Robert Crimo III, the shooter in the Highland Park incident during the Fourth of July parade, has been given a life sentence in prison.

The gunman responsible for the deaths of seven individuals during the 2022 Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, received a lifelong prison sentence without the chance of parole, with the presiding judge deeming him as “irreversibly corrupted and past the point of rehabilitation.”

Robert E. Crimo III, aged 24, was sentenced to seven consecutive life imprisonment terms without the possibility of parole for the first-degree murder charges he admitted to last month.

“There are no words that could accurately convey and express the terror and anguish that transpired on July 4th,” affirmed Lake County Judge Victoria Rossetti during the announcement of the verdict.

She described Crimo as having “a complete disregard for human life” and being someone who “is irretrievably depraved, permanently incorrigible, irreparably corrupt and beyond any rehabilitation,” according to the Associated Press. 

The seat of Robert Crimo III, who did not appear, is empty at the defense table during his sentencing hearing at the Lake County Courthouse in Waukegan, Illinois, on Wednesday, April 23. (AP/Nam Y. Huh)

Crimo allegedly climbed on a roof above the Fourth of July parade in downtown Highland Park, 30 miles north of Chicago, and opened fire on spectators with a legally purchased Smith & Wesson M&P 15 rifle. 

The seven victims who died in the shooting are Jacki Sundheim, 63; Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, 78; Irina McCarthy, 35, and Kevin McCarthy, 37; Katherine Goldstein, 64; Stephen Straus, 88; and Edwardo Uvaldo, 69. 

Robert E. Crimo III speaks to Lake County’s assistant public defender Anton Trizna as he appears for a hearing before Judge Victoria A. Rossetti at the Lake County Courthouse in June 2024. (Photo by Nam Y. Huh-Pool/Getty Images)

Crimo’s father, Robert Crimo Jr., a former mayoral candidate, was charged in connection with how his son obtained a gun license. He pleaded guilty in 2023 to seven misdemeanor counts of reckless conduct. He served less than two months in jail.