Dad: Parade Suspect Talked About Mass Shooting Night Before Attack

Cheney Orr/ReutersThe night before Robert “Bobby” Crimo III allegedly carried out his premeditated attack at a Fourth of July Parade—where he is accused of murdering seven people and injuring dozens more—the 21-year-old mocked another mass shooter for his grisly attack, his father revealed.In a Wednesday interview with the New York Post, Robert Crimo Jr. said that on Sunday evening he and his son were discussing a mass shooting in Copenhagen, where an individual killed three people at a mall. The elder Crimo said his son called the shooter “an idiot” before adding: “People like that… [commit mass shootings] to amp up the people that want to ban all guns.”“I talked to him 13 hours before [the parade attack],” Crimo Jr. told the paper. “That’s why I guess I’m in such shock… Like, did he have a psychiatric break or something?”Read more at The Daily Beast.