we begin with the latest developments in the mass shooting in illinois. six killed, 38 injured when a gunman opened fire at a fourth of july parade in highland park. that is an affluent suburb of chicago. this video shows a band playing as people begin to run. other footage caught the jarring sound of gunfire. [ gunfire ] imagine the shock and confusion. maybe it was fireworks, they could rightly think. no, those were gunshots. the series of shots you heard followed by a second round of shooting that lasted about 7 seconds. the gunman was on a rooftop with a high-powered rifle. parade-goers scattering in all directions once they realized what was happening. you see a band running there. the crowd left behind chairs, toys, baby strollers, and blankets. here s one witness describing that scene. a few minutes into the parade started, like, the marching band had just passed, i heard a subsequent pop, pop, pop, all in quick succession. i thought to myself, that s not that
some intervention before it leads to this violent act. this likely won t be the last time. some of this is, in some ways, preventable, if people come forward with information that can help law enforcement. it is a police chief s worst nightmare, the city s worst nightmare, a community s worst nightmare, to have a mass shooting like this. tom winter, this is a community certainly not accustom to really any violent crime, certainly anything like this. what more do we know about the investigation at this hour? willie, of course, to have a shooting at a and you said it earlier, this is a fourth of july day parade that looks like so many across the country. what we re waiting to hear is what type of charges might be filed in this case. it s certainly, based on the fbi seeking information poster and does not take somebody with my background to tell you, that homicide is definitely going to be there at the top of the list. we anticipate charges will
he is 5 11 , 120 pounds. numerous face tattoos, numerous neck tattoos, as we ve seen. he s posted a tremendous amount of material to pretty much every social media platform i can think of. youtube, facebook, spotify, twitter. this is somebody who is a who was named yesterday afternoon approximately 6 hours after the shooting began, which was around 11:14 a.m. eastern time. i think, willie, when you look at this, it was clear from the fbi seeking information poster yesterday that his vehicle was captured on some sort of a perhaps toll camera, something along those lines. it very clearly had the license plate visible, and that s the image we see. you know, did that play a part in them eventually getting on to this person? were they able to track his cell phone? that s something they have the ability to do in these types of incidents, either directly through the telecommunications
located on scene and has been swept by alexandria pd and the atf. and we will be processing with our fbi evidence recovery team as well. obviously, we are looking to glean what we can from the contents regarding his electrical devices that he owned. law enforcement has reason to believe that the shooter has been in alexandria, virginia, area since march of this year. the fbi has issued, again, seeking information poster that is located on our website, asking the public to come forward with information on the shooter. to the local alexandria community, we believe that the shooter has been living out of his vehicle in the vicinity of east monroe street, therefore asking you to report any interactions that you may have
just as the shooting unfolded. watch this. [ gunshot ] . [ gunshot ] [ gunshot ] [ bleep ]. awful, indeed. let s bring in evan perez. give us the latest on what investigators are saying about this shooting. wolf, at this point, the fbi is circulating that seeking information poster that we saw earlier in the press conference. one of the things here they want