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Six Dead, Suspect Arrested In Illinois Shooting; Russia Targets New Target In Ukraine; Ukrainian P.M. Lays Out $750B Plan For Post-War Recovery; ; Griner's Freedom Letter to Biden; U.S. Findings on Killing of Journalist; Akron Police Shooting; Enforced Curfew to Protesters After Police Shooting; Family of Jayland Walker Wants Justice; Denmark Mall Shooting; Death of Shireen Abu Akleh; July 4th Parade Shooting; Chicago Sports Teams React to Shooting; Robert Crimo in Custody After Highland Park Shooting. Aired 2-3a ET

Aired July 05, 2022 - 02:00   ET

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. Police and the FBI is trying to figure out why a man in his early 20s opened fire on a 4th of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois. We have to warn you video of the scene is disturbing.

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CHURCH (voice over): Five people died at the scene and a sixth person later in the hospital in this suburb north of Chicago. More than two dozen others went to the hospital with gunshot wounds, most have since been released. Police say they believe Robert Cremo III open fire from the roof of a building along the parade route. They say they recovered firearm evidence from the scene.

Cremo was arrested a few hours later not far away in Lake Forest, Illinois. He led police on a brief car chase but eventually was taken into custody without incident. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker says he's furious that more innocent lives have been taken by gun violence.

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GOV. J.B. PRITZKER (D-IL): It is devastating that a celebration of America was ripped apart by our uniquely American plague. A day dedicated to freedom has put into stark relief. The one freedom we as a nation refused to uphold. The freedom of our fellow citizens to live without the daily fear of gun violence.

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CHURCH: And earlier, a father who witnessed the attack described the initial panic and confusion after shots started ringing out.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JEFF LEON, WITNESS: We heard -- it sounded like a string of

firecrackers going off inside of a big metal trash bin. And at first, that's what I thought it was. 20, 30 maybe. And then I looked up to my right. And I saw the police starting to act. And I saw people falling. And my wife and I took off. And directly behind the store we are sitting in front of this parking lot. And so we started sort of, you know, going from car to car running.

We were at the parade because our 14-year-old twin boys are marching with the high school football team. And we knew they hadn't yet made their way up the parade route. And so we were going to try to get them. And after about 10 minutes of this sort of duck and hide, duck and hide people were seemingly calmly walking away from the scene. And we passed a man who was leaning against an apartment building who had an obvious fairly deep bullet graze wound along the right side of his head above the temple.

And that was the point when they knew it for sure it wasn't firecrackers. It was a shooting which is just inconceivable in a community like Highland Park, Illinois.

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CHURCH: More now from CNN's Adrienne Broaddus.

ADRIENNE BROADDUS, CNNCORRESPONDENT: And investigators say it was a North Chicago police officer who found that 22-year-old, investigators believe who is responsible for this crime scene behind me. That officer called for backup. There was a short vehicle pursuit. Investigators say they took that 22-year-old into custody without incident. Meanwhile, earlier in the day, we did hear from people who were attending the parade, including one woman who sheltered behind a dumpster. Listen in.

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ZOE PAWELCZAK, WITNESS: I saw people shot and killed around me and a lot of people hiding/

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PAWELCZAK: A man actually went at one point to find his son and he asked me to watch his kids. So we were all hiding behind the dumpster together and the kids, you know, really little kids, they're like, what's going on? I'm like, it's just fireworks, you know, people get silly with fireworks and I just stayed with them for about half an hour while the guy was out looking for his older son.

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BROADDUS: She also shared with us that father before taking off to look for his other son put his children inside of the dumpster for protection. Meanwhile, six people were shot and killed. Five of them died on scene here. A dozen of others injured. The motive still unclear. Adrienne Broaddus, CNN, Highland Park, Illinois. CHURCH: Earlier, Highland Park Police identified the suspect as being 22-years-old, but a later FBI bulletin reported he was 21. CNN has reached out with authorities for more information.

Well, joining me now from Los Angeles, CNN law enforcement contributor and retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent Steve Moore. Steve, thank you so much for being with us.

STEVE MOORE, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT CONTRIBUTOR: Thank you.

CHURCH: So, the shooting suspect is now thankfully in custody and investigators are trying to figure out his motivation for carrying out this atrocious attack. One way they're doing that is looking at music videos that he apparently made and posted online, featuring ominous lyrics and animated scenes of gun violence. One showing a cartoon image resembling the suspect in tactical gear, carrying out an attack with a rifle.

Another video shows that same cartoon image of him lying face down and a pool of blood surrounded by police with guns drawn. So how does material like this help investigators figure out a motive?

MOORE: Well, it helps them a lot in that it shows where his mind was, in the months and maybe even years leading up to this attack. The problem is, not everybody who shows this kind of violent product on the internet is somebody who is going to be violent. But in this case, it helps them piece it together in hindsight, which is not a lot of value when people have been killed. So, we as law enforcement have to learn how to take these indications and determine when the indications like this are the real thing when this person is potentially violent.

CHURCH: And of course, that's clearly problematic, isn't it? Because the suspect posted these music videos on several major streaming outlets and on a personal Web site. And yet, no one appears to a flag this young man as a threat. So what are the information helps investigators find a motive and of course, build a case against the suspect?

MOORE: Well, it's -- you're going to have to get into psychological evaluations. But going back to all of his posts, e-mails back and forth, they're going to go into every single communication he's had. And like we unfortunately found in -- after Uvalde shooting, I suspect that we will find that this person had communicated with other people, had given much more overt indications of violence than we would find just on his general internet or social media feed. And we're going to have to start as a society and as a culture picking this up earlier.

CHURCH: Yes. I mean, it is -- it is so -- such a problem, though, isn't it? His own uncle described him as very much a loner, no friends, so it's hard to imagine there would be a lot of back and forth if he didn't appear to have a network of friends. I did want to talk to you about the governor of Illinois who says this is a uniquely American problem. He called it a plague. So what needs to be done right now to prevent this from happening again?

Particularly preventing these young white men because it apparently appears to be them getting access to these assault weapons and killing people on mass, which is happening again and again, it seems?

MOORE: Well, first of all, and I think we've taken baby steps in this direction, keeping assault rifles, things like that from people 18, 19 and 20 years old. The complication in this in this event is that the person is 21. Even with the laws that are being proposed, he would have been legally allowed to have this except in Highland Park or Chicago where he was. That gun that he used today is already illegal. So we get back to the point of if we can't enforce it, what good are the laws.

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CHURCH: This is the problem, isn't it? I mean, I was recently in Germany and the situation for anyone using a gun Germany and a lot of other European countries is they have to sit tests, they have to go through stringent tests to have access to a gun, if they want to use it for hunting purposes. Why isn't there a system in place like that in this country? It seems so incredibly easy to get access to these guns.

And then of course, when you're talking about an automatic weapon that has the capability of killing masses of people, it just seems an outrageous situation for certainly those of us who don't come from America.

MOORE: Well, it's I hope it's an outrageous situation for Americans. I -- honestly, Rosemary, I think what we've got to -- the problem we have is that one -- neither side trusts the other. Whether you're talking about the people who believe -- who strongly believe in the Second Amendment and their ability to legally own guns, and the people who believe that this kind of thing is the result of guns being in society, neither side trusts each other.

And that keeps either side from compromising. And it's going to take and I can't write the roadmap out here. But there has to be compromise. We all have to move to the middle. Because neither side is going to have a really extreme victory in this one. We're not going to get guns just for sale in vending machines. And at the same time, you're not going to have guns removed from society, at least in my lifetime.

So, we've got to move to the middle and get common sense -- common Sense agreement on how we can stop things quickly.

CHURCH: Yes. I mean, more than 300 mass shootings in this country this year, and we're only halfway there. It just seems extraordinary, doesn't it? Steve Moore, thank you so much for joining us. Appreciate it.

MOORE: Thank you.

CHURCH: Well, more on the deadly shooting in Illinois just ahead including reaction from U.S. President Joe Biden, who says more needs to be done to fight gun violence here in the United States.

Plus, the front lines are shifting in Ukraine as Russian forces win a critical victory and set their sights on a new target. We're back with that and more in just a moment.

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SEN. DICK DURBIN (D-IL): There are people around this country who are poised to do terrible things if we do not intervene and try to change their lives. Some of them we know has children who need that kind of a helping hand. I don't know the circumstances with this gentleman. And I'm not going to say anything about him. But that is one of the things that we just did with this gun bill.

The gun bill that we passed in the Senate, the bipartisan gun bill addresses many of the aspects of these mass shooters. And some of that involves mental health counseling, trauma counseling. We've got to reach out at an early age to turn these labs around. Once we see the clear indicators. And what will happen in this circumstance with this particular individual. I don't know. I just don't know his story. But I will tell you that that part of the bill is important for the future.

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CHURCH: Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois speaking out after a mass shooting in his state during a 4th of July parade. At least six people were killed and more than two dozen injured when shots rang out in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park. Police believed the gunfire came from a rooftop of a business as the parade was underway. The suspect identified as Robert Cremo III, was arrested after an intense manhunt.

Authorities say he was spotted by a North Chicago officer then taken into custody after a brief car chase. Police say a high-powered rifle was used in the attack, which they described as random and intentional.

U.S. President Joe Biden said he and the First Lady was shocked by the senseless gun violence that has hit another American community. Mr. Biden responding to another mass shooting in the U.S. ahead of events marking Independence Day. CNN's Phil Mattingly has more now from Washington.

PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: President Biden like every other American had -- what he expected to be a celebration of the nation, July 4th celebration shattered. Once again in his administration. The administration who has seen so many mass shootings -- so many mass shootings that actually led to the most substantive gun reform law in more than 30 years of bipartisan law.

The president signed into law just a couple of weeks ago. Now experiencing another one. The President getting on the phone with the Illinois Governor, with the mayor of Highland Park, pledging federal resources and surging federal law enforcement for that manhunt. He acknowledged the shooting in his July 4th remarks for picnic of service members on the South Lawn. Take a listen.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Before I left for Europe, I signed a law, the first real gun safety law in 30 years. And things will get better still, but not without more hard work together. You all heard what happened. You all heard what happened today. But each day we're reminded there's nothing guaranteed about our democracy. Nothing guaranteed about our way of life. We have to fight for it, defend it, and earn it by voting.

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MATTINGLY: The president also held a moment of silence for those killed and injured during that shooting later during the musical performance again that the picnic The celebration The 4th of July continuing here at the White House, but so is the sorrow, the recognition that this just keeps happening. The president in his statement acknowledging that more needs to be done.

Certainly an accomplishment already on gun safety but when it comes to gun violence is such a pervasive problem in the country.

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MATTINGLY: The president making clear that what they've done so far isn't enough.

Phil Mattingly, CNN, the White House.

CHURCH: And back in Highland Park, Illinois. People attending the parade describe the horrifying moments and confusion that unfolded after shots rang out.

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JEFF KRAINES, WITNESS: We were at the beginning of the parade. Heard what we thought was sick joke of gunshots. People started running towards us, weren't really sure what was going on because we thought it was just a prank and (INAUDIBLE) too many people started coming. Ran out with everyone else.

LARRY BLOOM, WITNESS: And then we'd all have like a pop, pop, pop. And I think everybody just thought, oh, maybe there's something with the float. They're doing something on the float. And then it just -- it just opened up, just a reign of gunshots just so quickly, for quite a while, at least it seemed.

ANGELA SENDIK, WITNESS: And then we walked a little closer and I saw someone like on the ground with his leg in the air and the girl like crying next to him. And then to my left, my mom and I saw like at least three more people on the ground like bloody and then naturally like we just started running towards our car.

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CHURCH: And we're also following a developing story in Philadelphia where two police officers were shot during 4th of July celebrations a few hours ago. Authorities say both officers suffered graze wounds. One to the head and the other to the shoulder. They were taken to the hospital where they were treated and released. No one has been arrested but social media video shows crowds of people running down the street where a concert and fireworks were taking place.

Police say they're following up on leads but asking for anyone with information to come forward.

Coming up next. Akron, Ohio is on edge as officials brace for more protests over the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man. We are following the latest developments.

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CHURCH: Police in Highland Park, Illinois say they have arrested the man believed to have opened fire on a 4th of July parade, killing six people. More than two dozen others were wounded. The crowd went running for cover when gunshots rang out from the rooftop of a building along the parade route. Police arrested Robert Cremo III, a few hours later after a brief chase. Investigators say they recovered firearm evidence from the scene of the shooting.

And CNN spoke with a woman who says she was near the center of the shooting area right across the street from where police believe the shooter was located. The woman says the gunshots first sounded like fireworks. But a bad feeling prompted her to grab her father and take cover.

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ZOE PAWELCZAK, SHOOTING WITNESS: I saw wonderful parade turned into a very scary moment. I saw people shot and killed around me. And a lot of people hiding. A man actually went at one point to find his son and he asked me to watch his kids. So we were all hiding behind a dumpster together and the kids, you know, really little kids, they're like, what's going on? I'm like, it's just fireworks. You know, people get silly with fireworks and I just stayed with them for about half an hour while the guy was out looking for his older son.

The dad ended up putting his children in the dumpster to hide and stay safe. And there was probably 30 of us just hiding in this little corner behind the dumpsters. My dad and I ended up going up on the roof to hide behind this large air conditioning units. And right across the street, I guess is where they're saying the shooter might have been. And I told my dad like don't look up, don't look out after the -- over that.

It sounded it was the loudest thing I've heard. That's not like natural. It was a loud poo, poo, poo, pooo. And it was just endless. So it was probably -- at least 50, my dad thinks it was 100. I think it was 50 at least. But just an endless poo, poo, poo, poo, poo, poo, poo. Just this loud bang. It sounded like if you're standing on top of a firework that's just endlessly going.

I just had a bad feeling. It's just seemed uncanny. And I'd watched fireworks the night before, actually. And I'm like this is too fast. And I just grabbed my dad. And we ran and suddenly everyone was running behind us and people were just shot behind us. And they let us go back to get our car keys and everything and right where we were there was a girl just dead. Another man was shot in the ear, blood all over his face.

It sounded like it was coming right next to us. And apparently it might have been either on the roof or right -- it was probably within 100 feet from us by can't tell if they were from above or on the ground. But right where we were where they're showing all over the news downtown right now. I mean, we could see the exact spot we were sitting and that's where people die like someone less than four arm lengths for me just shot felt. And it was it was just so surreal. It's complete shock.

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CHURCH: And we will of course continue to bring you more updates on this story.

Russian forces appear to be setting their sights on a new target after a critical victory in eastern Ukraine. On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated his troops for capturing the last Ukrainian stronghold in the Luhansk region. And Ukraine says the battle is now shifting to the Donetsk region as Russia seeks to capture the entire Donbas. This as Russian backed separatists accused Ukraine of attacking the city of Donetsk. Part of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.

Officials there say at least three people were killed and dozens more wounded in the attack. Video posted to social media appears to show some of the aftermath. But CNN cannot independently verify its authenticity. As the fighting continues, Ukraine is already looking towards its post war future, unveiling a $750 billion reconstruction plan during a conference in Switzerland.

In a virtual address, Ukraine's president called rebuilding his country the greatest possible contribution to maintaining global peace.

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VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE (through translator): The reconstruction of Ukraine is not a local project.

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It's not a project of one nation but a common task of the entire democratic world. All countries, you can say, that they are civilized. To rebuild Ukraine means to restore the principles of life. To restore the space for life and to restore what makes people human. Of course, it means large-scale construction. Of course, it means funding and colossal investment. Of course, it means a whole new level of security for our country which will continue to live alongside Russia.

(END VIDEO CLIP) CHURCH: And for more, let's bring in CNN's Scott McLean. He joins us live from Kyiv.

Good to see you, Scott. Russian-backed separatists reporting new strikes on the city of Donetsk. What else do you know unless?

SCOTT MCLEAN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, so, these strikes, they say, killed three people, injured dozens more, and they included a strike that caught a railyard on fire and actually caught a passenger train -- several cars of a passenger train on fire. Though, miraculously no one was killed.

Now, there is an unverified video showing some burnt-out buildings and some fires still burning in, what looks to be, an abandoned market in that area. Now, it is difficult to verify anything coming out of this region. But local media says that schools, apartment buildings, and houses were all damaged in this attack.

Now, that the Russians have taken the entire Luhansk region, it doesn't seem like they're wasting a lot of time, Rosemary, in moving on to the Donetsk region. Also, the Ukrainians have reported shelling, heavy shelling along the front line to the North in the direction of Sloviansk, a city in the Northern part of the Donetsk region. There is also heavy shelling reported in the Southern region, as well.

There are also missile strikes reported outside that region altogether, Mykolaiv, Dnipro. Though in that case, the local officials there say that there were seven missiles fired overnight. Six of them were shot down though one of them managed to start a fire inside of the city.

CHURCH: All right. Scott McLean joining us live from Kyiv, many thanks for that.

Well, now I want to bring in Yuriy Sak. He is an adviser to Ukraine's Minister of Defense and he joins us from the Western part of the country. Thank you so much for being with us.

YURIY SAK, ADVISER TO UKRAINIAN DEFENSE MINISTER: Thank you for inviting me.

CHURCH: So, Russia is celebrating victory over the Luhansk region and is now preparing to do the same in the Donetsk region with the aim of capturing the entire Donbas. How will Ukraine respond to this?

SAK: First of all, I would like to emphasize that at the beginning of this aggressive war, Russia was saying that they will concur the whole of Ukraine in a couple of days. And it took them seven weeks to, basically, fight for Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, the cities in the Luhansk region.

And this battle for these two cities, which are very close to each other, and if you look at the map, they literally constitute a district of one city, right. So, seven weeks of heavy fighting. And the military objective of the Ukrainian armed forces has been in this operation, first of all, to exhaust the enemy. To incur as much losses upon the enemy, as much as possible, and to sustain as fewer losses as possible for themselves.

Of course, from the very beginning of the battle for these two cities, the Ukrainian army knew that we were outgunned and we were outmanned. But nevertheless, for seven long weeks, we have been resisting this invasion. And now, when the time came, our military command has made a decision -- a tactical decision to withdraw temporarily from these cities and to regroup and to fortify our defenses on other prepared defense lines.

And so, from this perspective, Russia has not achieved its military objective which from the very beginning was to encircle and destroy the Ukrainian army in that region.

CHURCH: So, do you feel that Russia has restructured its goal here from the whole of Ukraine to just the Eastern part? Is that your sense?

SAK: I wouldn't go as far as to suggest that Russia gave up. They're willing to invade and concur the whole of Ukraine and maybe go even further West because we're hearing all the time the -- these threats from the Russian leadership, with respect to other Western countries, Poland, the Baltic State, Moldova. And this is why we continue to say that Ukraine is here fighting for the European values of democracy and freedom. We are fighting to protect, not just our land but as well European continent overall. So, from this perspective, of course, it is difficult to believe that Russia gave up their goals.

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At the same time, Ukrainian army does not allow Russia to realize their military objectives. Though -- so, they have to make do with what they can. And we believe that we have exhausted them so much that, hopefully, their offensive potential has decreased now.

But like you have been saying in your report earlier, the attacks continue and the next target of the Russian aggressor is likely to be the rest of the Donetsk region. Cities such as Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, which are already suffering from heavy artillery shelling, from missile strikes. And Ukrainian army is preparing to protect those cities now.

CHURCH: So, what does Ukraine need to push Russia back, or is there an inevitably here that Russia will end up controlling the entire Donbas region? Because in the end, this is really -- it's taken all of this time for Russia to experience some success and it is in the east, isn't it?

SAK: It's incremental success, yes, with certain gains. But we also have to say that the Ukrainian army, at the same time, has certain success in other parts of the temporarily occupied territories of our country. In the south of Ukraine, for example, in the Kherson region, we've also been able to liberate the Snake Island in the Black Sea region. We are also having certain successes in the area around the second largest city Kharkiv.

So, from this perspective, in some places we are losing ground, in some places we are counterattacking already with the help of the military support that we are receiving. And we are gaining ground. We are deep occupying our cities.

Now, of course, we need more heavy weaponry and we need to receive it faster. And this is something, you know, we are afraid we sound repetitive because we repeat these claims every day. We repeat these requests every day. But this is something that everybody should understand. Ukrainian army is highly motivated, highly professional, and capable of stopping this war spreading further West in Europe. But at the same, time we can only do that if we get the tools. If we get the heavy weaponry that we request.

The MRLS systems, the tanks, the air defense systems, and of course, combat aircraft. The sooner we get them, the sooner this nightmare for the whole of Europe will end. And, you know, people will be able to live again in peace.

CHURCH: And Russian-backed separatists are accusing Ukraine of attacking the City of Donetsk. What's your response to that?

SAK: Everything to do with the tactics and strategy is purely decided by the general staff of the armed forces of Ukraine. And, of course, if there have been military strikes conducted on certain warehouses where Russians have been stockpiling the missiles which they're launching on Ukraine incessantly. Only today, in the morning, there have been seven missiles that were fired at the City of Dnipro. And you know, in the last couple of days, we've counted, there have been over 160 missiles that were fired by Russia at the Ukrainian cities -- at peaceful Ukrainian cities and residential areas.

So, one thing that I have to say for sure is that Ukrainian army values humanlike very highly and this is why we never, we never target civilian areas. So, whenever Russians claim that some civilian areas have been hit by the Ukrainian armed forces, these are always fakes which are usually corroborated later by the Ukrainian intelligence services. Because we get the phone interceptions and we can hear the Russian army themselves admitting to carrying out these strikes.

So, we target only military targets and -- unlike our enemy. Unlike these war criminals, who from day one of this war, have been destroying Ukrainian residential areas, kindergartens, hospitals. And we are sure that one day they will stand trial for all of these war crimes.

CHURCH: Yuri Sak, thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it.

SAK: Thank you. Thank you very much.

CHURCH: Well, WNBA star Brittney Griner says she is terrified she might be in a Russian jail forever. Griner expressed her fears in a handwritten letter that was delivered to U.S. President Joe Biden Monday morning. She begged Mr. Biden not to forget about her and other detainees.

The 31-year-old Phoenix Mercury basketball player was arrested at Moscow Airport back in February about a week before Russia invaded Ukraine. Authorities claim Griner had cannabis oil in her luggage. Griner's teammates and other supporters are calling on the White House to do more to bring her home.

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SHEY PEDDY, PHOENIX MERCURY GUARD: She should be here with us. Biden, hopefully he reads the letter and he helps assess the situation. But she should be here. We miss her. Free BG.

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JAMES WADE, CHICAGO SKY HEAD COACH AND GENERAL MANAGER: They know where BG is. She's been there for four months. They know that. Why do we have to sign a petition? Like, why? Let's pretend, like, it's Tom Brady. Would we have to sign a petition then?

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CHURCH: Britney Griner went on trial in Russia on Friday on drug smuggling charges. She is facing up to 10 years in prison.

Well, nearly two months after Shireen Abu Akleh was shot dead, the U.S. has finally weighed in on how the Palestinian-American journalist was killed and who's to blame. That story and more when we return.

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CHURCH: Akron, Ohio is under a curfew right now after weekend protests over the fatal police shooting of Jayland Walker, an unarmed black man. Police say, the majority of protesters were peaceful but the mayor says there was significant property damage after nightfall. About 50 people were arrested for failing to comply with the curfew.

All this comes just hours after officials released body cam footage showing the final moments of walker's life. CNN's Polo Sandoval has more now from Akron.

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POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voiceover): Authorities in the city of Akron released about 18 minutes of body camera videos. Each minute offering a different perspective, showing eight responding officers before they opened fire, shooting, and killing Jayland Walker.

After the release of the footage, Akron's police chief said, those officers will have to be accountable for each one of the shots they fired.

CHIEF STEPHEN MYLETT, AKRON POLICE DEPARTMENT: They need to be able to articulate what specific threats they were facing. And that goes for every round that goes down the barrel of their gun. And they need to be held to account.

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SANDOVAL (voiceover): Investigators, over the weekend, shared more about the possible perceived threat the officers faced during the pursuit. Including a single gunshot that allegedly came from inside Walker's car while police were chasing his vehicle. They say this muzzle flash image captured by State traffic cameras is evidence. And investigators later recovered a shell casing at that scene.

It was shortly after the car chase turned foot chase, that you could see in this video, those eight officers opened fire with a barrage of bullets. Officers described Walker reaching for his waistband right before they shot him, according to the police chief. Walker was unarmed at the time of the shooting. The Akron Police Union released a statement saying, the decision to deploy lethal force as well as the number of shots fired is consistent with use of force protocols and officers' training.

The medical examiner's report showed Walker's body had at least 60 wounds as a result of gunfire. Walker's family attorney --

BOBBY DICELLO, JAYLAND WALKER'S FAMILY ATTORNEY: If you have a gun on you, and you drop your weapon and leave, and you see him running across the parking lot, you can't drop him and sees his body with bullets.

SANDOVAL (voiceover): After the release of body cam footage nearly a week after the shooting --

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Justice for Jayland. Justice for Jayland.

SANDOVAL (voiceover): Tensions flared sparking a fourth day of protests in Akron.

ROBERT DEJOURNETT, JAYLAND WAS HIS COUSIN'S SON: What I did see is, you know, him getting out of the car and started running and people firing on him. It doesn't take that much.

SANDOVAL (voiceover): Walker's family says they want to get justice for Jayland in a peaceful and dignified way.

DEJOURNETT: We don't want any rioting or anything like that. We want to -- we want answers. We feel that -- the pain. And, you know, personally, I want to scream out and be mad. But what is that going to do? We want to take that anger. We want to use it for the benefit of systemic change.

SANDOVAL (voiceover): Polo Sandoval, CNN, Akron, Ohio.

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CHURCH: Well gun violence has shaken people in Denmark in the wake of a rare shooting in Copenhagen. A Danish man is being held in a psychiatric facility for 24 days. As police say, he is suspected of killing three people and wounding several others at a shopping mall on Sunday. Social media footage shows people fleeing the mall and heavily armed law enforcement on the scene. One witness says, it was chaos.

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MAXIMILIAN VON RENTEIN, WITNESS: I mean, people didn't really know where they were running. They just -- even when they were outside of the mall, they were running in different directions and trying to find different routes and jumping over fences. It was quite chaotic.

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CHURCH: Authorities say the suspect was known to people in the psychiatric field. They added, there was no indication he was acting with others, nor was it an act of terror. But the investigation is ongoing.

Well, the U.S. says, Israeli military gunfire was likely responsible for the killing of Al Jazeera journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh. But the State Department says a forensic examination of the fatal bullet could not reach a definitive conclusion. And that finding is not sitting well with the Palestinian authority or Abu Akleh's family.

CNN's Hadas Gold has more now from Jerusalem.

HADAS GOLD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The statement from the U.S. State Department is important because it's the first time the Americans are seeking out any sort of position on who they believed killed Shireen Abu Akleh while she was covering an Israeli military raid in the West Bank in May. The State Department said a ballistic examination of the bullet extracted from her body was inconclusive because the bullet was so badly damaged. They did determine, though, that gunfire from Israeli military position was, "Likely responsible for her death. But that they have no reason to believe that she was intentionally targeted." They said it was rather likely the result of tragic circumstances during an IDF-led military operation against factions of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

The conclusion that it was likely, is really fired that killed the well-known journalists is the same as that of multiple independent investigations, including one conducted by CNN. But the Americans' conclusion is being met with anger by Palestinian authorities and Abu Akleh's family.

The Palestinian authority attorney generals' office said it was surprised by the statement. Saying they believed the bullet was good enough to be matched to the gun that was used. And a spokesperson for the Palestinian authority presidency called on the U.S. Administration to maintain its credibility and to hold Israel fully responsible. Abu Akleh's family said that they are incredulous.

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LINA ABU AKLEH, NIECE OF SHIREEN ABU AKLEH: We will continue to call for justice. We will continue to call on the U.S. to carry out a transparent investigation by an independent body. In addition, we continue to call on the UN and the ICC to carry out an investigation and hold Israel accountable and put an end to this grotesque impunity that Israel continues to enjoy. We call for justice for Shireen.

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GOLD: The Israeli Prime Minister, Yair Lapid, said that while the IDF has been unable to determine who was responsible for Abu Akleh's death, the military has determined conclusively, he says, that there was no intention to harm her. Israeli Defense Minister, Benny Gantz, though still pointed some blame on Palestinian militants.

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BENNY GANTZ, ISRAELI DEFENSE MINISTER: Unfortunately, it is not possible to determine the source of the shooting. And as such, the investigation will continue. It is important to emphasize that during this operation event, like in many others, hundreds of bullets were fired at IDF troops which responded with firepower of their own only in the direction of the sources of the shooting. The first to bear responsibility in such events are the terrorists who operate from within population centers.

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GOLD: The Israeli military operation said that any decision to launch a criminal investigation will be made following the conclusion of its own operational examination without specifying when they expect that to be completed. Hadas Gold, CNN, Jerusalem.

CHURCH: Still to come, Chicago professional sports team lend their support to those affected by the Illinois parade shooting. Their messages to the public when we return.

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CHURCH: New details are emerging about the suspect in the 4th of July mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois just outside of Chicago. Robert Crimo is now in custody but has yet to be charged. Investigators are combing through his social media. They say a significant amount of digital evidence, already points in his direction. We've since learned he posted violent imagery.

Authorities say the gunman used a high-powered rifle to fire on the parade crowd from the rooftop of a nearby business. At least six people were killed and about two dozen wounded. The victims have not yet been identified.

Well, professional sports teams from around Chicago are sharing their reactions to the tragedy online. The Cubs Major League Baseball team said, in part, "We are heartbroken and grief-stricken at the senseless violence in Highland Park."

In another statement, the Red Stars Women's Soccer Club said, they, "Mourned the lives lost to another senseless mass shooting." And among others, the Bears Football Team recognizes the, "Selfless acts from first responders and many citizens to help all in time of dire need."

And I want to thank you for joining us. I'm Rosemary Church. I'll be back with more news after this short break. You are watching CNN.

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