client will not fight extradition to california but will fight the charges. his brother douglas says the family is relieved. we hope he will finally be held accountable for all he has done. clayton sandell. abc news, los angeles. incredible story to watch. next to our other top story. this morning, an arrest in the shooting of two police officers in ferguson, missouri. prosecutors say the suspect admits he fired the shots but was not targeting the police. his arrest not doing much to ease distrust in the divided city. here s the report. he is now charged with, two counts of assault in the first degree for the two police officers who were shot. reporter: prosecutors say 20-year-old jeffrey williams was the triggerman whose gunfire cut down two policemen outside ferguson police headquarters. this was the scene early thursday when bullets turned a protest into chaos. he has acknowledged his participation. in firing the shots. reporter: the prosecutor said williams fired a .40
this guy was the triggerman as it were, or was even at the scene. so i think what we re going to see is he s been charged on one count. he s pled not guilty. he will be held without bail obviously, assigned counsel. and then i would look for what we call a superseding indictment because what the government said today and saying all along is that this investigation is ongoing. so they had the one in some sense, the easy count today, but i would expect in the future we will see a superseding indictment and very likely that his charges will become even more serious, that is include charges that are death penalty eligible. how long can we expect all this to take? he s brought here today. as jennifer griffin reported, he has a court appearance next week. almost certainly will be denied bail and held there in federal custody. yes. so how long does this all play out? when is it possible we would see a trial?
the first time we watched the video, i think we all said the exact same thing that i said on the video. oh because even though we d watched the scene unfold in real life, you still don t see it coming. that s a lot of like patting on the back like, glad you made it through. the only reason that i think we didn t get blown up was the triggerman was a little slow or didn t have his timing right. i think maybe we were moving faster than he anticipated. the entire squad spends the next five days scouring the area of the explosion for the insurgents responsible for the attack. although they never find the men who planted the ied, they do eventually secure this area of mosul and rebuild the road for safe passage. it s one of those things where it s very personal when you get attacked. i ve had a lot of ieds blow up on my vehicle, even on my door of my vehicle.
good evening, sir. good evening, greta. two of the men in this charged with first degree murder and the other one, the driver, is an accessory after the fact in another related charge. can you tell me why the driver has a lesser offense when he was in the car? and i assume that the passengers charged as an aider and abetter to the triggerman. why isn t the driver? i can t get into a lot of detail with respect to why the driver is only using those words only charged with a lesser crime except to say what has been presented to us the charges are appropriate for this particular situation. and as i talked in open court tuesday and pointed out to the judge in my request to deny bond for edwards and well, to deny for the two charged with murder in the first degree, what we ended up with there was a situation where i told the court that those two absolutely had
soldiers gather around to watch it. the first time we watched the video, i think we all said the exact same thing that i said on the video. oh because even though we d watched the scene unfold in real life, you still don t see it coming. that s a lot of like patting on the back like, glad you made it through. the only reason that i think we didn t get blown up was the triggerman was a little slow or didn t have his timing right. i think maybe we were moving faster than he anticipated. the entire squad spends the next five days scouring the area of the explosion for the insurgents responsible for the attack. although they never find the men who planted the ied, they do eventually secure this area of mosul and rebuild the road for safe passage. it s one of those things where it s very personal when you get attacked. i ve had a lot of ieds blow up on my vehicle, even on my door