Robert Cremo III admits to being a depressed drug user

WHe questioned the hen about threatening to “kill everyone” in his family, the Highland Park shooter admitted Robert Cremo III He confessed to police three years ago that he was a teenage drug user, according to recently released documents.

according to Highland Park Police In the report, the shooter was classified as a “clear and present danger” in 2019, just a few months before his father helped him build the arsenal he allegedly used to kill seven people and wound several others in his neighborhood’s Fourth of July procession.

Officers were called to his Highland Park home at 10 a.m. on September 5 to check on his safety after a relative stated that “Robert said he was going to kill everyone,” according to the report.

2019 report from Highland Park Police Department

The report, published on Wednesday, notes that the relative, whose identity has been withheld, “was afraid to return to his home due to the nature of the threat” and the presence of Knife collection in his bedroom.”

The redacted report stated that during a police interview with 18-year-old Cremo in front of his mother, Denis Pessina, “He admitted that he was depressed… and had a history of substance abuse.” She did not specify which medications he was taking at the time.

The depressed teen and his mother, however, “didn’t respond to the language he was using,” the officers who responded to the questionnaire noted, even though one of their relatives was too afraid to go home.

Indications of Robert Cremo’s interrogation and danger

Kremo’s father was also questioned by the police. According to the report, he immediately declared that “the set of knives belonged to him.”

Robert Cremo [Jr.] He then agreed to hand over the set of 16 knives that were stored in a tin lunch box, along with a 12-inch dagger and a 24-inch samurai blade in the Robert E. Cremo III bedroom wardrobe.

However, the Illinois State Police received a “clear and present danger form that was filled out and faxed,” according to a local police report.

Seven counts First-degree murder They were brought against Crimo, with a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment with no chance of parole.

State Attorney for Lake County Eric Reinhart He promised to file an attempted murder and aggravated battery charges for each injured person, saying, “There will be many, many charges to come.”

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