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Highland Park Smoothie Bowl Shop Owners Thanked By Grateful Residents After Rushing July 4th Paradegoers To Safety

The Meltzers helped countless strangers hide for hours.

(CBS Chicago)

HIGHLAND PARK, IL — For hours on after the Highland Park July 4th parade massacre, some local business owners held frightened paradegoers in her smoothie shop – some of them children.

Matt and Lindsay Meltzer, owners of the Bright Bowls smoothie bowl shop at 777 Central Ave., took CBS 2's Charlie De Mar back to that day of horror – and explained how they kept everyone safe and at ease.

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