In Highland Park, generations have felt safe enough to leave their front doors unlocked and police haven’t investigated a single homicide since 1994.
Just weeks ago, more than 100 people had taken to the streets of downtown Highland Park to call for stronger gun control laws in the aftermath of the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Tex. They called out the names of other cities that had suffered horrific bloodshed: Newtown, Conn., Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Parkland, Fla., Buffalo.
Satellite trucks hummed nearby as reporters from across the country talked over each other in live shots. Lights from police cars flashed on the buildings, illuminating the empty lawn chairs and strollers left abandoned along the sidewalk where Belsky had often stood to watch the parade with his own kids when they were young.
His congregation and others had already been shaken by acts of violence against the Jewish community — most recently a January incident in which a gunman stormed a synagogue in Colleyville, Tex., in an hours-long hostage crisis.Moffic estimated that about 100 families — about half of his synagogue — were at Monday’s parade when gunfire erupted. A bullet hit one of his congregants, an older woman, embedding in her cheek. She survived.
The trauma has played out not only for people who were in the line of fire but friends and families of those who came very close to losing their lives.
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