the murder of russel douglas. then came a question investigators thought would certainly get jim s attention interrogator: who s bill hill? he s a friend of mine who lives here. bass player. interrogator: mm. does that surprise you, that i brought up that name? ye yes. interrogator: why? because you re from whidbey island? interrogator: would it surprise you that i ve been talking to him almost daily for the last week and a half? yeah, it would surprise me. i just wanted to see a reaction. up until that point, he was playing it pretty cool. and i think i got the reaction i was hoping for. it kind of deflated him a bit. so we re at truth or dare time, jim. yeah. you know what you ve told bill. he s your best friend in the whole world. the guy s falling apart over this literally, falling apart over the guilt
this juncture? reporter: tea coleman, heard her shedding light on an important question investigators will be asking the other survivors of this tragedy. that s, what about those life jackets? the boat still at the bottom of his lake. se salvages the boat intact will be port. the ntsb leading this investigation tells us, it would be, they expect, could be a year before they re able to issue a report that details what led to the death of 17 people. as they said, speaking with survivors will be key as well as eyewitnesses and first responders. stunning eyewitness video of the moments that this boat capsized and sank were captured. you mentioned, the ag in town. the state s top law enforcement officer for a briefing. many of the ntsb hasn t been on the ground much loaninger than
the buildings fell. it s the scale of that event. it s vastly different from this. to hear these staffers with all the emotion that they re going through, with all the trauma that they have seen, working to put out a newspaper to inform their community is amazing. we don t know the motive of the shooter. if the shooter was going after the journalists there, if there was some other reason for as sick as it might be, why this individual went there with a long gun and started killing people. that s key question investigators trying to figure out. i have to say, an amazing amount of resilience for the staff to go forward putting a paper out tomorrow. amazing to see that. you are right, we don t know the motive. as we think about what could have possibly caused this individual to do this, a couple of key points that we have made. when we talk about how this was not well planned, it s likely there was something that
then came a question investigators thought would certainly get jim s attention interrogator: who s bill hill? he s a friend of mine who lives here. bass player. interrogator: mm. does that surprise you, that i brought up that name? ye yes. interrogator: why? because you re from whidbey island? interrogator: would it surprise you that i ve been talking to him almost daily for the last week and a half? yeah, it would surprise me. i just wanted to see a reaction. up until that point, he was playing it pretty cool. and i think i got the reaction i was hoping for. it kind of deflated him a bit. so we re at truth or dare time, jim. yeah. you know what you ve told bill. he s your best friend in the whole world. the guy s falling apart over this literally, falling apart over the guilt he s carrying aroundecause you told him what you did.
until they get here? or? as long as you need me to, okay? yeah i m think about because i already poured gasoline all over the house. i might just set it on fire. we don t need to do that, okay? in a little bit i might. here s what happened next. working with the information police investigators and the s.w.a.t. team arrived at the home of 28-year-old andrew finch. he answered the door. there was an exchange there, and according to investigators, mr. finch moved his hands towards his waistband at which time the police opened fire shooting as killing this 28-year-old father of two. important to point out, from the looks of things here, mr. finch had nothing to do with this. he wasn t even the intended target of this prank. so how did they end up at his house? that s a question investigators want to pose to a 25-year-old man that s currently in custody in california. he has not phased charges quite