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The mother of the Highland Park shooter has been seen for the first time since her son shot dead seven people at a Fourth of July parade.
DailyMail.com spotted Denise Pesina, 48, arriving at her single-family home in Highland Park, Illinois, Wednesday afternoon with her white Smart filled with shopping bags from Target.
Just three hours earlier her son Bobby Crimo, 21, appeared in Lake County Court via Zoom to face seven counts of first-degree murder.
Pesina angrily refused to answer questions from DailyMail.com about her son and Monday's massacre as she unloaded her car. Instead she gave a reporter her attorney's business card.
DailyMail.com spotted Robert Crimo's mother Denise Pesina, 48, arriving at her single-family home in Highland Park, Illinois, Wednesday afternoon
Pesina angrily refused to answer questions from DailyMail.com about her son and Monday's massacre as she unloaded her car of groceries
Crimo, 21, is expressionless in a mugshot that was released Wednesday morning. He is wearing a black t-shirt with his dark hair draped over one of his eyes. His cheek and neck tattoos are on full display
DailyMail.com previously revealed that Crimo and his younger brother were often left behind at their afterschool program because their 'flighty' mom forgot to pick them up or their dad was at work
Crimo went to his mom's house and borrowed her car after the shooting and drove to Madison, Wisconsin
Police said they had no indication that Pesina knew her son was the shooter when she agreed to let him take the vehicle
Dressed in a bohemian-style multi-colored skirt and green tank top, Pesina made two trips from the car to get all her bags of groceries
Dressed in a bohemian-style multi-colored skirt and green tank top, Pesina made two trips from the car to get all her bags of groceries.
Pesina and husband Bob, 58, are not believed to have been at the courthouse when their son appeared via the electronic link.
The couple live apart. Pesina lives a little over a mile from the scene of the shooting, while Crimo's father has a home in Highwood, Illinois, where the shooter lived until his arrest.
Later in the afternoon Crimo’s father Bob Crimo Jr. arrived at his nearby home in Highwood with two law enforcement officers, and was pictured exclusively by DailyMail.com.
The dad led the officers, one of them with a pistol tucked in his waistband, to the separate apartment at the back of the property where the shooter lived.
All three were there for a few minutes before emerging at 4.50pm local time.
Bob, in a black t-shirt and blue jeans, headed straight for his blue Nissan Rogue before backing out and driving off. The officers headed in a different direction in a silver Chevrolet Suburban.
At Wednesday's court appearance, Crimo spoke softly to tell the court that he did not have a lawyer, and to ask for a public defender. He was dressed in all-black, wore his long dark hair draped over one eye and shifted on his feet as he appeared via Zoom from a room in the Lake County Jail.
Highland Park shooter Robert Crimo with his mom Denise Pesina
He was denied bond by Judge Theodore Potkonjak, and will remain in custody until his next court date on July 25th.
It was revealed that Crimo went to his mom's house and borrowed her car after the shooting. He drove to Madison, Wisconsin, and happened upon another July 4 celebration before he was
