a new perspective a voice we haven t yet heard from someone who met the shooter at a hotel in washington last week. her name is vanita bell. she ran into the gunman in a lobby twice and gave him her phone number in case he had trouble getting around the city. we talked for about 15 minutes. we talked about southern culture. we talked about the fact that we were both there. he asked me how long i would be there. i said overnight. an he said that he would be there for awhile. did he tell you how long? yeah. i asked him. i said awhile? i said, awhile? he said yes, i ll be here for quite sometime. i said how long? he said for a couple of weeks. so you met him again the next day. i ran into him again on wednesday. and his countenance was markedly different on wednesday. how so? he was very hurried. he said that he was extremely tired. he said, i m tired. i m exhausted. i got to go. i got to go. i m going to take my food up to the room.