspect’s blog seemed to just be songs by Crimo, but others were far from innocent, containing symbolism and imagery connected to gun violence and assassination.
One particular video stood out – the only animated video depicting a character carrying out a shooting before being shot dead by police officers.
Gun imagery repeats itself through many of the videos, while other videos evoked the John F. Kennedy assassination with one video focusing a motorcade, and in another video of him rapping, an article about JFK’s killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, could be seen pinned on the wall.
As reported by The Jerusalem Post