HE KILLED SEVEN INNOCENT PEOPLE. THEN, THE JUDGE THREW THE BOOK AT HIM WITH SEVEN LIFE SENTENCES.

A Chicago man who killed seven innocent people during an Independence Day parade will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Circuit Judge Victoria Rossetti handed 23-year-old Robert Crimo III seven consecutive life sentences for the shooting deaths of Katherine Goldstein, 64; Jacquelyn Sundheim, 63; Stephen Straus, 88; Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, 78; Eduardo Uvaldo, 69; and married couple Kevin McCarthy, 37, and Irina McCarthy, 35.

The gunman has a complete disregard for human life and is irretrievably depraved, permanently incorrigible, irreparably corrupt, and beyond any rehabilitation," said Rosetti, according to BBC.

Crimo pleaded guilty to the murders and attempted murders of nearly 50 injured people in the aftermath of his mass shooting. On July 4, 2022, during an Independence Day parade about 30 miles outside of the city of Chicago in Highland Park, the defendant shot 83 bullets in forty seconds into the crowd. Immediately, parade performers and people who attended scrambled for safety during the mayhem.

Soon, authorities used video footage from the security cameras to identify Crimo as the gunman. Then, a manhunt for Crimo ensued after he fled the scene, leaving his semiautomatic rifle behind. A few hours later, the defendant was arrested in the state of Wisconsin. 

During the sentencing hearing, the defendant and his family all opted not to appear in court. As a result, he was sentenced in absentia.

"But at the same time, I wasn’t surprised at all. And regardless of whether he was there or not, this was going to happen. I don’t need to see his face. I know what he looks like. I watched the videos with the confession. That was enough to see how cavalier he was about murdering seven people," said Liz Turnipseed, who took a bullet in the pelvis and still suffers from mobility challenges, reported NBC News.

Rosetti also sentenced Crimo to an additional 50 years in prison for the attempted murder charges. The defendant’s father, Robert Crimo Jr., served a month in county jail after he pleaded guilty to reckless conduct after helping his son receive a firearms ownership identification card.