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semiautomatic pistol and several hundred rounds of ammunition. the weapons were taken from his family s home. investigators have not released a motive. las vegas police releasing new details on the husband-wife team who gunned down two police officers and an armed bystander sunday. investigators now say a sheriff s deputy fired the shot that killed jerad miller just seconds before his wife, amanda, killed herself there on the floor of the walmart. she did not fire at her husband, as police previously thought. the gruesome scene captured on surveillance video. last night, anderson cooper spoke with the mother of joseph wilcox, the man who died trying to prevent more bloodshed. i just want everybody to know, yeah, he was my hero. i wish he was here today and i want to thank everybody out there for everything they re saying and doing for him, because he deserves this. thank you all. and this morning we re learning about missed opportunities, jerad miller s past run-ins with the law,
mr. wilcox had a chance to do the same. he could have escaped, but he chose to stay and confront the danger. he had a concealed weapon. the kind of man he was with his mother debra wilcox and his sister. i m so sorry for your loss and i appreciate you taking the time to be here. tell me about your son. what was he like? he was your average, normal kid. i can call him a kid, i keep forgetting he was a 31-year-old grown man. he liked going to the movies, he liked to go four-wheeling with his sister. he loved helping people, which is what got him into this. he helped his grandparents all the time. just a good kid. c.j., what do you want people to know about your brother? um, he was a protector. i mean, he was one of the people i trusted most.
surveillance tape. last night, the mother of joseph wilcox, who died trying to stop the rampage, spoke to anderson cooper. and believed if they didn t get their attention and unfortunately, the woman that shot him, their attention would have been on something else. i ve been told that by many people, that because of him, he stopped a lot of other people from dying. i m grateful for that, i am. he did a heroic thing, but i just wish i could bring him back home. a mother s anguish there. jerad miller had come to the attention of police in the past for allegedly making violent threats while living in indiana. all right, the truck driver in the tracy morgan crash has pleaded not guilty. 35-year-old kevin roper was arraigned in new jersey wednesday on charges of vehicular homicide and assault by auto. police say he was awake for 24 consecutive hours before his big rig slammed into morgan s limo, injuring four and killing
you. looks like they re shooting at each other. reporter: in the chaotic, final moments in the shootout of the killers and the police, officers thought the wife seen here raising and pointing the handgun at her husband fired the shot that killed him. seen here at the top. but forensic and autopsy results show police had by now already fired what would be the fatal bullet. both are wounded. and bleeding. he s knocked down. reporter: we are stopping the video as the wife turns the gun on herself. female just shot herself in the head. the reason you re not seeing the video prior to this or subsequent to this because it s very graphic. reporter: investigators released the video saying it gives a window into the brutality of the killers. minutes earlier, they murdered joseph wilcox who tried to stop the millers with the concealed handgun at aal mart. nearby, they ambushed officers soldo and beck on the bodies