Highland Park shooting suspect's past littered with 'red flags'
“He was in his own world,” said 22-year-old Nick Pacileo.
Pacileo said he and Crimo bonded over skateboarding and were friends from eighth through 10th grade. He used words like “timid” and “quiet” to describe Crimo’s personality. He said the suspected rooftop sniper never talked about guns and would “zone out a lot.”
But when Crimo turned 18, around the time he broke up with his girlfriend, his personality changed, Pacileo said.
“Bobby was depressed,” Pacileo said. “He also went off the deep end after he broke up with his girlfriend a few years ago."
Crimo was obsessed with her, he said, and instead of therapy he turned to drugs.
“He definitely thought there was a border in the mind that needed to be broken through the mind,” he said. “Very third-eye type of stuff that kind of goes along with the psychedelic rap and drugs.”
Crimo also had a strained relationship with his parents, who struggled to make ends meet in the ritzy suburb, Pacileo said.
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