{"id":1538742,"date":"2022-07-04T18:34:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T22:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1538742"},"modified":"2022-07-04T18:34:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T22:34:19","slug":"i-saw-her-die-witness-describes-traumatic-scene-of-july-4th-parade-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-saw-her-die-witness-describes-traumatic-scene-of-july-4th-parade-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Saw Her Die\u2019: Witness Describes Traumatic Scene Of July 4th Parade Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-saw-her-die-witness-describes-traumatic-scene-of-july-4th-parade-shooting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1538742&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An eyewitness recounted the horrific scene at Monday\u2019s Highland Park parade celebrating Independence Day, telling CNN that she had watched as a young girl was shot to death in the street.<\/p>\n<p>The witness, who introduced herself to CNN\u2019s Adrienne Broaduss as only \u201cZoe,\u201d explained that she and her father had arrived early to watch the pet parade and the children\u2019s parade first \u2014 and she said that when the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/shooting-sends-4th-of-july-parade-into-chaos-multiple-feared-injured-or-dead\/\">shooting first started<\/a>, a number of people had believed it was fireworks or some other part of the planned festivities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;All of a sudden everyone behind us started running. I looked back, probably 20 feet away from me, I saw a girl shot and killed. I saw her die,&#8221; witness describes the horror at Highland Park parade. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Oy1QCgqKvt\">pic.twitter.com\/Oy1QCgqKvt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VAKruta\/status\/1544059006406299649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, a little after the band went through, we heard pew-pew-pew, probably heard 50 rounds in total, at least,\u201d Zoe described the moment the chaos began. \u201cEveryone thought it was fireworks. Everyone said, oh, fireworks and the military people had just gone through with the shotguns, and I was like, something is wrong. I grabbed my dad and started running.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of a sudden everyone behind us started running. I looked back, probably 20 feet away from me, I saw a girl shot and killed. The girl I\u2019ve heard on the news with \u2014 in blood \u2014 I saw her die. I\u2019ve never seen anything like this,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Zoe went on to say that she and her father had found a dumpster to hide behind \u2014 and they had stayed there until police came to take them to the basement of a nearby sporting goods store.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hid there until the cops finally escorted us back to our car. They were wonderful, they drove us back to our car. I mean, I think there were people that we were hiding with, one man had been shot in the head, his ear, he was bleeding all over his face, and he was, like, I\u2019m just happy that\u2019s all happened. There was another girl that got escorted out that was shot in the leg,\u201d Zoe added. \u201cWe were hiding in the basement for quite a while. We were right in the center. I mean, someone, 20 feet away, you know, someone \u2014 and then we went back to get our car keys and we saw the streets were quite littered. It looked like a battle zone and it\u2019s disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is disgusting and hearts are hurting knowing that that\u2019s what you witnessed, that\u2019s the image in your mind on this Fourth of July,\u201d Broaduss agreed, going on to note that according to the additional reporting, a total of six people had died \u2014 and two dozen more had been injured. The suspect, she revealed, was an 18-20 year-old white male \u2014 and she said that a rifle had been recovered by law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA rifle \u2026 no, no, it was an automatic weapon,\u201d Zoe replied, insisting that she had heard gunshots before and \u201crifles don\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;A rifle \u2014 no, no, it was an automatic weapon,&#8221; witness at Highland Park parade claims &#8220;rifles don&#8217;t do that.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/edrs0duiRr\">pic.twitter.com\/edrs0duiRr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VAKruta\/status\/1544060281831231488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reports so far have suggested that there was only one shooter and that he was most likely firing from a rooftop or some other position above the crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An eyewitness recounted the horrific scene at Monday\u2019s Highland Park parade celebrating Independence Day, telling CNN that she had watched as a young girl was shot to death in the street. The witness, who introduced herself to CNN\u2019s Adrienne Broaduss as only \u201cZoe,\u201d explained that she and her father had arrived early to watch the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1538782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1538782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}