to his vehicle which was feet away in the parking lot. reporter: now, the theater remains closed as i mentioned. it will probably stay that way until monday when they tentatively hope they can hand the theater back over to its owners. they are not necessarily doing any investigating inside the building right now. what they are doing is combing through the hundreds of pieces of evidence that they have collected and if they have a question they want the ability to come back here and learn more about exactly what they found. i will tell you that the corporal we spoke to earlier today told me that the heroism of the one teacher who was actually shot during all the chaos but found a way to go over and sound that fire alarm played a major role in getting police here in time. he said it likely saved lives. no question about it. yesterday on our program i was speaking with one of their fellow teachers who said those two teachers who helped save so many lives acted just like they always do.
and visit our website to learn how you may be able to get every month free. isn t it beautiful when things just come together? build a beautiful website with squarespace. it is hard to believe that it has happened again. a mass shooting at an american movie theater. sandy and lonnie phillips lost their daughter jessica at the movie theater shooting in aurora colorado almost three years ago to the day of the louisiana rampage this week. jessica, you re looking at pictures of her right now, was an aspiring sports reporter. she had moved to denver to really get her dream job as a broadcaster. she was a talented journalist and her life ended much too
how do you combat that? that s what administration officials here have been trying to figure out and basically, telling the audience that there s only so much they can do. they have said the way isis reaches out to young disenfranchised people sometimes people who are rather disturbed and lonely they specifically target that kind of personality, win them over and then inspire them to go out and carry out attacks. the wording we kept getting here was it s not going to be as deadly as a standard al qaeda attack would probably be but you could see something like a chattanooga style attack small arms fire small explosive devices, proliferating across the united states. perhaps just as often as we are seeing mass shootings like a school shooting or theater shooting right now. wow. do you, peter, were you
but none of those seem to leave any clues as to why he ended up in lafayette, a city he had almost no connection to and why he would go to the lengths of shooting and killing people and wounding several others that he had no connection to at all. these were strangers when it came to john houser. we did today get a close glimpse of exactly what this crime scene looks like. the theater itself is still shut down right now. but we were able to go right up close to the theater and actually see the door where john houser attempted to escape from. we talked to a corporal with the lafayette police department and he tells me what houser found and he tried to get out that door. he exited out of this door right here the auditorium to trainwreck where we had approximately 30 people that bought tickets to that particular show. as he exited based off of witness accounts and information we received from all officers it is our belief that based off of the response by our officers he then reloaded