all teachers, just run, run, go. like run. me and my friend, ryan, ran to the foy so we could get shelter and that s when i called my mom. it s like instinlgt, you re scared, traumatized so you re running as fast as you can. an active shooter inside the school. if you would have heard what i thaerd heard this morning, the fear in my loved ones voice because of my son being that that classroom really scary. really, really scary. the 17-year-old is in custody and believed to be the shooter. the texas governor said authorities are speaking to two others in connection with the crime. on his facebook page last month, the accused gunman posted a photo of a t-shirt with the words born to kill. in addition to the use of a shotgun and .38 caliber revolver, explosives were found nearby that could have caused much more damage.
heard within the past few minutes in that news conference from the governor is that the two weapons, the 38 caliber revolver and that shotgun that the suspect used, police believe that he got those from his father and they re trying to determine if the father even knew that his son may have gotten hold of those weapons, nicolle. gabe gutierrez, thank you so much for starting us off. here with us for the hour, dave cohen, author columbine. michael balboni, mar a gay, member of the the new york times editorial board. let me start with you and ask you two questions about law enforcement and what they re going through at this hour. i thought it was remarkable for the governor to talk about the shooter s journal entries already. i thought that that kind of came as the second phase when you try to ascertain motive. did that surprise you at all? and is there anything we haven t heard that you ve heard from law enforcement officials about what went down today, the tragedy in santa fe?
building. the car pulled up and then yoko got out. and something in the back of my mind was going do it, do it, do it, do it, over and over, over and over. lennon got out, do it. i stepped off the curb, walked, turned, i take the gun and just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. five shots from mark david chapman s .38 caliber revolver. the doorman rushed lennon s killer. he shook the gun out of my hand and kicked the gun across the paverment. it took me out of my shock. it hit me like an airplane was hit you in the face, you know, what happened. i really shot this man. shot him four times. why would he shoot somebody in the sfwhak. braecause there s no risk th
outside john lennon s apartment building. the car pulled up and then yoko got out. and something in the back of my mind was going do it, do it, do it, do it, over and over, over and over. lennon got out, do it. i stepped off the curb, walked, turned, i take the gun and just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. five shots from mark david chapman s .38 caliber revolver. the doorman rushed lennon s killer. he shook the gun out of my hand and pushed me across the pavement. i really shot the man. it took me out of my shock.
police identified the gun as a nine-shot harrington & richardson .22 caliber revolver. from the serial number, police discovered the gun was purchased by g.d. wilson from a sears store in shreveport, louisiana. at the time that they interviewed the person who sold that gun, he told them that he believed the man was from out of town and his accent didn t sound like a louisiana accent. it sounded more southern than that. on the same day he bought the gun, a george d. wilson rented a room in the ymca just across the street from the sears store. we actually went into the room where this george wilson had checked in, and from the window of this room you could see the sears store. and it was just kind of for us, it was kind of overwhelming being in there and seeing that and trying to figure out what