'Thank God she was with me — three more seconds and those bullets could have been in me.'
Shawn Cotreau, 46, says there's one thing his three sons, 2, 9, and 11, look forward to every year: Visiting their grandparents in Highland Park, Illinois, and attending the annual 4th of July parade.Shawn Cotreau, whose wife led him and their children away from the shooting. His wife, Jacqueline, grew up in Highland Park, and her family has lived there for 34 years.
"I turn around, and I see this guy on a roof with a rifle," Cotreau says."And all of a sudden he just opens up, and all you could hear was : Just never stopping."Cotreau says in that moment, he could not move — he stared at the shooter as bullets hit a tree directly in front of him. "We didn't know if he was going to jump off the roof; we didn't know where he could be," he said."Finally, we heard the shooting stop so we made our way from that spot, which was probably only 100 or 200 feet from the shooting, to four blocks away and to our other car."
"They're struggling," he said."We had tickets last night to the White Sox — their grandfather takes them — and my oldest son didn't want to go. My younger son and my wife went with my father-in-law, and they said it was very tough — they were shooting off fireworks and that was jarring." "This is their comfort place, so I hope that they love coming back here and that this one person doesn't destroy everything," he said."My wife, she always tries to be strong — she's definitely the strongest one out of all of us," he said."I think it's stressing her; it's tensing her. She didn't see what I saw — I saw the shooter and I saw the bullets. She reacted to it. I saw it.
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