“That was the person Anthony was, so a lot of people might have considered Anthony one of their only true friends,” Rebollar said. She came to realize that Anthony, who had mental health issues himself and easily empathized with others, attracted people who didn’t have many friends or were loners. Still, Rebollar was surprised when Crimo shared words at Anthony’s service. “If you get to the point where you want to kill people in your hometown, where you learned to skateboard, like what happened?” “So what happened between then and now?” she said. She believes much of Crimo’s internet presence, which included disturbing social media posts and rap songs, was more recent. There’s no justification, he could have got help, he could have told somebody, but if you’ve never had somebody to tell, how do you even know who to tell, if no one’s ever been there for you?” “It’s kind of touching, and I don’t want to be touching about a mass murderer, you know?” she said. “He probably loved Bobby and probably did whatever he could for him.”Īfter reviewing the footage of Crimo speaking about Anthony, Rebollar believes it shows Crimo’s state of mind five years ago. “Because he would never have done anything like this to anybody,” Rebollar said. “It broke my heart that my son, who was the most gentle spirit in the world, who would have carried a bug out of the house rather than kill it … that somehow he would be connected in some way, shape, or form just is horrific.” Rebollar didn’t initially want to speak about Crimo, but she also doesn’t want her son’s name dragged through the mud as a mass shooter’s only friend. “His son now can’t sleep and is having night terrors,” she said. And she’s friends with one man, Alexander Sandoval, who hid his son in a dumpster during the chaos of the shooting. She knows people who were killed at the parade. Now Rebollar is grappling with how a quiet kid who spent time at Highland Park’s skatepark with her sons could have committed a crime so monstrous, one that stole the lives of two parents to a young toddler, the lives of grandparents, and mothers.
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