daughter liz shacheney. get your popcorn ready. it is the summer of donald trump, ladies and gentlemen. what do you think of donald trump? i don t know the man. i ve never met him. watching this whole spectacle, what do you think? he s a candidate. i don t want to be in the business of rating candidates at this point or grading them. i have not signed on with anybody. and i don t plan to today. you re not endorsing donald trump today? you can even that s a given. i m not endorsing donald trump today. let me try it this way, why do you think he s doing so well in the polls? i ve been surprised he s done as well as he has. i think most of us have on the republican side. but he clearly is a major factor going forward. and we ll watch developments with interest. liz, why do you think he s doing so well in the polls? since the vice president is punting on this question. hoping that i ll dive in, right? look, i
gun, 15 shots in all, before walking back to his truck and driving off. on this spot now, a memorial of teddy bears and flowers has blossomed in deputy goforth s honor. the casings were matched to a gun found in miles garage. the sheriff says deputy goforth was targeted because he wore a uniform. this rhetoric has gotten out of control. we ve heard black lives matter, all lives matter. cops lives matter too. why don t we drop the qualifier and just say lives matter and take that to the bank. reporter: he bounced around various houston area colleges, including the university where sandra bland was supposed to work. don t touch my. i m not under arrest.
out why he shot darren goforth 15 times with no apparent provocation. the harris county sheriff says he was targeted for just being a police officer. at this juncture we find no other provocation other than he was wearing a uniform. this should be labeled a hate crime. should that be the case? if we can demonstrate because he was wearing a uniform, that would qualify. the suspect has a rap sheet and history of mental illness. cnn s ed lavandera has more from houston. reporter: we have learned in october of 2012, shannon miles was arrested and criminally charged with assault with a deadly weapon in austin, texas. he never went to trial on that charge. instead, he was found mentally
fascinating according to the prosecutor, was shannon miles own hands. miles was sent to a mental hospital for six months after which the court ruled he was competent to stand trial but the trial did not happen. it was at that point prosecutors could not find the victim in the case and ended up dropping the case entirely. so what implications could this possibly have on the current case he s facing? it s a serious case. it s murder, likely capital murder. likely death penalty and his attorney is kind enough to join me right live now. anthony osso is in houston. thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me as a public defender you do some terrific work, you and your colleagues. this is going to be an extraordinarily difficult case. i have to ask you right off the bat, did shannon miles shoot that sheriff s deputy in cold blood at point blank range?
prosecutors could not finds, we re told, the other homeless man in that case so it couldn t be brought to trial. so obviously, mental health issues playing a significant role in that case. we ve also learned tonight here in harris county that prosecutors have issued a subpoena going after the hospital records of another mental hospital here in the houston area for any records pertaining to shannon miles as well. in the documents, the prosecutors say they don t know the exact dates of the treatment. but obviously, prosecutors trying to get their hands on more medical mental health records involving schwanson miles. and the d.a. presented evidence in court today. what did they have linking this guy to the killing? well, they had several things. really the most detailed account of the way everything unfolded here in the gas station parking lot. the prosecutors say they have ballistic evidence tieing the shell casings found at the murder scene to a weapon that was discovered in the gar