of an audience pulled out his pistol and opened fire on the ambassador. then he began to shout first in arabic and then tirkish. he said allahu akbar he s a jihadi who has taken allegiance to muhammed and then in tirkish said don t forget aleppo and syria. you will not taste security if our brothers and sisters don t have it. everyone who participated in the all those will pay heavily who helped create the cruelty in syria. so the gunman clearly trying to link this shooting to russia s campaign in syria and the fall of aleppo which just happened a few days ago. there are numerous reports in this country that the gunman was
larger network, saying he s trying to destabilize the country. there s another aspect of this, this guy was a turkish police officer, a riot police officer, who s been watching the images coming out of aleppo, as the rest of the world has, and has been totally self-radicalized or impassioned by what he s seen and wanted to take action and express himself in this very heinous way, because he s been watching the politics of the country to his dissatisfaction. there are going to be a lot of questions whether he was acting alone, whether he was connected, but it seems at this stage of the investigation, early on, no clear indication that this is an individual who was perhaps associated with a larger terrorist network that we know of from inside of syria, according to turkish officials. all right. two big developments today. ayman mohyeldin, thanks for your reporting. appreciate it. we will be right back. crest complete presents sugar shield
jihadist who s carrying this out. as for motivation, he went onto describe that this was pay back for russia s involvement, he says don t forget aleppo and syria. you will not taste security if our region is not safe and he started shouting to some of the people in the room. journalists and others gathered for this event telling them to stand back and pointing his weapon at them. then he went onto say, death can only take me out of here. after that he left the exhibit hall himself and smashed some paintings and went on some photograph and went up to the second floor and engaged in about a 15 minute gun battle with turkish police who then killed him. richard, turkey, had a rough year, they had attacks from kurdish separatists and attack at the airport which isis claimed responsibility for and an attempted presidential coo.
officer, was caught on video opening fire and shouting god is greatest, don t forget aleppo, don t forget syria. russia is calling this a terror attack. president elect donald trump is blaming the killing on a radical islamic terrorist. trump issuing that statement just minutes after the electoral college sealed his election victory. texas put him over that 270 electoral threshold that he needed to make this official. i want to go now to sarah murray, who is with donald trump in florida. the president-elect has had a lot to say here in the past few minutes. reporter: that s right, brianna. even though he remains cloistered here, his team and donald trump are putting out a nury of statements, acknowledging the terror attack. he has tied it to islamic terrorism and he took to twitter
statement saying the united states condemns to what appears to have been a terrorist attack on a christmas market in germany. russia s ambassador was assassinated at an art show and he was giving a speech at the exhibit when a man in the crowd opened fire. police shot and killed the gunman who was shouting god is great. don t forget aleppo and sir yachlt it was a provocation aimed at derailing the peace process in syria. the secretary condemned the attack and hemtp daily after this quick break. s for christmas only a hippopotamus will do at the united states postal service, we deliver more online purchases to homes than anyone else in the country. and more hippopotamuses, too.