motive. tonight there are new questions about how the suspect was allowed to legally buy several guns despite previous threats of violence resulting in the confiscation of more than a dozen of his knives. correspondent garrett tenney is outside the lake county courthouse in waukegan, illinois. good evening, garrett. bret, good evening to you. today we learned the alleged gunman waived his miranda rights when taken into custody and shared details with investigators how he carried out the attack. prosecutor say the 2 #-year-old suspect emptied two full clips of ammo on the crowd at monday s fourth of july parade pausing to reload after each time until he fired more than 70 shots in total. we have also learned that a few hours later the suspect almost carried out a second attack, nearly 150 miles away in madison, wisconsin at another fourth of july celebration. it appears when he drove to madison he was driving around. he saw a celebration occurring in madison. he seriously co
still incomplete. the sheriff of tulsa county will be asked to clear up those questions when he holds a news conference again set to start about an hour from now. neighbors s gabe gutierrez continues to follow this for us. gabe, where do things stand right now? hi craig, good morning. as you mentioned, we re awaiting that news conference in a little less than an hour. over the past few days protesters have been asking prosecutors to take a closer look not just at that preserve deputy but at others who were seen on that video. mr. bates do you want to say anything? reporter: this morning there are new questions about reserve deputy robert bates training before he shot and killed eric harris, a suspect in a sting operation. don t judge eric based on that video alone because he was so much more than that. reporter: kathy frailley is the mother of harris 16-year-old son aden. this is the first time she spoke
enduring loss and path forward will be a long one. chris? molly, thank you. it is a parent s worst nightmare. you get a call your child s school is in lockdown. some families in newtown got that call friday. calls that led to relief or despair. joining us now is robert locata his son aden is a first grader saved by his teacher and ran to safety. his daughter was also unharmed. also joining us joe and lynn wassick as well as their daughter alexis who was in the 3rd grade at sandy hook. two days later, robert, how is your family doing? you know, we are taking it day by day and minute by minute. it s what both our son and our daughter saw is incomprehensible. we re trying to make sense of a senseless act. we speak to him. we make sure we understand what he is feeling.
enduring loss and path forward will be a long one. chris? molly, thank you. it is a parent s worst nightmare. you get a call your child s school is in lockdown. some families in newtown got that call friday. calls that led to relief or despair. joining us now is robert locata his son aden is a first grader saved by his teacher and ran to safety. his daughter was also unharmed. also joining us joe and lynn wassick as well as their daughter alexis who was in the 3rd grade at sandy hook. two days later, robert, how is your family doing? you know, we are taking it day by day and minute by minute. it s what both our son and our daughter saw is incomprehensible. we re trying to make sense of a senseless act. we speak to him. we make sure we understand what he is feeling.
never been faced with something of this magnitude. our focus is, again we have enough time dealing with it, processing all the information. try to get through this. judge, you may notice the flag pole in the center of town, the flag is at half staff but they re something missing and that is christmas decorations, a lot of people here felt it wasn t appropriate to celebrate in the face of all the tragedy and voluntarily took the christmas decorations down. back to you. how sad. mike to benn, thank so much. with us on the phone is robert la cota, whose six-year-old son aden was in schoolend. he actually witnessed the shooting of his teacher, vicky soto. robert, are you there? yes. all right. robert. thanks so much for being with us. tell us about your six-year-old. what did he see?