palestinian refugee camp. matt bradley caught in the firefight last night. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we begin our second hour of andrea mitchell reports with the gun violence epidemic in our country. according to the gun violence archive, there were 17 mass shootings in 15 states over the long july 4th weekend. leaving 18 people dead and more than 100 others injured. it brings the annual tally to 351 this year on track to surpass previous records. right now in el paso, texas, sentencing is underway in one of the deadliest mass shootings in u.s. history, the 2019 walmart shooting, where the shooter pleaded guilty to federal murder and hate crime charges for targeting hispanic migrants. family members of his 23 victims are making impact statements in court later today. the gunman is likely to be sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences. in philadelphia, a 40-year-old man has been charged with five counts of murder after allegedly opening fire
all those are being investigated by the new york nypd computer crimes. most of his postings and rants are on the instagram account. what we re seeing about this right now is anger against the government. there s one where he burns the flag and makes some statements. others that talk of anger at the police. he specifically mentions a s mil brown and eric garner. and other postings of self-despair and anger at himself and where his life is right now. right now, we have no gang affiliation at all, he has no tattoos to suggestion anything of it and no religious statements that we found on instagram at all. timeline of yesterday s events. at about 5:30 in the morning, he enters his girlfriend s apartment in owings mills, maryland. with a key he s not supposed to have. they have known each other for about a year and since broken up. she s confronted by his ex-girlfriend, and an argument ensues.
all are being investigated by the nypd computer crimes. most of his postings and rants are on the instagram account. what we re seeing from this right now is anger against the government. there is one where he is burning a flag and made some statements there is others with talks of anger at the police. he specifically mentioned michael brown and eric garner and other postings as well of self-dispair or anger over where his life is right now. right now we have no gang affiliation at all. he has no tattoos to suggest anything of it and no religious statements that we found on instagram at all. time line of yesterday s events. 5:30 he enters his girlfriend s apartment in maryland with a key he s not supposed to have. they have known each other for about a year and have since broken up. she is confronted by exgirlfriend and argument ensues. that exgirlfriend calls her
ex-girlfriend and an argument ensues. that ex-girlfriend calls her mother on her phone and she overhears part of the argument. the phone is then hung up president at about 5:50 calls come into 911 of shots fired at that location, a single shot fired. police arrive and the eck girlfriend identifies brinsley as the shooter. and he takes her phone as well. you see, that s the picture of the gentleman that we have that we were able to recover from georgia. at about 6:05 in the morning, he calls the mother on her phone, the girlfriend s mother on her phone and says he shot her by accident and that he hopes she lives. he then at 6:35, the baltimore county police department begins monitoring his movements and they have him tracked going northbound on i-95. during this time, he calls his ex-girlfriend s mother several times and goes through, makes