Surveillance video showed alexis moved deliberately down the hallway, checking door ways, hunting for people to shoot. Within five minutes, legacy moved to the third floor. He carefully exited a stairwell use, protected positions like a trained sniper looking for new targets. As he moved toward them are a small group of people at the end of the hallway appeared to be scrambling for safety. In releasing the pictures today, f. B. I. Assistant director Valerie Parlave said the evidence showed alexis acted alone and had planned his assault as a suicide mission. There are indicator indicatot alexis was prepared to die during the attack and that he accepted death as the inevitable consequence of his actions. Parlave said there is no evidence alexis ever shared his plans with family, coworkers or friends but he left behind numerous clues that spoke to motives. His shotgun carried four scrawled messages. On the right side and barrel were the etched phrases, not what you all say. And end to the
Surveillance video showed alexis moved deliberately down the hallway, checking door ways, hunting for people to shoot. Within five minutes, legacy moved to the third floor. He carefully exited a stairwell use, protected positions like a trained sniper looking for new targets. As he moved toward them are a small group of people at the end of the hallway appeared to be scrambling for safety. In releasing the pictures today, f. B. I. Assistant director Valerie Parlave said the evidence showed alexis acted alone and had planned his assault as a suicide mission. There are indicator indicatot alexis was prepared to die during the attack and that he accepted death as the inevitable consequence of his actions. Parlave said there is no evidence alexis ever shared his plans with family, coworkers or friends but he left behind numerous clues that spoke to motives. His shotgun carried four scrawled messages. On the right side and barrel were the etched phrases, not what you all say. And end to the
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Every time there is a mass shooting, we ask the same question why . Tonight, we have a better idea of why aaron alexis opened fire at the Washington Navy yard last week. He killed 12 people before he died in a shootout with police. Among the victims was 63year old cathleen guard, and, at her funeral yesterday, the navy presented her family with a flag. The f. B. I. Said today that alexis was driven by the delusional belief that he was being controlled or influenced by electromagnetic waves beamed into his body. Bob orr has more about that and the pictures that the bureau released today. Reporter it was 8 15 on the morning of september 16 when aaron alexis appeared on the fourth floor of Navy Yard Building 197, prepared to launch his attack. Dressed in dark clothing, alexis was wearing two i. D. Badges and carrying a sawedoff shotgun. Surveillance video shows alexis moved deliberately down the hallway, checking doorway