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   The seventh person to die in the Highland Park parade mass   
   shooting was a grandfather of 16 who was injured alongside two   
   other family members — including his wife of 50 years.   
      
   Eduardo Uvaldo, 69, had spent a day on life support after being   
   shot in the back of the head, with his family begging for   
   prayers. His wife and one of his 16 grandkids were also injured,   
   an online fundraiser said.   
      
   He died in an Evanston hospital at 8 a.m. Wednesday, nearly 24   
   hours after the mass shooting in his Illinois hometown, his   
   family confirmed.   
      
   “Thank you to everyone who prayed for my dad and my family. This   
   morning he passed,” one of his daughters, Tanya Uvaldo Castro,   
   confirmed in a Facebook post.   
      
   “We are heartbroken but are at peace because we know he wouldn’t   
   want to be here in the state that he was. He passed peacefully.”   
      
   She later shared photos showing the devoted granddad at previous   
   Fourth of July parades in the Chicago suburb, saying that he   
   “loved” them.   
      
   “These photos here show that we always attended the parade,” she   
   said, saying they “got there early” this year to make sure they   
   didn’t miss any of it.   
      
   “I don’t know how we are going to do it without you,” the   
   grieving daughter said.   
      
   A granddaughter, Nivia Guzman, called him “a kind, loving, and   
   funny man who did not deserve this” in a fundraiser that has   
   collected more than $80,000 by Thursday.   
      
   Uvaldo’s wife of 50 years, Maria, was also struck with bullet   
   fragments in the head, family friend Jackie Tapia told the   
   Chicago Sun-Times.   
      
   The widow “is devastated at the moment, and there is nothing   
   that can calm her down,” Tapia said. “As for her injuries,   
   they’re minor, so she should recover. She’s just overwhelmed   
   now.”   
      
   She said the family — which the Chicago Tribune said included 16   
   grandkids — started running as soon as they heard gunshots.   
      
   “The son-in-law saw [Uvaldo] and tried to protect him, shielding   
   him with his body, but he had already been hit,” Tapia said.   
      
   The grandson who was struck has since been discharged from a   
   hospital, along with his grandmother.   
      
   Some of the dozens wounded Monday remained hospitalized in   
   critical condition and the death toll could still rise, police   
   have warned.   
      
   Gunman Robert Crimo III, 21, has since confessed to the   
   shooting, police said. He has been charged with seven counts of   
   first-degree murder, and prosecutors said there will be “many,   
   many more charges coming.”   
      
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