down below. i think that s what made him roll down the stairs and the final shot was to back of his left ear. the kill shot? the kill shot, close range. they found shell casings in the parking lot, apparently from a 9 millimeter hand gun. but investigators did find marty s wallet, still on him complete with cash and credit cards. marty fear was not robbed. the other thing was that it was a very, very cold night, not a night where a prowler would be out on the street just looking to find someone, that made it very suspicious. investigators wouldn t imagine who would want to kill such a wonderful man, like captain marty fear. of course out in this dark parking lot, they didn t know what you know, not yet anymore. assuming what you have heard so far is the real story. and as you ll see, the question
will have state and local county texas dps, department of public safety and u.s. marshals and fbi. everybody that is available will be rolling out on any type of incident like this. we will have to figure out what the motive is here. is this a hate crime or possibly something else? i think we should go there yet. this did happen in a church. this is a very sad day. serve at mass and you hear 20 rounds going off. the eyewitness testimony sometimes i find not exactly 100% correct, but this sounds pretty much reliable. we are talking about 20 rounds and an automatic hand gun and rifle or possibly automatic weapon of some type.
what does that tell you? well, clearly, it was some type of semiautomatic or possibly automatic weapon. i mean, when you re talking 50 people, it could have been anything from a hand gun that holds 15 rounds and he reloaded that, or it could have been some type of rifle that is semiautomatic or automatic. so, clearly, this gunman had enough ammunition to cause a lot of destruction, clearly, that was his intent. luckily, it was stopped. arthel: vincent, as we report this horrible tragedy happening in a sacred place, a place that should be sacred, a place of worship, and we i was talking to one of your colleagues, a former boston police commissioner earlier, mr., commissioner ed davis saying that there are some common sense things that we can do to somehow avoid these types of tragedies from happening. when you hear that sort of a statement from commissioner davis, what sort of actions come
bullet found in smoot s home. his missing hand gun appeared be the murder weapon. hat s a huge connection? it is pretty much the connection. reporter: in june of 2012, eight months after brooke was killed, shawn smoot was indicted on charges of first degree murder. did you immediately identify with her just being this young woman who was clearly so vulnerable? oh, absolutely. reporter: prosecutors bob edwards and tiffany starr smith saw this case as a relationship turned deadly. we re still talking about domestic violence. we re still talking about orders of protection, and all of the things that go wrong in those situations. reporter: you had no witnesses. you had no dna from your suspect. you had no murder weapon. that s a lot of things you didn t have. if we didn t feel like we could prosecute it, and be successful, we would ve never indicted it. we would have never proceeded with it. circumstantial cases are allow you to be creative.
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