alyssa was 6 by this time, was the only person who remembered seeing anything unusual and she told the detective right away. well, i was fast asleep. she saw a shadow in her doorway looking at her and then the shadow left. she went back to sleep and then melissa came in and grabbed her and was talking to 911. reporter: the detective discovered the bullet that killed ben was a number eight birdshot, same ammunition they discovered in craig s room. and so the question to craig and sure enough, when they tested him for gunshot residue or blood castoff, he was clean. could not have fired that gun. and so back to melissa.
sheriff. i really need to know. i honestly don t know. alyssa was 6 by this time, was the only bhoewho remembered seeing anything unusual. she saw a shadow in her doorway looking at her and then the shadow left. she went back to sleep and then melissa came in and grabbed her and was talking to 911. the detective discovered the bullet that killed ben was a number 8 birdshot, the same ammunition discovered in craig s room. so the question for craig i apologize, but i have to, did you kill craig? no, i di i
first, in crisis incidence, inaccurate information is always a problem that we have to sift through. so the chief of clear there. he said we re going to be careful. anything we put out is going to be very accurate. we don t want to put out anything erroneous. we heard reports maybe fingerprints were altered. earlier reports also said potential ieds. he corrected that saying it was smoke cannons. exactly. i think sometimes for civilians they might think a smoke canister is an ied. it causes fire and smoke. what those things are used for from a military perspective, you use them to signal and to obscure. now, using them in this kind of situation, did he use that as a distraction? did he use it as something that was going to cause fear and pan sni ic? he used a shotgun. the chief didn t say whether it was buck shot or bird shot or a
and might think it s an ied. it could be used for that, it causes fire and obviously smoke. what those things are used for from a military perspective, you use them to signal and to obscure. now, using them in this kind of situation, did he use that as a distraction? did he use it as something that was going to cause fear and pan ic? that s quite possible. but the other thing that struck me was the selection of his weapon. it was a shotgun. the chief didn t say whether it was buck shot or bird shot or a slug. because a slug round is a dangerous round. they re less accurate because it s a scatter gun type device. obviously a lot of people have shotguns for home defense. so probably didn t raise any suspicions that he purchased this or had this weapon available. but not the kind of weapon we ve seen generally speaking in these types of incidence. it is very early in this investigation. the motive, which is obviously very important in every situation but in this as well, not yet determi
course, with the sketchy information we have out here right now we don t know how many rounds he had with him and it s not 100% confirmed yet that it was a shotgun. right. of course. art, what kind of ammunition does a shotgun take? are there probably individuals out there who imagine it s bullet by bullet and it is not. it s not. you can have bird shot which are very tiny pellets. standard kind of round that law enforcement uses is double ought buck and fairly large pellets and also a slug round which is very deadly that a lot of people use in deer hunting and it s basically like an ounce of lead coming out of that barrel so, you know, you can also use a combination of those different rounds but law enforcement generally uses the gauge rounds, the 12-gauge shotgun rounds and it s usually double ougt buck. i want to bring back