this is, i think, a real dilemma. it is not easy to do. i think and my view has been after a long time of watching this since the first mass shooting in 1968 at the texas bell tower, is that we have to care about the kinds of weapons that are available to people, and here you have a .223 mp-15, mp standing for military and police. that was the supposed use of this weapon. it s an ar-15 type weapon. it s made by smith & wesson. whether it has a bullet button in it that would make it legal to use in california or to sell in california, i don t know. supposedly, senator, he went to a gun store in van nuys, bought this assault rifle legally without any problems with magazines and all of that.
they were alert and able to talk to medical personnel at the hospital. our pete williams is standing by. pete, what more do you have for us? reporter: well, thomas, several officials now tell us that the gunman who entered the washington navy yard this morning heavily armed and began firing shots is dead. the navy had earlier used the term neutralized which could have meant either that he was no longer in a medical condition where he could fire any shots, but we re told now that he is dead. we don t know anything about him yet. they re still working to identify him. that will move along very quickly now that this appears to be winding down. they ll try to find out, you know, why he did this. all we know is that he is a man about six feet tall, that he came in this morning all dressed in black, heavily armed with three weapons. a military-style assault rifle, so-called, ar-15 type weapon. that would be a semiautomatic weapon. you heard the woman from the
neil: you know, this pressure cooker use, a lot of these explosives were contained in pressure cooker type devices hidden in backpacks. very analogous to the type of devices we are told were used in afghanistan and pakistan. so that once again raised the issue, they almost have to have been foreign born. but as you pointed out in the atlanta case, not always. and i think in the times square case it was a similar type weapon that was averted in new york, and in fact there was a taliban group that claimed responsibility for that. no such responsibility claim this time. what are we to make of that? first of all you re absolutely right. the pressure cooker device is commonly used in afghanistan and pakistan and india. they ve used those for ieds. but that s because it is a cooking utensil that is readily
nine, at this movie theater, movie center. and then they had absolute chaos as some of the people realized they were being choked by the gas and he started opening fire. according to witnesses, very calmly walked up the stairs and just seemed to randomly be picking people out of the audience and shooting at them. we have quentin caldwell, a witness joining us by phone. thanks for talking to me. tell me where you were in the movie theater complex, 16 screens. we were in theater eight, ajas ent to where the incident happened. me and my wife go to the super hero premieres and decided to go this one night. there were many theaters in which the movie was being shown. gentlemyes, there are 16 then this one. you re watching the movie, how many minutes were you in before you noticed something wrong? we were 15 minutes in and there was a chase fire where there was gunfire on screen. right then out of nowhere on the right side we hear a very distinct pop pop pop pop. and my w
prime suspect, this is manuel accosta was stopped by border agents as he was crossing the border and the report says that they found high capacity drum magazine loaded with 74 rounds and an a.k. type weapon inside his truck. they ran a check and found out he was already under investigation for firearm trafficking. so he s in jail right now, right? no, no, they stopped his truck in 2010. this was like two years ago. so he s been in jail for two years, right? no, they stopped him and looked into his background and saw the note, something about money to a killer or something like that. so he s definitely in jail. no! instead of taking him into jail, they contacted the special agent by the name of hope mccallister. then he s in solitary. hope mccallister said, listen, we d like you to help us. so how about if we let you go and you contact us again, extraordinarily he said ok, sure, i ll do that. she wrote her contact information on a $10 bill. gave it to him.