Is. These are images. This is the latest image that the Atlanta Police has released of the suspected shooter. Heres more. This appears to be him holding a gun. They warned the public, he is Armed And Dangerous. Joining me right now is catie beck, who is live for us in atlanta. Its good to have you here. Im sorry, we dont yet have catie beck. Lets go back to our panel. Terrorism analyst, and retired atf agent in charge, jim kavanaugh. National security analyst and special agent clint watts, and Nbc News National Security analyst frank figliuzzi, and frank worked with the fbi in atlanta. Im going to begin with you again, and lets talk about this carjacking that the police are looking at. It happened in the blocks surrounding this Medical Center in midtown manhattan. The carjacking happened on 14th street and william street. It was not long after the shooting. The vehicle has since been recovered. But its unclear to police at this moment, at least from what they are telling us, whether co
Texas finally in custody after being discovered hiding in a closet under a pile of laundry, and hes not the only one whos been arrested. More on that coming up. But we begin with those explosive allegations from the kremlin claiming ukraine attempted to assassinate Vladimir Putin in an overnight drone attack. Video released on social media and russian state tv purports to show the roof of the kremlin on fire as well as flying objects shot down over moscow. In a statement today, russia placed the blame squarely on kyiv saying, quote, we regard these actions as a planned Terrorist Attack and an attempt on the president. The russian side reserves the right to take retall toir measures where and where it sees fit. Volodymyr zelenskyy addressed the allegation at a Press Conference about an hour ago. Listen. We dont attack putin or moscow. We fight on our territory. We are defending our villages and cities. Nbc news chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel is following the story from london
In custody at this moment. I know this area very well, been number of years in atlanta, right across the highway from our atlanta bureau. So we have our correspondents on the scene there to tell us more as soon as they get it. But tragic way to start out wednesday. Sandra sometimes you get a whole lot of details up front and then quiet a bit, see what more we hear from the Atlanta Police department. Anyone in the area is asked to secure their buildings, shelterinplace, anyone not in that area, please stay away they are telling fox. They are going to continue to communicate through social media and we will update as soon as we get new information. John typically fairly safe area of atlanta, a number of years ago in a parking lot north of there, north of 14th street, this was a shooting, one person was killed, somebody was trying to steal a car. That was a number of years ago but dont normally hear about shootings in this area. Its a medical Office Building as we know it, connected with
stuff that might be more present here. so all of that s going on behind the scenes, but i m always intrigued by the decision making to shelter in place, release people and how confident you can be when you re releasing citizens into a safe area. tough decisions. for anybody just joining us, the top of the hour, we are following report of an active shooter in the midtown atlanta area. we have one person who has died at the scene. four people injured and taken to the hospital. the suspect still on the run. let s go ahead and listen to our local affiliate there, wxia. they are conducting an interview right now with sate senator josh mclauren who was having lunch in the area at the time. before i took this call, i was downstairs, there was an atlanta police officer who came through and reminded everyone we re still on lockdown. i m glad some people were able to be evacuated. we have seen cars leave the area. confusion, it s uncertainty, it s fear, and we re going to wait and
patterson is a suspect. the man hunt underway right now. let s begin on the ground in atlanta with charles watson. hi, charles. good afternoon, gillian. at this point in this investigation, police are having folks here in the midtown area shelter in place. you can see here behind me there s heavy police presence out here. police are starting to condense this crime scene some and move it back closer to the building where the shooting is presumed to have happened. you mentioned just a few moments ago, police released the identity of a suspect, the man that police believe is behind the shooting that happened here in midtown this morning. he s identified as deon patterson. he is a 24-year-old man and police are asking folks to be on the lookout for patterson. urging the public not to approach him and call 911 instead because he is considered armed and dangerous. now, we just got an update from police a few moments ago. they said they were aware of a carjacking in the vicinity o