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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Lynn Sweet

Kamala Harris visits Highland Park after July 4th parade massacre: “Should never have happened”

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks Tuesday at a news conference on Central Avenue near Green Bay Road in downtown Highland Park, one day after a gunman killed at least seven people and wounded dozens more by firing an AR-15-style rifle from a rooftop onto a crowd attending Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Highland Park on Tuesday to make a condolence call the day after the July 4th parade massacre showed this suburb — which actually has an assault weapons ban in place — that indeed, it can happen here.

Bringing condolences from President Joe Biden, “from our country,” Harris said “the pain and suffering” should “never have happened.”

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