he was very quiet. he didn t talk that much, and when he did talk, he seemed very gentle. he didn t seem like aggressive or anything at all. it was very shocking that somebody i know. very heart breaking. i never thought it could happen in any town, or especially someone that i know at all. reporter: despite the social media posts, an uncle who lived with the suspect told cnn his nephew was not violent. the warning signs, i saw him yesterday evening, and i went home, and i said, i went down stairs and said bye. that was it. that was it. i see no, nothing that could trigger him doing that. the weapon, do you have any idea where i m not sharing that, no. reporter: despite what this uncle say, we now know the warning signs, the suicide attempt, threatening his family, the confiscation of the knife collection. and disturbing social media posts online. despite that, he was able to purchase handguns and rifles legally. including the rifle he used to slaughter seven pe
and looking at the fall and winter, we re preparing forr a variety of scenarios. i thinkva a potentiallyly a difficult one if we get a resurgence of infection. very, very scary. and by the way, if you happene to be african-american, they want you to be afraid of police because they ll tell indiscriminately killed for no reason other than the color of your skin. onnbecause it s an epidemic out there of police involved shootingsutved . what exactly will it take too stop this level of execution style killing of black men law enforcement? be it seems to be at the top f the list. the attorney general to address white supremacy and those or in law enforcement and outside of law enforcement around the country that are targeting black and brown people. oh , that s an uglydi lie. the truth is , if suspect simply do not resist arrest, they don t run away.ook like they don t turn and look like the fine going to policeic the chance ofe. being injured, let alone shot by a policet off
injured including children. a suspect now under arrest after leading officers on a brief chase. authorities say he fired on the crowd from a rooftop where they recovered a high powered rifle. witnesses describe chaos, some hid behind and inside dump sisters, under cars, gas stations. the parade left with abandoned strollers, camping chairs, bikes littered the ground an one lone shoe lost in the panic. i saw people shot and killed around me. and a lot of people hiding. and they let us go back to get our car keys and everything. and right where we were, there was a girl dead. another man shot in the ear. someone was on the ground with his leg in the air and the girl crying next to him. and my mom and i saw at least three more people on the ground like bloody. i don t know better man is there for us. what are we learning this morning about the shooting? all right yeah,. reporter: you see this is a parade that people come to from decades, from all the towns surrounding he
around the world, i m john berman in highland, park, illinois, about 25 miles north of chicago. brianna keilar in new york this morning. behind me is the scene where now 24 hours ago six people were killed in a fourth of july parade. another 25 injured. and you can see the street behind me, it s a moment frozen in time. it was 10:15 a.m. where a shooter opened fire from a rooftop two blocks hence. but you can see the streets here littered with the beach chairs, towels, i see a frisbee, a beach ball, frozen in time, where people fled in every direction when they heard dozens of gunshots ring out from that roof. now, police say the shooter got to the roof from a back alley using a ladder, they called the shooting intentional, but random. now, eight hours after the shooting itself police did apprehend a person they re calling a person of interest. they also called this 22-year-old man a suspect. they got him after a short police chase. police got him on a road about five miles f
it was because of his time in the military. that s what it sounded like. the street behind me frozen in time, you can still see the chairs strewn about, the beach chairs where people were lined up for this moment of celebration for july 4th, left where they were, as people fled the scene in terror. the rifle, a rifle was discovered soon after the shooting on the rooftop. we have some new information about that rifle, which we ll bring to you in just a moment. the shooter himself, who the police are calling a person of interest to be clear, that s what i should call him, they obtained or apprehended a person of interest eight hours after the shooting, after a short chase. one policeman saw the suspect and then called for backup, he was apprehended, taken into custody on the street. one of our reporters was there, you ll hear from him in just a moment as well. again, the scene as it unfolded here was a pure moment of terror. earlier this morning, i had a chance to speak to a co