Maryland. erin, what more have we learned about what happened leading up to the shooting? fred, investigators have pieced together how the shooter got to the mall and what he did when he got here but they still haven t figured out why. the gunman now identified in saturday s terrible shooting at the mall in maryland. darion marcus aguilar is the shooter. police still aren t talking about a possible motive, although they say the 19-year-old aguilar lived in the same college park, maryland neighborhood as one of the victims, 21-year-old benlolo. we haven t been able to verify a relationship at this point between him and either of our victims. we can t establish there is one, we can t establish there is not one. that is an open question. reporter: surveillance videos, police say, revealed aguilar arrived by taxi at this upper level mall entrance 10:15
It took us a while to identify him. as you know, we were concerned about when the initial officers came upon him seeing a lot of ammunition on him. we were concerned about whether he had booby-trapped himself. although his body was not booby-trapped, those concerned certainly were borne out and i ll talk about that in a minute. but it took us a while to identify him. we were able to use some technology, some robots from other agencies, we were able to get his identification and then we had to verify that, and then obviously wanted to make notification to his family. so darion marcus aguilar is the shooter. we have not been able to identify any type of relationship at this point between him and either of our victims. we can t establish that there is one, we have not been able to establish that there is not one. we know that is an important piece of information our community is interested in. but we just don t know that. we are working to find that out
Himself on saturday at a crowded mall in columbia, maryland. we are awaiting more details about this picture and about the investigation into why mr. aguilar did what he did. about 10:15 yesterday, he said police say he went to the mall and then carried out this attack. our erin mcpike is live on the ground there in columbia, maryland. erin, what more can you tell us? reporter: well, miguel, you may see it there. the police chief said at a press conference within the last half hour that they were releasing aguilar s official driver s license photo. they also said that he had no criminal record. but when they searched his house last night, they did find a journal in which he expressed general unhappiness for his life.
County executive has pointed out. but it is not just the howard county police department. we ve had and continue to have a tremendous amount of assistance from variety of agencies local, state, federal. as the executive pointed out, this is what we train for and that training has paid off in many, many ways with this incident. since the last time we spoke we have been very, very busy, very, very busy overnight accomplishing a number of things. let me run those by you. first of all, i m going to identify our shooter as darion marcus aguilar. he s 19 years old and he lives at 4704 hollywood road in college park.
We just don t know that. we re working to find that out now. reporter: police also say that aguilar purchased that shotgun about a month ago in nearby montgomery county. but part of the mystery is that he was also carrying a backpack that had two homemade explosive devices. they were never detonated. and police were able to disable them. but he also had a lot of ammunition on him. and so police aren t yet sure if this was a targeted event or if it could have been a bigger mass shooting, miguel. erin mcpike in columbia, maryland, thank you very much. we continue to learn more information of the victims in the maryland mall shootings. coming up next hour, a cnn exclusive interview with a close friend of one of the victims, 21-year-old brianna benlolo. question number three, what will happen to amanda knox if she s found guilty again? it s the case that seems to have no end. knox and her former italian boyfriend are waiting for a third verdict from an italian