CubitaNOW Staff - Tuesday, July 5, 2022This Monday, July 4, when the United States celebrated Independence Day, a person opened fire in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois.As a result six people died and more than twenty were injured.The mass shooting took place in the town of Highland Park, just after the annual Independence Day parade began along the main avenue at around 10 am (local time).American newspapers have begun to compile the harsh testimonies of people who were in the place at the time of the tragic event.People told various media that when they heard the sound of the shots like a burst they initially thought it was fireworks.They felt "small intervals of silence" in which it is assumed that the author the author of the facts reloaded his rifle.Zoe Pawelczak, who attended the parade with her father, said she knew early on that something was wrong."I grabbed my dad and started running. Suddenly everyone behind us started running," she said."I looked back probably 20 feet away from me. I saw a girl who was shot," she explained.According to the account, both hid behind a garbage container and remained there for approximately an hour until the police officers helped them out.Another person told The Chicago Sun Times that he and his partner were separated during the chaos caused by the shooting and that each took one of his two children with them to try to protect them."I took my son and tried to get into one of the local buildings, but I couldn't. The shooting stopped, I imagine the shooter was reloading. So I kept running and went into an alley and put my son in a dumpster to to be safe," he recalls.“I never imagined this, to look up and see a guy shooting bullets at me in the United States and in a July 4 parade,” Shawn Cotreau, who had traveled from Boston with his family to enjoy the parade, told The New York Times.“My wife looked up and yelled, 'Get up, run.Get up, run.I turned around and I could see the shooter,” Cotreau, 47, said.In his house, the whole family managed to escape safely from the dramatic moment after hiding in a nearby street.The police have already arrested the possible perpetrator of the events, a 22-year-old man identified as Robert E. Crimo III.The shooter had reportedly fled the scene armed in a silver 2010 Honda Fit car.“Jill and I are shocked by the senseless gun violence that has once again brought pain to an American community on this Independence Day.As always, we are grateful for the first responders and law enforcement on the scene.I have spoken with Governor Pritzker and Mayor Rotering, and I have offered the full support of the federal government to their communities,” President Joe Biden said in a speech Monday.“I recently signed the first major bipartisan gun reform legislation in nearly thirty years, including actions that will save lives.But there is much more work to be done, and I am not going to stop fighting the gun violence epidemic," he added.It is a space dedicated to all Cubans in order to unite through debate with respect, entertainment and nostalgia in difficult times for the people of Cuba.Our mission is to inform and entertain every Cuban around the world.