At photographs, red messages, trying to find answers and seeking justice. He didnt deserve this. He was a good boy. He was a good boy. He was my baby. I just want justice done. We want the people to be caught. I want them to find the people that did this. They dont deserve to be out free. Such a coward. They are cowards. Reporter life changed monday afternoon just a block from the school when a car rolled up to the teen. Words were exchanged and a passenger got out and opened fire. The wounded 17yearold jumped a fence onto the campus and collapsed. A janitor and others called for help. The teen died later at the hospital leaving his friends in shock and also paying tribute on social media. His post on instagram and snap chat about how he was a good person which he was. Today we are wearing gray sweaters for him because thats all he would wear. Reporter with a heavy Police Presence staff at Olympic Continuation High School wrote messages on ribbons on closer look just simple words, you
Investigators are serging a home of a gunman, and questioning his wife. As we learn he was in the process of being diagnosed with post Traumatic Stress disorder. The soldier saw psychiatrists last month, but didnt show signs of being a threat to anyone. Now the gunman killed three people before taking his own life. 16 oh people were also wounded. Injuriesthose injuries are in Critical Condition, but they are expected to survive. Heidi joe castro joins us now, heidi, what do we expect to hear from authorities at todays news conference. This conference should take off any moment. Until that is confirmed the command is only alleged. He is the alleged shooter, what we do know is more of his background. He is a 34yearold Army Specialist who join add Puerto Rican National guard in 1999. He is part of an infinry unit, and also a member of the band. According to the u. S. Army secretary, lopez joined the army in 2008. Now according to fort hood command, lopez did not see combat overseas and he
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on lopez s mental state. he was troubled and on medication and had sewn a psychiatrist and according to friends in puerto rico dopely affected by the death of his mother last november and the army was slow to give him time off to takened her funeral. they are looking into the claims and digging deeper in the shooter s history. we have strong evidence that he had a medical history that indicates unstable conditions and gone through all of the records to insure that that is correct. we believe that to be a fundmental line. we have learned that lopez bought the smith & wesson handgun at the same store in i can lean where nadal hasan bought his powerful handgun. lopez bought his gun on march 1st. and posted chilling facebook message and including wordsthin take me. we hear tales was heroism. fergus onwas holding a dorclosed that would not lock and behind the dorwas many more soldiers and fergus onheld it closed so lopez couldn t get through the door but he lost his life in th
banderas in for jenna lee. jon: welcome, julie. the report is that ivan lopez argued with other soldiers before going on that killing spree, killing three people and injuring 16, some seriously. some say angry words might have set him off. they re primarily focusing on the soldier s mental hood. rick leventhal is live in fort hood. what is the latest there, rick? reporter: jon, it seems clear specialist lopez was deeply troubled. he sought psychiatric help and was on medication. the question is, were warning signs missed? as you mentioned there is pretty compelling evidence according to the army there was some sort of a verbal altercation between lopez and one or more soldiers just before the shooting started. the focus of the army has been and is now on lopez s mental health, whether or not the mental health was motive for this shooting. we heard from friends in puerto rico, that lopez was deeply troubled by the death of his mother in november and angry with the army, that