A neighbor of the Highland Park mass capturing suspect revealed on Tuesday that she has a crush on the alleged killer and feels responsible about turning him down a number of years in the past.

“I’m simply interested by him,” Amy, who declined to supply her final identify, mentioned of the suspected assassin Robert “Bobby” Crimo III.

“I didn’t fall asleep final night time and I haven’t eaten for 2 days,” Amy instructed The Put up in a Tuesday night time interview.

The 21-year-old lives close to Crimo’s father’s house — however mentioned she first met Crimo, additionally 21, as a fast-food colleague at Panera in March 2020.

The pair grew to become mates once they labored on the eatery for a couple of month collectively earlier than the chain restaurant closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In that brief time, Amy and Crimo — who has been charged with seven counts of first-degree for the Fourth of July horror — developed emotions for each other, she mentioned.

“He mentioned he favored me,” Amy mentioned, however added that they by no means dated as a result of her “strict” dad and mom don’t permit her to.

“I used to be like however I don’t date. I can’t date,” she mentioned.

Nonetheless, working collectively gave her and Crimo loads of alternatives to speak and find out about one another’s pursuits.

“I felt like we’re the identical individual,” she mentioned. “We favored anime [and] related music.”

Amy mentioned she had no concept that Crimo, an aspiring rapper, took an curiosity in weapons and different weapons and hadn’t identified about his previous suicide try.

“He by no means instructed me about his social medias, or his mother, or political beliefs, proudly owning weapons or his suicide try,” she mentioned. “I by no means knew about that. Wanting again I believe he needed to maintain it from me.”

Amy mentioned Crimo, nonetheless, did discuss his dream to open a deli together with his father. In response to the Chicago Solar Occasions, his father owned and operated Bob’s Pantry & Deli in Highland Park from 2013 to 2018.

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Crimo reportedly mentioned he’d maintain off on the aspiration in order that he may proceed working at Panera with Amy.

She instructed him to not sacrifice his dream for her.

“I [didn’t] need to be in his approach,” she mentioned. “So I assumed perhaps if I ended speaking to him, he would do it.”

She frightened reducing ties with him made him offended. Finally, he stopped waving to greet her once they handed one another within the neighborhood.

“Daily I’d see him go by and he wouldn’t say hello or bye anymore,” Amy mentioned. “I really feel like I harm him. I really feel like I might need been one thing like a damaged glass that stabbed him, which may have harm him. So I really feel responsible that this occurred.”

She believes one thing should have damaged him to trigger him to exit and shoot harmless individuals — ensuing within the deaths of seven individuals.

“He was sort of just like the final individual I’d suspect,” Amy mentioned. “I really feel like clearly one thing pushed him to this.”

Crimo was charged on Tuesday with seven counts of first-degree homicide for his alleged parade bloodbath. He faces a compulsory life sentence if convicted.