Tonight, police are scrambling to figure out why a man described aiser rattic and paranoid went on a deadly shooting rampage at a louisiana Movie Theater. Were standing by for a News Conference by officials in lauch yet. Court documents reveal that 59yearold john houser had a history of Mental Illness and that Family Members were so scared of him that they got a restraining order back in 2008. Police say houser shot and killed two people wounded nine others before turning his 40caliber hand gun on himself. Survivors say there was mass confusion and panic as once again a night out at an american Movie Theater turned into a night of reallife horror. We have correspondents analysts and newsmakers standing by as we cover all the news thats breaking right now. First lets go to our National Correspondent ryan nobles joining us from lafayette, louisiana, with the very latest. Ryan . Wolf we are still waiting for that News Conference expected to happen in just a few minutes. Back behind me thi
had mass shootings. they occur in grade schools, high schools, colleges movie theaters shopping malls. any time people gather sporting events you re going to have a soft target with multiple people vulnerable. it s a crazy situation now. there were presumably some signs that this individual houser may be dangerous. right? yeah. we hear about the signs now. but at the time besides how many people get restraining orders against somebody else against a family member we hear about those things all the time. i think these law enforcement authorities, the police the lafayette, louisiana, police chief jim craft, louisiana state police colonel michael edmondson, governor bobby jindal i anticipate he s going to be at this news conference. the sheriff, michael neustrom from lafayette parish in louisiana. looks line bobby jindal is right there, being chased by some reporter camera crews. he s going to be speaking as well. we re going to get an update on
charles? do you know anything about that? yeah we have investigators that went to lake charles today to interview those folks. i think it was a church maybe. or a service run by a church. and i think they gave him some food and some money. and we re working with the state police detectives and the parish sheriff s office to talk to those folks and determine if that is the case. thank you very much. will there be any additional updates? no. tonight there won t be any additional updates. we have a lot of lot of work to do. and we will we will notify you when it is time to provide some additional information. all right, so there you have it. the police chief of lafayette, louisiana, chief jim craft, giving us the latest on this investigation on what happened. we also heard from bobby jindal the governor of louisiana. i want to quickly get some