and i ll add one to that. the fact that he shot a bunch of people and i m going to presume some of those people are individuals he didn t know. he clearly, in my mind, didn t intend to die in the incident. my first reaction to that as a former counterterrorism guy, is this someone who had a jihadist, a suicidal tendency? looking at what he did, going in, surviving the incident, shooting this many people at a high school he attended, when he posted those kinds of things on social media, my initial reaction is he had some kind of grievance that does not relate to the world i used to live in, the counterterrorism world. it s a grievance his family will know about, his friends on social media will know about. to pick up on james point, it s a grievance you re going to look at and say how do you prevent somebody like that from a grievance that might affect a million kids from entering into a school zone? i don t think you can do it, anderson. julia, reporting the weapon
the sheriff talked about it and multiple magazines and what we have learned is that the atf is tracing that weapon in hopes of trying to find out did he buy this weapon his own. did someone buy it for him. learn the history of this weapon trying to answer questions here about where he got this gun. i think i heard your report earlier, that he had arrived and when he pulled the thing, he had a gas mask. that is coming from the florida senator. he was saying he was wearing a gas mask and had smoke bombs as well. we have not been able to confirm that with law firm. we have no reason to believe he doesn t know what he is talking about. but again, goes to the level of planning. there are indications from law enforcements that this was well-planned. how well-known was this former student who is 19-years old known to other students. so law enforcement has talked
year or the year before. that was confirmed by the sheriff. who said the suspect had been expelled for disciplinary reasons. there s poetsings by the person we think is the suspect. if they re all him, what happened today was completely telegraphed by the shooter himself. do we know anything about the persons family? didn t anybody who was close to him any family member weren t they aware of the postings? we are unclear of the family situation. that may have been a big problem in his life. we don t have that nailed down. we re trying to germ if in fact he had parents at the time of the shooting. we are looking into that, trying to track it down. it s all influx. again the postings as eluded to by the sheriff show a very dark individual. forecasting exactly what happened. specifically with the weapon.
these posts. and we have the gun. the gun we re learning is this ar 15 rifle. the sheriff talked about it. and multiple magazines. now what we have learned is if the atf is tracing ta weapon. in hopes of trying to find out did he buy it on his own, did someone buy it for him. to learn the history of the weapon. to answer questions here about where he got the gun. i think i heard you report earlier about an hour ago he had actually arrived and pulled the thing he had a gas mask, is that correct? that s coming from the senator. saying he was wearing a gas mask. there was smoke bombs as well. he s been on our air today and said it several times. we have not been able to confirm that with law enforcement. again we have no reason to believe he doesn t know what he s talking about. again it goes to the level of planning. there are indications from law enforcement that this was a well planned. how well known was this
going break down the incident response by pulling the fire alarm and forcing people to come out. i think one of the difficult questions we ll see in the next day or two is if a young teenager decides he wantings to kill a lot of people in and acquires a weapon that is legally acquired and gets into a high school, how will you prevent him from accessing tens or hundreds of students? what s the preventive measure? people want answers and i m not sure the answer is that we ll find any answer. i don t think so. actually, the fbi and broward county are asking people who have video and you heard one of the teachers talk about snap chat. we showed one video. asking, saying they tweeted out this. the fbi set up a web site where you can up load image and video of the shooting. visit fbi.gov/parkland shooting. to submit information you have on the shooting that occurred.