coming on the scene, fbi either beginning to assist or if this becomes a federal hate crime take over the investigation. and there will be a tightly, tightly synced operation moving forward between local, state, federal, the intelligence community will become involved. there will be a tremendous move to get everybody on the same page to make sure everybody s got access to the same data set here so that when they probe into the suspect s past, everybody s information is synced with everybody else s. i want to bring you now some breaking news. we were getting fresh tweets on the shooting from the u.s. government, from the administration, vice-president pence has tweeted out, we re monitoring reports of shooting at tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh. praying for the fallen, the injured, all the families impacted and our courageous first responders. god bless them all. also the governor of pennsylvania, tom wolf taken to twitter, he writes these
the bullet did strike the side of the building or hit a window that you were not in harm s way. certainly they don t want anyone to leave their home or be out on the street, right? yeah, until the scene is secured, anyone in the immediate area is in grave danger, so actually the first thing, i don t know the first thing they do is make contact. make with the shooter. gone are the days where you surround and wait for emergency services to show up. the now the ments david, what do you make of the multiple shootouts with the first responding officer and then multiple shootouts with the s.w.a.t. team and then this suspect surrendering. may have very well ran out of ammunition, that s certainly possible. i mean, he clearly, he clearly fought back. you know, people need to understand that what does that tell you about
now from on the ground? what do you take away from this? give us some of your professional insight. well, based upon the camera feed from the helicopter, it would appear as though the s.w.a.t. team has rallied outside, which to me obviously means that the area has been rendered safe. they tend to pull together, take all of their team together and debrief a little bit at the scene before they move out of there. but this is the stage where, this moves from the control of the s.w.a.t. team, you know, this was a combat situation when it started. these s.w.a.t. team members are trained like special operations members of the military. they shoot and move, they know what they re doing and they re really necessary to stopping the danger. now that the danger is stopped, they just said, we re moving
things that somebody has said on social media as being hugely important? what s the balance? i think it s all it s the motivation behind it. prosecutors don t need to prove motive. they need to prove that a crime is committed, but juries go down the road and they like to hear the story and usually the motive of the story, why somebody was motivated to commit a heinous act. the other thing that law enforcement is considering, do anybody help the suspect, did anybody supply him weapons, did anybody drive him to the scene, how did he get there? who gave him bullets? did people give him refuge or know about this and not do anything? looking for co-conspirators that assisted in a minor way. as we saw in the pulse shooting, the wife driving her husband to the scene and after. and to see if there were other
duties of protecting others, taking care of the wounded and it will be days before we hear all of those stories. with that we can bring in former fbi special agent, member of fbi, hostage rescue team, greg schaffer. greg, specifically to this situation that conceivably a call went out that there was a shooter, one or two police officers arrived on the scene and then we had this massive swat team response. from what you ve been able to glean, how did they handle it, what do you make of multiple shootouts that occurred with this suspect? well, the running gun battle and i salute first of all, my thoughts and prayers to all victims and i do salute the people that responded so quickly and efficiently. having police officers run to