custody at lake forest, illinois, after a brief pursuit earlier. police also recovering a high powered rifle, who say believed to be the weapon he was at the shooting. that is the car that police say crimo was driving. you can see it here on this live picture. this all started approximately, at 10:14 am, central time. the shooter opened fire on the town separate from a rooftop, along that route. and again, police say six people have been killed, and health officials reported that at least two dozen, if not three dozen, were hurt. 25, with gunshot wounds, in that total. let s go straight to shaquille brewster, and as an msnbc correspondent there on the ground for us. and shaq, just the breaking news within the last 15 minutes that they have apprehended that person of interest. what else are we hearing? well, we are likely not gonna have any more updates from local law enforcement until tomorrow. but you are just in the past couple of minutes there, we had that major update,
live picture. this all started approximately at 10:14 am, central time. the shooter opened fire on the towns parade from a rooftop, along that route. and again, police say six people have been killed, and health officials report that at least two dozen, if not three dozen, were hurt. 25 with gunshot wounds in that total. let s go straight to shaquille brewster and as an msnbc correspondent there on the ground for us. and shaq, just the breaking news within the last 15 minutes that they have apprehended that person of interest. what else are we hearing? well, we are likely not gonna have any more updates from local law enforcement until tomorrow. but you heard this in the past couple of minutes there. we had that major update that person of interest was identified and, identified and captured. he is now in custody. just so you get a sense of where lake forest is. it s a town about 15 minutes from where i m standing right now. i m at the crime scene, about a block away from w
forms. it was this fetishization of mass death that you saw constantly from his posts and music videos. it s tough to tell, ben, but do you get a sense of what was driving this person of interest. what was driving crimo to violence? what were the reasons why? well, this is very difficult to say, because you don t wanna egg it on. but there is a community of people on the internet who are obsessed with mass death. and people who fetishes mass killers, this has been happening since basically columbine, but has accelerated in the age of social media and the internet. and you see a lot, in places like that extremist forums where they have developed entire personalities based around the concept of killing people. they view it as like a scoreboard, the amount of deaths you can accrue in a mass killing. they talk about that afterwards as well. some of these forums talk about, they compare mass killers to
obsessed with mask that. and people who fetishes mass killers, this has been happening since basically columbine, but has accelerated in the age of social media and the internet. and you see a lot, in places like that, extremist forums where they have developed entire personalities based around the concept of killing people. they view it as like a scoreboard, the amount of deaths you can accrue in a mass killing. they talk about that afterwards as well. some of these forums talk about, they compare mass colors to previous mass colors, and say, he didn t do as well as this guy, something like that. that s part of the community that he was appealing to in these spaces. and you could see a lot, not just in his music videos, but in his posts across the internet. he was in other message boards, on the internet, that were literally just host of people being beheaded, or people being killed. he was a power user on those forums. it s basically a cult of death