breaking down, asking, what was his brother s life worth? we have learned prosecutors and that former officer, derek chauvin, were closing in on a deal on state murder and federal civil rights charges until the day before his arrest. chauvin now faces up to 40 years behind bars if convicted on all charges. and tonight, as we come on the air, an urgent hunt now for a man who opened fire on a police station. a deputy wounded, shot in the face. another person found shot dead nearby. and we have it all covered for you. we re going to begin with abc s alex perez in minneapolis again tonight. reporter: tonight, the stunning revelation. as prosecutors mulled charges against fired minneapolis police officer derek chauvin, he was angling for a deal to plead guilty on federal civil rights charges and to murdering george floyd. as prosecutors were walking up to the podium on may 28th, the deal had just fallen apart. we thought we would have another development that i could tell you about. unf
good on dan crenshaw. let us know. i think it s different to also invoke the declaration or the constitution or the religion being part of our founding. totally but i would invoke my faith on things like pro-life issues. i think that s totally acceptable. but when you misconstrue it, that s a problem. we re going to talk to headlines now for you. a man accused of shooting a texas state trooper will face capital state murder charges. the new charges coming five months after trooper sanchez was shot in the head while investigating a car crash. sanchez died saturday after undergoing surgery. he leaves behind a wife and three kids. the son of a former nfl lineman accused of murdering his parents is arrested in mexico. dillon bennett in fbi custody after his parents were found dead in their minnesota home last week. investigators tracking him down after finding out he bought a plane ticket in ohio to mexico.
josh, first to you. you ve just reported the fbi is now opening a domestic terror investigation. that is going o run alongside the texas investigation. what does this mean? i spoke to a source just a short time ago that the fbi has indeed opened a domestic terrorism investigation. as you mentioned, that will be worked alongside the state investigation. now, right now the state has the lead. it appears as though that will remain the case for the time being. obviously, here on state murder charges we heard from the governor earlier and other officials talking about how they re going to handle the case. in the background you have the fbi with this concurrent case looking into the ideology. an official i spoke with saying that s really going to be their focus, is digging into this motivation. was there someone who was motivated intending to cause a hate crime here, possibly a domestic terrorism incident? getting to that motivation is going to be key for law enforcement because that then
and staff working their tails off to keep americans safe from the next terrorist attack, gang violence, child predators, spies from russia, china, north korea, and iran. the fbi that i see is tens of thousands of brave men and women who are working as hard as they can to keep people that they will never know safe from harm. white house press secretary sarah sanders said today there is no discrepancy between wray s praise and the president s opinion of the fbi. sanders said the president takes issue with the quote, political leaders in the fbi. and we now know the outcome to a police shooting that just rocked this nation after video showed walter scott, an unarmed black man getting shot as he was running away from a white cop. a federal judge just sentenced former police officer michael slager to 20 years in prison. he pled guilty to a federal civil rights violation after his state murder trial ended in a mistrial. here s the video from the 2015
dylann roof, saying he purposefully selected the historic emanuel ame church to make his attack more notorious. roof is already facing state murder charges. so far, no decision on seeking the death penalty. the head of the fbi says isis efforts to recruit americans here at home is now a greater threat to the u.s. than an attack by al qaeda. james comey says isis has seen success in recent months after a social media campaign. it urged americans who could not travel to the middle east to wage a jihad to kill where you are. well investigators are still trying to figure out if chattanooga shooter mohammad youssuf abdulazeez had been radicalized by isis. they re releasing new details about the attack, which killed six military members. here s abc s brian ross. [ shots ] reporter: the attack was described as three to five minutes of both terror and of heroism. after first shooting up the recruitment center seven miles away mohammad abdulazeez raced to a second target the naval