around the world, i m john berman in highland, park, illinois, about 25 miles north of chicago. brianna keilar in new york this morning. behind me is the scene where now 24 hours ago six people were killed in a fourth of july parade. another 25 injured. and you can see the street behind me, it s a moment frozen in time. it was 10:15 a.m. where a shooter opened fire from a rooftop two blocks hence. but you can see the streets here littered with the beach chairs, towels, i see a frisbee, a beach ball, frozen in time, where people fled in every direction when they heard dozens of gunshots ring out from that roof. now, police say the shooter got to the roof from a back alley using a ladder, they called the shooting intentional, but random. now, eight hours after the shooting itself police did apprehend a person they re calling a person of interest. they also called this 22-year-old man a suspect. they got him after a short police chase. police got him on a road about five miles f
held for nearly two months charged with possession of cannabis. a trial for these charges began just on friday. let s get right to kylie atwood at the state department with much more on the content of this letter. kylie. yeah, john, brittney griner in this letter that was delivered to president biden yesterday wrote about just how different this july 4th was for her in russian prison. of course, she said it has been painfully different because she s used to being in the united states celebrating american freedom, celebrating american veterans. she spoke about how her father was a vietnam war veteran. now, she s in prison. one of the powerful excerpts from this letter she talked about how fearful it is that she could be detained there a long time. she said in this letter to president biden, quote, as i sit near a russian prison alone with my thoughts and without protection of my wife, family,
analyst. andy, they got a person they re calling a person of interest and suspect. about eight hours after the shooting itself yesterday evening. what are they doing this morning? well, john, you know, your viewers can probably tell me just as well what they re doing this morning because we ve been through this so many times. but what the fbi and local police are doing right now is building out, first of all, a time line of events leading up to this attack. so they are sorting through every piece of evidence they can find about the shooter. you heard already about some of the information they found about his online presence. the music videos and other things he posted on youtube. they re really looking at messages, text messages, communications he may have had with friends, associates or family members. and they want to understand when did they arm himself. when did he start thinking about this attack. at what point did he start taking steps to prepare for it. to understand every sin
have the person who did this in custody. what do you think makes them so certain? well, john, calling that person a suspect is when you are convinced beyond any doubt that you have tied, physically tied, this person to that shooting scene. whether that s recovering his fingerprints from the weapon that you know was used. or maybe if he was captured on video surveillance accessing the crime scene or something like that. so they re just being exceedingly cautious in referring to him as a person of interest. we all know this is the suspect, the person they re looking for responsible for this crime as far as the videos are concerned, you know, they might help the prosecution in terms of showing is that he had a foreknowledge of what he was doing, that he had planned these events, things like that. really, it goes mostly to the things we talk add be first. putting you inside the mind of this killer, developing a better
understanding of how this mass shooting took place. what pushed this individual to take this horrible step. the more we can understand that, the better we may be positioned to prevent acts like this in the future. and that s the goal. andy mccabe, thank you so much for being with us. thanks, john. brianna. in philadelphia, two veteran police officers were shot and injured just before the fourth july fireworks were starting there while working security detail on the benjamin franklin parkway. the gunfire set off a chaotic scene of people running for their lives in the birth of our nation s fourth of july. cnn s jean casarez is here. jean, do they know who started this? no, they are in the preliminary aspect of this investigation. and it was a philadelphia highway patrol after that was grazed in the head. and montgomery county sheriff s