reporter: investigators here are this morning poring through the evidence they have collected and seized from the apartment that these two men shared here in phoenix. and they are trying to answer that very question. in addition to how close, if at all, were these two men to isis. the fbi filled a van with evidence from the gunmen s phoenix apartment. investigators scrubbing all items hoping to piece together a timeline of this plot. neighbors in their apartment complex saw nothing outwardly alarming from the two roommates except one of the men, elton simpson, put his car up for sale. i m getting goose bumps thinking about it right now. reporter: ariel. you re giving him money to go plot something. reporter: but he changed his mind instead driving it to texas. shortly before opening fire simpson tweeted an oath of allegiance a pseudonym for the leader of isis. but the first clues date back to
complex saw nothing outwardly alarming from the two roommates. ariel woodlock had been texting simpson who put his car up for sale. i m getting goose bumps right now. i wanted to buy that car. and knowing it is on, like, on the news i see it, just blowing up. i was going to purchase that car. you don t think like, maybe he is just going to go plot something. you are giving the money to help him go plot something. like how i feel now. that s crazy. neighbor tim rains never suspected, in fact he saw nadir sufi as a good samaritan, who helped him. you had can tact with oontac the men? one time a year ago. i come home. walking up this. i had a heart condition. i collapsed over here on to this steps, stairwell. and he seen all that. he came over and offered me help. how do you reconcile that with a guy who drives to texas
a threat. through this busted door way the gunmen lived. he grew up in pakistan and still has family there. elton simpson, convicted of lying to federal agents in 2011, but no other history of violence. neighbors and their apartment complex saw nothing outwardly alarming from the two roam mates. ariel whitlock had been texting simpson who put his car up for sale. i m getting goose bumps right now. i wanted to buy that car. and knowing it is on, like, on the news i see it, just blowing up. i was going to purchase that car. you don t think like, maybe he is just going to go plot something. you are giving the money to help him go plot something. like how i feel now. that s crazy. neighbor tim rains never suspected, in fact he saw nadir sufi as a good samaritan, who helped him. in a medical emergency.
they really show what a typical american upbringing he had. the pictures show that he s an avid athlete. he was the captain of his basketball team in high school. he grew up in a typical suburban community here in phoenix. he seemed to have a typical life in high school. investigators are now tracing his path, trying to figure out how he went from this to a life of radicalism and violence. neighbors in their apartment complex saw nothing outwardly alarming from the two roommates except one of the men elton simpson put his car up for sale. i m getting goose bumps thinking about it right now. reporter: ariel exchanged texts with simpson. you don t think like maybe he s just going to go plot something and you re giving the money to help him go plot something. reporter: he changed his mind. instead driving it to texas. shortly before opening fire simpson tweeted an oath of aleeance to a mirul mu mineen, a
you don t think he s going to go plot something and you re giving the money to help him go plot something. that s how i feel now. it s crazy. the neighbor never suspected. in fact, he sauna dear soofi as a good samaritan. you had contact with one of the men. one time about a year ago, i came home and i m walking up this and i had heartburn condition. and i collapsed over here onto this stairwell. and he seen all that and he came over and offered me help. how do you reconcile that with a guy that drives to texas and shoots people? it s easy. everybody has a good side to them. if you see somebody hurting like that, you re going to help them. you know, he s i think he went to texas to shoot people for a reason. the reason appeared to be inspired by isis. he wrote, the bro with me and myself have given bay ah an oath