loughner case. loughner, as you well know, is the suspect in that terrible shooting in tucson. and as you well know, killed in that attack was a federal judge, john roll. he was shot in the back, and he died at the scene. what this means is they ll have to find a judge from outside the state of arizona to hear jared loughner s case. of course, we ll keep you posted when they name that judge. the judge who will eventually hear the case against jared loughner. experts say loughner s odd behavior clearly suggests mental illness. so how were so many warning signals missed? cnn s drew griffin investigates. fourth year. reporter: on the very first day of class math teacher ben mcgahee knew there was something wrong with the student in classroom 209. a student named jared loughner, who would first become a disturbance. sudden outbursts, challenging his teaching. then going silent and ignoring everyone while listening to his ipod. the behavior the professor thought was threatening.
great students and it always does. even when i come back to class this semester, i look forward to teaching a great class. so definitely the college, you know, is not responsible at all for this. it certainly is a tragedy that this happened and that there were some warning signs, it seems, from people who had day-to-day contact with him, like you. ben mcgahee, thank you so much for joining us this morning. i appreciate it. thank you. you re welcome. when we come back, we ll talk to a hero in the crowd. 20-year-old daniel hernandez rushed into the danger zone rushing to gabrielle giffords side and may have very well saved her life. client comes in and they have a box. and inside that box is their financial life. people wake up and realize i better start doing something. we open up that box. we organize it. and we make decisions. we really are here to help you. they look back and think, wow. i never thought i could do this.
anybody to follow up on jared. i might have heard one of the students. i don t know i don t recall when her name was. but he did show up to her workplace and caused a little havoc there. but other than that, i did not hear about his whereabouts or what he was planning to do as far as the shooting goes that happened on saturday. bill: ben, my best to you and everybody out there in tucson. thank you for your time. we ve already reached out to the student, whose e-mails i ve quoted here, and hopefully she ll be with us tomorrow. thank you. at four minutes before the hour. ben mcgahee. thank you very much, bill, my pleasure. martha: we are getting ready for the moment of silence that is about to take place, as we hear more incredible stories from the heroes in the tucson, arizona story. we will be right back with more. and plumsmart light.
to your teaching and the students or did you feel in any way that this guy was becoming a threat? he was a threat. he actually wrote something on the quiz that said mayhem fest and wrote it in big, bold capital letters. mayhem? mayhem fest. and then put three exclamation points, drew random scribblings, like pictures. violent pictures? not really. just random stuff. but the mayhem fest got me concerned. concerned enough to get the school to actually kick loughner out of the class. he had to be physically removed by a campus police officer and dean. that led to a meeting in which loughner was excluded from the campus until and unless he got psychiatric evaluation. the teachers and students were scared of the guy. ben mcgahee said when the name jared loughner came up yesterday, not surprised at all.
scared of the guy. ben mcgahee said when the name jared loughner came up yesterday, not surprised at all. that s chilling. was there any indication that the teacher sought any mental health treatment. he s a math instructor. he knows that jared loughner was told you couldn t get back to campus unit will you got mental health and he obviously didn t return to class. there were signs perhaps something could have been done. i asked him, what more could the school have done? he wished the school had intervened earlier to get him out of class. there was no violence in the school. just odd behavior, threatening to the other students but not overtly. right. so it s one of those situations. what are you going to do? we ll find out more details perhaps from the school about what they did and whether a psychiatric evaluation did take place. pretty upsetting to know that