Terrence Antonio James / baiduhaiStacey Portugal walks through the memorial for victims of the Highland Park Independence Day parade mass shooting with her son, Jacob Portugal, who lives in California, on Aug. 15, 2022.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiResidents deliver flowers and leave chalk messages at a new memorial for the seven victims on July 7, 2022, three days after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
Terrence Antonio James / baiduhaiKathy LaMorte maintains the memorial to the victims of the 2022 Independence Day shooting in Highland Park on July 25, 2022. She said she stops by twice a day, sometimes bringing a small speaker system to play soothing music.
Armando L. Sanchez / baiduhaiMembers of the community attend a vigil outside Highland Park City Hall on July 13, 2022, for the victims of the Fourth of July mass shooting.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiThe names of the seven victims of the mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park are seen at one of the memorials along Central Avenue on July 10, 2022.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiA letter left on July 10, 2022, at one of the memorials dedicated to the seven victims of the mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiSeven chairs hold pictures of the victims at a memorial in Port Clinton Square as residents return on July 10, 2022, six days after a mass shooting during the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiPeople add flowers to the growing memorial for victims near the Central Avenue scene, July 6, 2022, two days after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiSeven stones left for the victims at a memorial, July 6, 2022, in Highland Park.
Chris Sweda / baiduhaiMessages and roses adorn the podium as victims of the Fourth of July mass shooting are honored and ideas on gun violence prevention measures bring together people at a Highland Park community rally, led by organizer Rachel Jacoby, right, at Sunset Woods Park on July 9, 2022.
Antonio Perez / baiduhaiThe family of Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza mourn the loss of their family member at a growing memorial for the victims of the mass shooting in Highland Park on July 8, 2022.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiPeople leave flowers at a growing memorial for victims near the Central Avenue scene, July 6, 2022, two days after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
Chris Sweda / baiduhaiPeople light candles at a memorial set up at Central and St. Johns avenues in Highland Park on July 5, 2022.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiSeven empty chairs, for the seven people killed, make up part of a memorial where people participate in several minutes of silence at 10:14 a.m. on July 11, 2022, to mark exactly one week since the mass shooting during Highland Park's Fourth of July parade.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiFlowers and candles left at the Central Avenue memorial on July 6, 2022, in Highland Park.
Armando L. Sanchez / baiduhaiMietra Namdari places a ribbon on her 6-year-old son, Teddy McMillan, while attending a vigil outside Highland Park City Hall on July 13, 2022, for victims of the July Fourth mass shooting. Namdari and her children were at the parade the day seven people were killed and dozens of others were injured. "They obviously know what happened and they need to heal along with the rest of the community," Namdari said.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiPeople gather at 10:14 a.m. in Highland Park's Port Clinton Square for several minutes of silence on July 11, 2022, to mark exactly one week since a mass shooting killed seven at the city's Fourth of July parade.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiPortraits of the victims are included in a memorial in Port Clinton Square in Highland Park on July 10, 2022.
Armando L. Sanchez / baiduhaiPeople attend a vigil on July 6, 2022, in Everts Park in Highwood two days after seven people were killed and at least two dozen were wounded in Highland Park in a mass shooting during a Fourth of July parade.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiThe McCarthys are depicted with the other five victims at a memorial near Central Avenue on July 7, 2022, in Highland Park.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiItems are left in the memorial to the victims near the Central Avenue scene, July 6, 2022, two days after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
Armando L. Sanchez / baiduhaiElizabeth Vazquez, from left, hugs 8-year-old Abner Toledo while standing next to Ricardo Toledo, 35, and Anna Vazquez, 14, as they attend a vigil outside Highland Park City Hall on July 13, 2022, for victims of the July Fourth mass shooting. Ricardo's grandfather Nicolas Toledo, 78, was among the seven people killed in the shooting.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiAnna Sandoval brings her daughter, Ariela Antunez, 4, to deliver flowers on July 7, 2022, to a new memorial for the seven people killed in the Highland Park mass shooting. Antunez, of Highland Park, attended the parade with her father.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiPeople stop to mourn on July 7, 2022, at a memorial near the Central Avenue site where seven people were fatally shot by a gunman in a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
Chris Sweda / baiduhaiPeople embrace at a candle lit vigil at Central and St. Johns avenues in Highland Park on July 5, 2022, a day after a mass shooting in which seven people were killed and more than 30 injured at a Fourth of July parade.
Antonio Perez / baiduhaiMourners embrace and comfort each other as they leave following the memorial service for Jacquelyn "Jacki" Lovi Sundheim at North Shore Congregation Israel in Glencoe, on July 8, 2022. Sundheim was killed in the mass shooting at the Fourth of July Parade in Highland Park.
Terrence Antonio James / baiduhaiAt Iglesia Evangelica Bautista Emanuel in Waukegan, mourners wheel Nicolas Toledo Zaragoza's casket to a hearse after his funeral service on July 8, 2022. One of Toledo's sons, Angel Toledo, is at right at the front of the casket.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiSidewalk chalk reads "HP Strong" near Central Avenue, July 6, 2022, in Highland Park.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiPeople gather at 10:14 a.m. in Highland Park's Port Clinton Square for several minutes of silence on July 11, 2022, to mark exactly one week since a mass shooting killed seven at the city's Fourth of July parade.
Armando L. Sanchez / baiduhaiChristian Chan, 15, lights a candle next to a small memorial, July 5, 2022, in Highland Park.
Antonio Perez / baiduhaiA growing memorial for the victims of the Highland Park Independence Day parade mass shooting on July 8, 2022.
Antonio Perez / baiduhaiThe family of Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, who was killed in the mass shooting during Highland Park's Independence Day parade, mourn the loss of their family member at a growing memorial in Highland Park on July 8, 2022.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiA woman prays at the growing memorial for victims near the Central Avenue scene, July 6, 2022, two days after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
Armando L. Sanchez / baiduhaiChantal Maldonado hugs her mother, Maria Luisa Rodriguez, while attending a vigil on July 6, 2022, in Everts Park in Highwood after a gunman opened fire on the crowd at Highland Park's Fourth of July parade, killing seven people and injuring dozens more.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiOver 400 people gather at 10:14 a.m. in Port Clinton Square for several minutes of silence on July 11, 2022, to mark exactly one week since a mass shooting killed seven people during the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
Erin Hooley / baiduhaiBrady Kunitz, 7, and his sister, Layla Kunitz, 11, with their parents, Andrew and Lauren, write notes for Cooper Roberts on Aug. 28, 2022, at a public art memorial for the victims of the Independence Day mass shooting in Highland Park. Roberts was paralyzed in the shooting and is still recovering from his injuries.
Erin Hooley / baiduhaiNotes, flowers and other items are seen at the memorial for the victims of the Independence Day mass shooting on Aug. 28, 2022, in Highland Park.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiMourners arrive at the funeral for Irina McCarthy on July 12, 2022, at Weinstein & Piser Funeral Home in Wilmette. Irina McCarthy, along with her husband, Kevin, were killed in the mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
Antonio Perez / baiduhaiThe family of Nicolas Toledo-Zargoza, who was killed in the mass shooting at the Fourth of July Parade, mourn the loss of their family member at a growing memorial for the victims of the mass shooting, July 8, 2022.
Terrence Antonio James / baiduhaiAt Iglesia Evangelica Bautista Emanuel in Waukegan, mourners sing behind the casket bearing the remains of Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza on July 8, 2022.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiFrieda R. and Penny Laing pray together at a growing memorial near the Central Avenue scene on July 6, 2022, two days after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
John J. Kim / baiduhaiMourners hug before attending the wake for Eduardo Uvaldo at Memorial Chapel Funeral Home on July 9, 2022, in Waukegan. Uvaldo, 69, was fatally shot during the Highland Park Independence Day parade mass shooting.
Armando L. Sanchez / baiduhaiTom Levy, from left, and his wife, Jeannie Levy, tie orange pieces of cloth around an art installation titled "Enough" while attending a vigil on July 6, 2022, in Everts Park in Highwood.
Terrence Antonio James / baiduhaiMourners gather in Sunset Woods Park in Highland Park on July 7, 2022, for the victims of the mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiA note left for victims Irina and Kevin McCarthy and their surviving son Aiden at a memorial near the Central Avenue scene, July 6, 2022, in Highland Park.
Erin Hooley / baiduhaiArtist Jacqueline von Edelberg wraps a stone in yarn and thread on Aug. 28, 2022, at the public art installation created by von Edelberg and others as a memorial for the victims of the Independence Day mass shooting in Highland Park.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiWomen embrace as a crowd gathers at 10:14 a.m. in Highland Park's Port Clinton Square for moments of silence on July 11, 2022, to mark exactly one week since a mass shooting killed seven people during the city's Fourth of July parade.
Antonio Perez / baiduhaiThe family of Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, who was killed in the mass shooting during Highland Park's Independence Day parade, mourn the loss of their family member at a growing memorial for the victims at Central and St. Johns avenues in Highland Park on July 8, 2022.
Armando L. Sanchez / baiduhaiTwo officers stand outside Highland Park City Hall after a vigil on July 13, 2022, for the victims of the July Fourth mass shooting.
Chris Sweda / baiduhaiFrom left, Leah Kirschner, Sara Knizhnik, and Leah Hatcher console one another as victims of the Fourth of July mass shooting are honored and ideas on gun violence prevention measures bring together people at a community rally at Sunset Woods Park in Highland Park on July 9, 2022.
John J. Kim / baiduhaiSeven chairs with orange ribbons, symbolizing gun violence awareness, are placed on the lawn for Highland Park Independence Day parade victims at Am Shalom in Glencoe.
Armando L. Sanchez / baiduhaiMembers of the community attend a vigil outside Highland Park City Hall on July 13, 2022, for the victims of the Fourth of July mass shooting.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiThe names of the seven people who died as a result of the mass shooting at Highland Park's Fourth of July parade are named on a card at a memorial near the Central Avenue parade route, as seen on July 7, 2022.
Chris Sweda / baiduhaiA person lights candles at a memorial at Central and St. Johns avenues in Highland Park on July 5, 2022.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiPeople visit a growing memorial for victims, July 6, 2022, in Highland Park.
Armando L. Sanchez / baiduhaiPeople attend a vigil on July 6, 2022, in Everts Park in Highwood two days after seven people were killed and dozens were wounded in Highland Park in a mass shooting during a Fourth of July parade.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiPeople embrace at a memorial for the victims, July 6, 2022, after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
Armando L. Sanchez / baiduhaiOrange pieces of cloth are tied on an art installation titled "Enough" during a vigil in Everts Park in Highwood on July 6, 2022, two days after seven people were killed and dozens were wounded in a mass shooting during Highland Park's July parade.
Chris Sweda / baiduhaiHighland Park residents Kristen Skinner, left, hugs her daughter, Ava, 13, at a candle lit memorial set up at Central and St. Johns avenues in Highland Park on July 5, 2022, a day after a mass shooting.
John J. Kim / baiduhaiLt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, from left, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering depart after attending the wake for Eduardo Uvaldo at Memorial Chapel Funeral Home on July 9, 2022, in Waukegan.
Armando L. Sanchez / baiduhaiMiranda Pomerance, left, hugs Samantha Gomez, both 17, while attending a vigil in Everts Park on July 6, 2022, in Highwood.
Terrence Antonio James / baiduhaiYesenia Hernandez, right, a granddaughter of Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, is consoled outside Iglesia Evangelica Bautista Emanuel in Waukegan on July 8, 2022, during the visitation for Toledo-Zaragoza.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiPeople deliver flowers to a memorial near the Central Avenue parade route on July 7, 2022, three days after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
Armando L. Sanchez / baiduhaiPeople attend a vigil on July 6, 2022, in Everts Park in Highwood two days after seven people were killed and at least two dozen were wounded in Highland Park in a mass shooting during a Fourth of July parade.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiFlowers and chalk messages are seen on July 7, 2022, at a new memorial for the seven people who died after a gunman opened fire at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
Chris Sweda / baiduhaiA person holds a sign in support of gun control at Sunset Woods Park in Highland Park on July 9, 2022, at a community rally that honored victims of the Fourth of July mass shooting and also promoted ideas on gun violence prevention measures.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiA chalk drawing to the seven victims of the Highland Park shooting is seen at a memorial on July 10, 2022.
Armando L. Sanchez / baiduhaiHannah Peschier, 22, right, hugs her mother Christine Peschier, 54, after a service at Highland Park Presbyterian Church on July 5, 2022. Seven people were killed and at least two dozen were wounded in a mass shooting during a Fourth of July parade on Monday in Highland Park.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiMorgan, 4, and Maya Manna, 7, of Mt. Prospect leave flowers at a memorial for victims, July 6, 2022, in Highland Park.
Chris Sweda / baiduhaiVictims of the July Fourth mass shooting are honored at Sunset Woods Park in Highland Park on July 9, 2022, at a community rally that also promoted ideas on gun violence prevention measures.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiPeople visit one of the memorials along Central Avenue on July 10, 2022, six days after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
Terrence Antonio James / baiduhaiJoey Reingold and Julie Bloom hug near colorful ribbons and handwritten messages at a memorial ceremony in Sunset Woods Park in Highland Park on July 7, 2022.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiThe Sloanes, a string quartet of sisters from Orland Park, play music in Port Clinton Square as residents return and a new memorial grows on July 10, 2022, six days after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiA growing memorial to the victims of Highland Park's Fourth of July parade shooting on July 6, 2022.
John J. Kim / baiduhaiMourners raise candles at a vigil for victims of the Highland Park Independence Day parade mass shooting, at Am Shalom on July 7, 2022, in Glencoe.
Armando L. Sanchez / baiduhaiMourners attend a vigil for victims of the Highland Park Fourth of July parade shooting in Everts Park in Highwood on July 6, 2022.
Armando L. Sanchez / baiduhaiPeople hold hands during a service at Highland Park Presbyterian Church, July 5, 2022, the day after seven people were killed and at least two dozen were wounded in a mass shooting during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
Erin Hooley / baiduhaiPeople place flowers at a memorial near the scene of a mass shooting that killed at seven people and injured more than 30 others during a Fourth of July parade on July 7, 2022, in Highland Park.
Brian Cassella / baiduhaiA family prays at the growing memorial for victims, July 6, 2022, two days after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
Armando L. Sanchez / baiduhaiPeople stand outside the Donnellan Family Funeral Services facility on July 18, 2022, after attending a funeral for Kevin McCarthy, 37, who was killed in a mass shooting along with wife, Irina McCarthy, 35, in Highland Park during a Fourth of July parade.
Chris Sweda / baiduhaiHighland Park residents Hillary Heller, right, shares an embrace with her daughter Lucy and friend Shannon Rowe, center, at the corner of Green Bay Road and Central Avenue on July 5, 2022, a day after a mass shooting that left seven dead and more than 30 injured at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
Terrence Antonio James / baiduhaiPeople attend a memorial ceremony in Sunset Woods Park in Highland Park on July 7, 2022, for the victims of the mass shooting at the city's Fourth of July parade.
Erin Hooley / baiduhaiNotes are left for Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza at the public art installation in Highland Park created for the victims of the Independence Day mass shooting, pictured on Aug. 28, 2022.
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Stacey Portugal walks through the memorial for victims of the Highland Park Independence Day parade mass shooting with her son, Jacob Portugal, who lives in California, on Aug. 15, 2022.
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Mourning for the seven victims of Monday’s Highland Park mass shooting continued Saturday morning with the wake and funeral of 69-year-old Eduardo Uvaldo.
Uvaldo was one of seven people killed this week after Robert Crimo III allegedly opened fire at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, killing seven and leaving dozens injured.
Uvaldo’s funeral was held at The Memorial Chapel Funeral Home, 1521 Washington St., in his hometown of Waukegan, drawing approximately 500 guests, including Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, and Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering.
Media wasn’t allowed into the chapel.
According to Jesse Palacios, Uvaldo’s brother’s brother-in-law, the chapel was decorated with pictures of Uvaldo surrounded by his family.
“He just loved the little kids. He was at a lot of the family parties and he was just a very happy man, and his wife, too,” Palacios remarked outside in a parking lot after the visitation period. “They just always had the family around them.”
Uvaldo is survived by his wife Maria, four daughters, twelve grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
Uvaldo’s nephew Julio Bedaurre also remembered him as a “happy man” and emphasized how hard the past week had been on Uvaldo’s wife of fifty years and other surviving family members.
Palacios lamented the gun violence that led to Uvaldo’s death.
“It’s totally senseless, 100% senseless … There’s these laws in place where young kids can buy an AR-15, but yet they can’t buy a pack of cigarettes or buy liquor, but they can buy an AR-15 which is more powerful than [what] our soldiers in Vietnam used?” Palacious said. “It’s just incomprehensible.”
Uvaldo was born in 1952 in Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo Leon, Mexico and moved to the United States at the age of 15. He met his wife Maria while visiting Mexico and the pair returned together. Uvaldo was a well-known bowling champion in his hometown and is remembered as a “jovial” family man. He would have celebrated his 70th birthday Friday.
Father Xamie Reyes from St. Anastasia Catholic Church in Waukegan and Father Tim O’Malley from Most Blessed Trinity Parish in Waukegan spoke at the funeral.
After the funeral, Uvaldo’s casket was transported in a hearse followed by several vehicles carrying loved ones for interment at Ascension Catholic Cemetery in Libertyville.
The funerals of two other Highland Park victims — Jacquelyn “Jacki” Sundheim, 63, and Steve Straus, 88, — were held yesterday. Other victims include Katherine Goldstein, 64, Irina McCarthy, 35, and her husband Kevin McCarthy, 37, all of Highland Park.
A visitation also took place Friday evening for Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, 78, who was visiting family from Morelos, Mexico.