say? i would encourage them to look at my heart because when i became a senator almost ten years ago, i recognized that there was a lot of things i didn t know. and when i first met a mom and a dad who lost their daughter to a stray gun bullet and met all her classmates, i knew immediately there was no way i was not going to do something, so i immediately sat down and this was almost ten years ago, with commissioner kelly and a lot of moms who had lost their children and said, what needs to be done? and the thing they wanted me to work on was get rid of gun trafficking because 90% of the crimes used in new york state and new york city come from out of state and nearly all of them are illegal and that s why i wrote a gun trafficking bill and it s why i ve been fighting ever since to end trafficking, have universal background checks, make sure we get rid of assault weapons and large magazine clips and making sure people on the terror watch list can t buy weapons, common sense stuff, bu
no questions. okay. reporter: dear looked like he was struggling to stay awake, slowly blinking his eyes as the judge advised him of his rights. friday s mass shooting and six-hour standoff left three people dead. 44-year-old police officer garrett swasey, 29-year-old iraq war veteran ke arre stewart and jennifer markovsky, 35-year-old mother of two. nine others were wounded, survivors hid in offices as gunshots rang throughout the building. we actually had a gun bullet go through the wall, came through one and went through the other. you could see the gunpowder and smell, smell it. it was just frightening at that point. reporter: dear s appearance comes as investigators try to determine a motive behind the planned parenthood attack. law enforcement source tells cnn dear mentioned something about, quote, baby parts, and expressed antiabortion views. the comments come just months after a series of videos produce
was struggling to stay awake, slowly blinking his eyes as the judge advised him of his rights. friday s mass shooting and six-hour standoff left three people dead. 44-year-old police officer garrett swasey, 29-year-old iraq war veteran ke arre stewart, and jennifer markovsky, 35-year-old mother of two. nine others were wounded, survivors hid in offices as gunshots rang throughout the building. we actually had a gun bullet go through the wall, came through one and went through the other. you could see the gunpowder and smell, smell it. it was just frightening at that point. reporter: dear s appearance comes as investigators try to determine a motive behind the planned parenthood attack. a law enforcement source tells cnn dear mentioned something about, quote, baby parts, and expressed antiabortion views. the comments come just months after a series of videos
the gunshots weren t like the ones i heard prior. because the ones i heard prior, they were clearly somewhere outside. it wasn t near. you could tell. it was not in the building. but when i heard around the second gunshots, you could clearly tell it was in the building. it was near. it was close. one of the ladies beside me started screaming. i had to tell her to remain calm, everything is fine. like i said, the gunshots were there, clear as day. we had a gun bullet go through our wall. it came through one and went through the other. you could see the gunpowder, smell it. it was just frightening at that point. we all just wanted to get out. about, i d say, 30, 45 minutes later, a police officer had contacted one of us and he let us know that he s coming. they re coming to get us. he wanted to know what end of the planned parenthood we were at and explained the procedures
heard the gunshot and saw the gunman outside and she ran into one of those back rooms and hid for several hours. this is how she described the situation. do you immediately recognize those as gunshots? no, i didn t. it took someone to tell me to get down, that there s a gunshot, even then, i couldn t register, because it felt so surreal. you could clearly tell it was in the building. it was near it was close. one of the ladies besides me started screaming, i had to tell her, remain calm, everything s fine, because the gunshots were there, as clear as day, we could hear it. we had a gun bullet go through our wall, it came through one and went through the other, and you could see the gun powder and smell it. and it was just frightening at that point. we all just wanted to get out. and that tanya has been re-living the trauma ever since. and adding to all the grief, she