conversation about guns. take a listen. the before he moved in, one of the stipulations is he had to get a gun safe. and we got a gun safe on the way back from lantana, from move his stuff to our house. he didn t have free access to this gun? no, no. i thought i had the only key to the gun safe. you had no problem with him having a weapon. no. not at all. he followed the rules. followed the rules. followed the rules. they weren t allowed to be out if we weren t home or one of us wasn t home. and he knew that. and so to our knowledge he never had them out. reporter: and now we know that that ar-15 style rifle was used to massacre 17 people in the school that you see behind me. and, jim, we also learned from authorities that he fired 150 rounds. 19 and he had ten rifles. thank you very much. i want to bring in tom fuentes, former assistant director at the fbi. tom, i have to ask you this,
it seems like you had no problem with him having a weapon. that at all. he followed the rules. followed the rules. they weren t allowed to be out if we weren t home or one of us wasn t home. and he knew that. to our knowledge he never had them out. the attorneys say they were not aware of previous police incident reports saying the police had been to the house more than 20 times between 2011 and 2016 to check on multiple outbursts reported by his now deceased mother including one incident where she said he hit her with a plastic vacuum cleaner hose. and this report was filed a year before the sneeds took him in. indicating the agency was aware of the posts on snap chat and cutting both of his articles. the report says he is a
message. how are you doing today? you know, as we keep saying it s hour by hour, day by day. you don t ever get over this type of thing. you really don t. i don t want to open a wound that has barely had time to heal. your message is so important. can you talk to us about what happened to your son? my son was an amazing swimmer. we always joked he would teach fish how to swim. in florida we live on the water and we have the backyard pool which we swim in over and over again throughout the year and we stop swimming around september, the first swim of the year in april, april 13. and we weren t home. our nanny was home with her son who was 18. calder said i can race you.
thanks for joining us. we re so grateful that you are okay. tell us what happened when that tornado came through. what was it like to go through? well, my daughter and i had just gotten home from church. we weren t home 15 minutes, the emergency broadcast came on through the tv telling us that we were in a tornado warning. as usual, you always think well, it s probably just another warning that won t amount to anything. when the hail started, my husband sent me and my 2-year-old grandson and my 18-year-old daughter to the basement, and then he actually stayed upstairs and kept an eye out and saw the tornado actually coming towards the house. tried to get the dogs downstairs. my grandson s mother which is basically my daughter-in-law, got to our house and in the basement within minutes of our house being destroyed on top of us.
ms. bertalan, thank you for your time. redirect? thank you. just a few follow-up questions, ma am. when mr. zimmerman came to you to talk to you about having been victimized by a home invasion, t did you consider that strange? no. were you appreciative of his efforts to help you out? very. tell me about that. we were terrified when this happened. and we came home after we were having car troubles, and we came home and he was just saying that he wanted to make sure we were okay. we weren t home, my sister was. and she didn t answer the door because she was scared because of what had gone on. so i was just appreciative that he was offering his hand and had told me i could spend time with