go emergency exits now. he walked up and told me he heard there was a shooter in our building and then we heard two more gunshots and he went down. people were yelling to close the doors, lock the doors. we heard a very loud gunshot close by and we looked up and saw bullet holes in the wall to the conference room we were in a foot down from the ceiling. he was far enough down the hall that we couldn t see his face but we saw the rifle and he raised and aimed at us. people were trying to get over the wall over the spaces. it was just crazy. some of the survivors. a dozen people were not so lucky. i want to bring in joe johns who has been at the press conferences and received the names of some of the fallen. these this is the first we have heard of the identities. absolutely.
we heard a very loud gunshot very close by and we looked up and we saw bullet holes in the wall to the conference that we were in about a foot down from the ceiling. he was far enough down the hall that we couldn t see his face but we could see him with a rifle and he raised and aimed at us. and he hit high on the wall. as we came outside, people were climbing the wall trying to get out over the wall to get out of the spaces. it was just crazy. alexis is the only gunman now, officials say. yesterday, there was word that there was maybe a second, a third possible person involved in the attack. that is no longer the case. officials say that aaron alexis was a lone gunman. this is what we know about him this morning. we know he had an ar-15. a semiautomatic rifle. he also had a different rifle and a glock, that is a handgun with him. it is believed the ar-15 was the main murder weapon used from the atrium above and also the weapon
bam. i just started running. everyone said this is no drill. go, go, go. emergency exits now. go, go g. people were yelling to close the doors, lock the doors. we heard a very loud gunshot very close by and we looked up and we saw bullet holes in the wall to the conference that we were in about a foot down from the ceiling. he was far enough down the hall that we couldn t see his face but we could see him with a rifle and he raised and hit high on the wall. as we came outside, people were climbing the wall trying to get out over the wall to get out of the spaces. it was just crazy. reporter: we will have much more on alexis and his history this morning. he had an ar-15, a rifle. he also had a semiautomatic clock and handgun with him and third weapon. it is believed the ar-15 was the main murder weapon. that was the same weapon used by adam lanza and james holmes.
computer subcontractor. these are new photos from fort worth. he worked at a local thai restaurant and worshipped at a buddhist monastery. he was studying the thai language. first the survivors, what they said and heard and did in the terrifying minutes this morning. i heard three shots. pow, pow, pow. 30 seconds later. i heard four more shots. when that happened everyone said this is no drill, go, go, go emergency exits now. he walked up and told me he heard there was a shooter in our building and then we heard two more gunshots and he went down. people were yelling to close the doors, lock the doors. we heard a very loud gunshot close by and we looked up and saw bullet holes in the wall to the conference room we were in a foot down from the ceiling.
8:00, and the conference had been going a short time when we heard the first sound that sounded unusual and we kind of looked at each other, what s that. a very few minutes after that, we heard the sound of what was definitely gunfire. people were yelling to close the doors, lock the doors. the conference room that i was in was behind some other doors so someone in my office, i don t know who, locked those outer doors and then we all barricaded ourselves either in the interior conference room or an interior offices and we were on the ground sheltering in place for several minutes. a short time after that, again, i wasn t looking at my watch, we heard a very loud gunshot, very close by. we looked up and we saw bullet holes in the wall to the conference room that we were in about a foot down from the ceiling. we heard sporadic gunfire a little bit after that. the 9:00 in the timeline sounds about right. didn t hear much gunfire i don t know when the last gunfire i heard but it was for