
At 10:59 a.m. Wednesday, accused Highland Park July 4 parade mass shooter Robert E. Crimo III slipped into a windowless courtroom in the Lake County Courthouse in Waukegan from a side door, dwarfed by two linebacker-size correctional officers in olive drab green uniforms, part of the Lake County Sheriff’s “Corrections Response Team.”
A leather belt cinched around Crimo’s waist holds a ring where his handcuffs are attached. He is wearing a Lake County Jail blue jumpsuit with a brown T-shirt underneath.