his mental health is really the focus of the investigation. i think one of the things the fbi is doing, they have behavioral experts in quantico who study shootings like this to try to determine whether there s something they can learn for future events like this. and the etchings we re showing this to the viewers, some of the still photos of that sawed-off shotgun. there you see, i don t know if you can make out what some of the words were. but i can t read is from where i am right now, but the fbi agent in charge, valerie, she did read what those etchings were. you wrote them down, right? right, right. that s right. that s right. he one of them, he had some purple tape, apparently, wrapped around part of the shotgun.
utilized. both weapons were recovered at the scene and have been submitted to the fbi laboratory for forensic analysis. we will not be releasing any further information on the sequence of the shootings or his movements around the building at this time. as our evidence response teams remain at the scene as they complete their forensic work and efforts continue on ballistic and video analysis. we can say that the remming ton 870 shotgun had been altered with a sawed off barrel and stock. pu purple duct tape covered the end of the stock and handwritten etchings were present on various parts of the shotgun. etched into the barrel of the shotgun were the words, quote, end to the torment, closed quote. etched into the right side of
one of them said not what y all say. another said better off this way and the other said my elf weapon. they were etched into the tape and sides of the shotgun, which was sawed off before he got there. not what y all say, so who knows what that meant? but you can clearly see it on the still photo of the shotgun that the fbi has now released but it s very chilling to think about what was going on in this guy s mind. there were major, major issues there that clearly weren t detected by the security personnel who gave him the clearances and allowed him to, as you can see, drive into this navy yard in that car and walk around, go into a men s room with that bag, take out the shotgun, and kill 12 people and wound many, many others. we re going to continue to watch this, get more information.
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