Just months after the deadly mass shooting at Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade, a survivor is sharing her story as the city’s assault weapons ban – which previously survived a challenge all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court – faces yet another legal battle.
“We heard a pop-pop-pop-pop-pop and I looked across the street – at first I thought it was fireworks,” Turnipseed recalled. “And then all of a sudden, I was hit by what felt like a sonic boom to my body and I was thrown to the ground."
Turnipseed was hit in the same flurry of gunfire where seven people died and 48 others were wounded. Lying on the ground, she said she turned and saw her 3-year-old daughter’s stroller on its side as bullets whizzed around her.Sign up for NBC Chicago newsletters. “Part of what I remember thinking is, we need to keep my daughter safe, and if I’m hit, that means my husband has to get her out of here, because we can’t leave my daughter without a parent,” Turnipseed said. “One of us has to live.”
It was a terrifying episode in what should have been a happy, peaceful day – in a town which, ironically, is one of only a handful of communities across Illinois that have implemented bans or any kind of local controls on assault weapons. “The city council wanted to take the most action that it could. And that was a complete ban,” said city attorney Steve Elrod, who was instrumental in the passage of Highland Park’s assault weapons ban in 2013, and was in that frightened crowd on the Fourth of July.
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