7th parade shooting victim named as grandfather who went every year

Joshua Davidovich is The Times of Israel's Deputy Editor

Authorities have identified the seventh victim of a mass shooting on July 4 in Highland Park, Illinois, as Eduardo Uvaldo, 69, Chicago’s NBC affiliate reports.

Uvaldo, from Waukegan, Illinois, north of Chicago, attended the parade every year with his family, according to a GoFundMe page set up by granddaughter Nivia Guzman.

According to Guzman, Uvaldo was shot in the arm and the back of the head. His wife, Maria, was also hospitalized with bullet fragments in her head.

Guzman says her brother was shot as well.

Uvaldo was pronounced dead early Wednesday.

“My grandpa is a kind, loving, and funny man who did not deserve this,” Guzman says.

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