police say a single gunman with an ar 15 type rifle fired upwards of 70 rounds from a rooftop into the crowd. the suspect now in custody charged tonight with seven counts of murder. apparently a young nobody with a history of posting violent images online. they had encounters in 2019 one involving a reported suicide attempt. the other after a family member told police he said he was going to quote kill everyone. they took 16 knives at that time. we won t show his photograph or use his name. we ll tell you what we know about the peoples whose lives he took. a lifelong member of the north shore congregation. where she served as an event coordinator. before that a preschoolteacher. local shopkeeper says she always brought a smile and a hug and a beautiful ray of light. jackie was 63. nicholas had come from mexico to visit family in high land park. father of eight, granddaughter told us he loved fishing and painting and walks with his family. according to the times he was sitti
police say a suingle gunman fired 70 rounds from a rooftop. the suspect in custody charged with seven counts of murder a young nobody with a history of posting violence online. police say they had two encounters with him in 2019, one involving a reported suicide attempt, the other after a family member told police he said he was going to quote kill everyone. they confiscated 16 knives at that time. as always, we ll not show his photo or use his name but we ll begin telling you what we know about the people whose lives he allegedly took. jackie was lifelong member in israel where she was an event coordinator and had a smile and hug and beautiful ray of light. jac jackie was 63. nicholas came to visit family in high highland park, he said he loved fishing, painting and walks with his family. according to the times he was sitting in a wheelchair. another grand daughter told the times we brought him here to have a better life. he was 78. 35 and 37-year-olds were at the parade
behind and how quickly they left. the chaos the confusion. and the violence of what happened in the spot. it is starting to become hollow ground. people from town coming down here to take in this scene. they walk up to the yellow tape and some of them burst into tears. also starting to put up makeshift memorials. and hang orange ribbons for prevention of gun violence all throughout the area. and i m guessing we ll see a very big memorial pop up here in the hours ahead. yeah. we were showing the side of the screen images of vice president kamala harris there greeting the mayor. police officials as well. her making comments any moment, we ll bring those to the viewers. appreciate it. cnn senior investigator has been looking deeper into what authorities have been learning.
burst into tears. they re also starting to put up makeshift memorials and hang orange ribbons for prevention of gun violence all throughout this area and i m only guessing we ve seen too many times we ll see a very big memorial pop up here in the hours ahead. anderson? yeah, miguel, we were just showing on the side of our screen, images of vice president kamala harris there greateting e mayor and police officials, as well. we anticipate her making comments any moment. we ll obviously bring them to the viewers. appreciate it. correspondent drew griffin has been looking deeper into what authorities have been learning. he joins us now. drew, what have you learned about the weapon used in this attack? reporter: it was one of five that the shooter legally owned and when you hear about the shooter and the red flags in his