called 911. my husband s been shot. somebody shot your husband? i think so. where are you at? within minutes fayetteville police and paramedics arrived and they found michelle cradling her husband in a pool of blood, but it was too late. marty fear was dead. he was just 31. because marty was an air force captain, military investigators were on the scene shortly after police. both teams were eager to speak with the only known witness, michelle atmosphere. she said she heard what sounded to her like three bangs of a car backfiring. and did she tell you what she did at that point? she then opened the door and noet noticed that her husband was
prank, but then i saw one of the people in front of me sort ofhe open his trunk. and then got with his bag, and started actually running towards the people that were mowed down. it looked like he was either a paramedic or a doctor or something. someone who was trained, but not in the uniform.k i think a lot of people thought this was some sort of a prank. people were sort of just walking and looking at the wounded people, no one sort of realized what had happened. tucker: that s always the case. people always think it s a car backfiring or fireworks, or a prank. i would probably think the same. thank you very much for joining us tonight. thanks.an i wish it was under different circumstances. tucker: i do, too. five hours after this horrible crime, what do we know about the suspect in the hospital tonight? rick leventhal is on the ground
prank, but then i saw one of the people in front of me sort of open his trunk. started actually running towards the people that were mowed down. either a paramedic or a doctor or something. who was trained, but not in the uniform. i think a lot of people thought this was some sort of a prank. people were sort of just walking and looking at the wounded people, no one sort of realized what had happened. tucker: that s always the case, people always think it s a car backfiring or fireworks, or a prank. i would probably think the same. thank you very much for joining us tonight. thanks. i wish it was under different circumstances. tucker: i do, too. five hours after this horrible crime, what do we know about the suspect in the hospital tonight?
i ran, yeah. and i don t know if i caught him reloading a magazine or what, but, and he might have been shooting at me. it all happened so fast. i don t know. but i just dove into the dugout, into the congressman s arms and you know how long it took you to run across? probably the fastest i could have ever run with a bullet wound in my leg. and congressman, where were you when the shots began? well, when they began, i was hitting steve scalise ground balls by the batting cage, and i hit him a ball and all of a sudden we heard this pop and we thought it might have been a car backfiring and then there was another pop, pop, pop, and everybody yelled, he s got a gun, get for shelter. so, i don t know why i decided to do it, but i went to the first base dugout, which is literally a dugout, six foot deep, and i dove in it head first. like diving in a swimming pool with no water. when i got there, i found myself face to face with congressman brooks and senator flake. we were right
i hit him a ball and we heard this pop and thought it might be a car backfiring and then another pop pop pop. everybody yelled, he s got a gun, get for shelter. i don t know why i decided to do it or whatever, i went to the first base dugout, which is literally a dugout 6 feet deep, i dove in it headfirst like diving in a swimming pool with no water. when i got there i found myself face-to-face with congressman brooks and senator flake, we were right there together and out of nowhere comes zach from his sprint. did you see him running? no, i did not. all of a sudden there he was and jumped in there and said, i m hit. it just so happened he jumped in my arms and i put my arms around him and he put his arms around me. mo brooks took his belt off, gave to it flake and flake put a tourniquet on his leg to stop the bleeding. we all just stayed down. the thing about this, we had probably 15 of our colleagues in