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People at a memorial in Highland Park after the deadly shooting during the city’s annual Fourth of July parade.

Manuel Martinez

highland park shooting memorial

People at a memorial in Highland Park after the deadly shooting during the city’s annual Fourth of July parade.

Manuel Martinez

Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons

Highland Park shooting survivors continue push for gun reform, one year later

Within days of the shooting, survivors and community members looked into ways to turn their grief into action.

People at a memorial in Highland Park after the deadly shooting during the city’s annual Fourth of July parade.

Manuel Martinez
By Brenda Ruiz Micah Yason Andrew Meriwether
   

As we approach one year since the Highland Park parade mass shooting, Reset learns about how residents are working to end gun violence in Illinois and across the country.

GUESTS: Dr. Elliot Lieberman, physician leader with March Fourth; physician at North Shore Ear Nose and Throat Associates

Scott Tinkoff, board member of One Aim Illinois

Martin Rossen, board member of One Aim Illinois

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