shooting now charged with seven counts of first degree murder. more charges coming police say. police say they had two calls about the gunman back in 2019, one in april was a report about him attempting suicide. that was ultimately handled by mental health professionals. and then in september, a family member called police saying he had threatened to, quote, kill everyone. in that case officers con confiscated a collection of knives and a sword. at this point they say there was who probable cause to arrest him, but a short time later he legally purchased five firearms including a pistol and the high powered rifle he used to kill innocent people. which raises questions about the earlier police visits and whether more could have been done to prevent this tragedy. investigators also revealing the suspect may have been planning this attack for weeks, several weeks. and they say that afterwards he wore women s clothing as you see here to conceal his identity and facial tattoos. th
government archive who only in 2020 gave thesis really filmmakers access. heinous. hadas, thank you so much for sharing that with us. new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the united states and all around the world, it is wednesday, july 6th, i m john berman with brianna keilar. important new questions being raised this morning about the man accused of murdering seven people at the july 4th parade in highland park, illinois. why was he allowed to purchase guns, the weapons he used or is suspect of using despite specific interactions with police? some new information this morning. investigators say the suspect may have planned the attack for several weeks and that he dressed in women s clothing during the shooting to conceal his identity and facial tattoos. he had had two incidents with law enforcement in 2019, first when authorities were notified about a suicide attempt, and later after a family member reported he had threatened to, quote, kil
dozens others hospitalized. police are calling this attack on paradegoers both random and intentional. i do want to warn you, some of the video you re about to see is disturbing. it sounded like a string of firecrackers going off inside of a metal trash bin. that s what i thought it was. 20, 30, maybe. i just grabbed my dad and we ran and suddenly everyone was running behind us. and people were just shot behind us. there was a girl just dead. another man was shot in the ear, blood all over his face. you look down and you saw just people screaming, you saw people on the ground. and i think the instinct is of a physician to not run away. some of the bodies were there was an evisceration injury from the power of this gun. and the bullets. there was another person who had an unspeakable head injury. these are the bullets in guns that 18-year-olds have a right to shoot down on a parade in the sleepy little community july 4th parade. if you re angry today, i m here to t
25 of those with gunshot wounds. now, just moments ago as you may have seen police announced they nowha have a suspect. robert bobby crimo iii, age 22. he is believed to be driving a 2010 silver honda fit, described as a white male, approximately 18 to 20 years old, small build, long black hair, wearing a white or blue t-shirt. police also recovered what they believe to be the weapon,po a high-powered rifle. they said the suspect should be considered armed and dangerous. local authorities have beenns holding a press conference just about every n hour. so we expect to hear from them again soon. obviously, the last update signified significant progress in the manhunt investigation. we re going to bring you that conference once it begins. so stand by here. i want to play you some video that appears to show the moment that this all started. i should warn you, of course, it s really ldupsetting video. you will hear gunshots. you will see people fleeing. and it is in fact very dist
trying to get more information about it. what can you tell us about this attack? anything more about the type of weapon that was used? and can you guarantee that no one was killed besides zawahiri? all good questions, brianna. so, look, this mission really took shape over the course of the last six, seven months. it was really sort of early this year as you heard the president say we got indications that mr. zawahiri had moved into afghanistan. so what we re able to do is stitch together some intelligence, based on the movements of his family, quite frankly, and then once we tracked them into kabul, we were able to then be able to track him and his efforts to reunite them. that led then to weeks if not several months, of making sure that we had the right guy, that this was, in fact, mr. zawahiri, and that this was in fact their residence and then, of course, developing a pattern of life. his habits, if and when he went outside, how often, on what days, for how long, all tha