2-year-old boy survives Highland Park massacre but is orphaned 0:45
(CNN) --
Sen. Tammy Duckworth told CNN she was at the Highland Park emergency operations center when police told the mayor of the discovery of a 2 1/2-year-old boy orphaned in the mass shooting of this Monday near Chicago.
"He was pulled from under his father, who was still bleeding, by good Samaritans," the senator said.
"Then they went to treat his father because his leg was still bleeding," Duckworth told CNN's John Berman on Wednesday.
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A couple then "picked him up (the boy) and took him to safety. His father died at the scene," according to Duckworth.
Kevin McCarthy, 37, died protecting his son, Aiden, the boy's grandfather, Michael Levberg, told the Chicago Sun-Times.
Levberg's daughter Irina, 35, McCarthy's wife and Aiden's mother, was also among the seven people who died while watching the parade.
"His father did everything he could to protect his son and he succeeded," Duckworth said.
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The victims of the 4th of July shooting
A day that was meant to be a day of celebration in the United States turned into tragedy and fear when a gunman killed seven people and injured dozens more at a parade in Highland Park, Illinois, near Chicago.
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The victims are the following:
Katherine Goldstein, 64, of Highland Park
Irina McCarthy, 35, of Highland Park
Kevin McCarthy, 37, of Highland Park
Jacquelyn Sundheim, 63, of Highland Park
Stephen Straus, 88, of Highland Park
Nicolás Toledo-Zaragoza, 78, of Morelos, Mexico
The seventh victim died at a hospital outside of Lake County, Banek told a news conference.
In all, about 45 people were injured in the shooting, Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli, spokesman for the Lake County Sheriff's Office, said at the news conference.
