and then you go into the foyer area, there was a lot of blood on the walls, on the door, on the floor. so this is suggesting a moving struggle. definitely. it looks like the homeowner came home and surprised a burglar in her house, and a struggle ensued where she was beaten. reporter: the bloody path led edmunds further into the house, to a bloody hand print on the door out to the parsons garage. and you can tell there was there was more beating going on in the garage. there was blood spatter on the walls. so she was already bleeding before she got into the garage. reporter: and that s where this apparent struggle had ended. the deputies found 41-year old kay parsons lying there on the floor. had you ever seen a scene like that? nothing nothing that drastic, no. she was beaten so severely in her head, it was pretty bad. reporter: but amazingly, kay was alive. emts hurried her to the hospital, her life hanging by a thread. she still had a heartbeat. but she was
protect individuals going to these concerts and sporting events when you don t have to have a ticket, these people who are responsible don t have a ticket to get in. the terrorists are looking to kill as many people as they can and because there is good counterintelligence it is hard for them to pull things off. what do they do? go for the easy target, the big arena filled with people on monday night, 10:30 in the evening where you could access that foyer area and get off the stone way subway and be in the midst of thousands of people. that is how it started last night. they move the security line backwards and parents meeting of their kids on the perimeter. sadly, rarely are we ahead of the game, rarely do we get announcements if you re leaving from europe don t bring a laptop. that is what we heard together.
targets for any terrorist. and we re talking also about somebody who detonated explosives in a foyer area where people were streaming out for maximum damage, in order to cause maximum carnage as well. and this makes it all the more cowardly and disgusting. that s right. as you heard in that press conference, authorities are rapidly trying piece together the identity of that individual who carried that i.e.d. into the foyer and detonated it amongst children out for a couldn t certain to see one of their pop idols sing. they say it is a fast moving investigation. hopefully they will come forward with identity details soon. no doubt they re looking at whether or not this person was part of a broader plot. if there are other individuals involved as well. as yet, they have not identified
breaking details. reporter: we are in a city that is in lockdown. the central part of it anyway. i will let my camera man show you police presence behind him. this canopy building, the victoria train station and connected to the victoria train station is manchester arena and the person who seems to be the suicide bomber did his bad work in the foyer area, near the box office area setting off a bomb perhaps with screws and nuts and bolts attached, the ugliest kind of suicide bomb. that left 22 people killed, 59 injured and a lot of young people attending this ariana grande concert, 25,000 seats,
we had witnesses coming out. some of them were injured. they all felt like they heard something. nobody saw anything. there was no smoke seen inside the arena. and then the reports started coming in that the explosion was inside the foyer area, just outside in the hallway. as people were exiting. if you had eyewitness is saying that inside that foyer area, they smelled smoke. a gassy smell. then you have the arena officials coming out and saying that this was in fact outside the arena altogether, and the box office area that s between victoria station and manchester arena. for those who don t know the area, it s one building. it goes up into the arena. 21,000 people, one of the biggest arenas in the u.k. ariana grande among young people she is extraordinary popular. this was packed, according to all accounts. with anywhere from 6-year-olds