him guilty of first-degree murder could hand him the death penalty. he was convicted on all 166 counts in the 2012 shooting. 12 people were killed 70 others injured. mike lavender is a friend of victim jessica redfield. he joins us now. mike, thank you for being here. i want to ask you first off do you feel that this is the proper verdict? how do you feel about it? is this justice? i do. feel that it is justice. for the for the longest time since the trial started and even before jessica s mom on facebook, you know, and seeing the posts throughout and sort of experiencing that through her facebook feed and talking with them and meeting with them and seeing the pain and what they re going through, especially during this trial, and i think having that accountability of saying you are guilty of this crime,
motives, including the possibility of domestic terrorism. msnbc s sarah dallof is tracking this, pete williams from d.c. and a deeper dive on lone wolf attacks with mike ikey here with me. bring us to speed on the latest from there. reporter: good afternoon, thomas. this is still a very active investigation with authorities on the scene overnight and into the day working pretty much around the clock to try to answer the difficult questions. now, while that continues, community is rallying in support around the victims and families. the military law enforcement. witnesses have been stopping by throughout the day to reclaim belongings in the chaos left behind. they tell us they re still in shock as to what they saw yesterday. real slow like it was no big deal. and he was in a silver convertible mustang.
conversation michael kay. retired officer. mike we ll get to the questions in a second. let s go off of what representative mccaul had to say about the fbi. the question lobbied by the reporter there, is whether or not he was confirms this was an isis inspired event, whether the shooter was inspired radicalized by isis and confirmed this is now a fbi terrorism case and the electronic devices they have that could really open up the details they need to find at least the link to find to connect it to isis. yeah. i think, thomas what this does is highlight the problem of radical islam. it tells me we have to focus even more on this holistic approach. we are focusing on foreign policy. talking about air strikes in syria. looking at drone strikes. we have really got to ask ourselves the question what good are they doing at the snoemt let s have a look