(Jewish Group) How the Highland Park shooter destroyed a Russian Jewish family's American dream

[Behind the Aegis]

Irina McCarthy was living the American dream.

Born in Moscow, she immigrated to the Chicago area at age 2 with her parents, Michael and Nina Levberg, who — like many so many other Soviet-era emigres — sought a better life in the U.S.

Then Irina Levberg, she graduated from DePaul University, got a job in digital marketing and married Kevin McCarthy. The couple lived in the bucolic suburb of Highland Park, two years ago welcomed Aiden, and were planning on having a second child, Michael Levberg told the Chicago Sun-Times.

They brought Aiden to Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade. And in a blaze of gunfire, Irina, 35, was killed during the annual celebration, as was her husband.

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