veronica weiss was held at westlake high school. she graduated last year. her brother is trying to make sense of it all. you can t analyze look in this guy s mind or you ll go crazy. he already took my sister s life. he s gone. it is good there is immediate closure. three of the 13 victims from friday s attack are still in the hospital. as police continue their investigation, there s still that burning question, could the killer have been stopped in the minutes leading up to friday s deadly killing spree? abc s clayton sandell continues our coverage. amazing grace students must now say final good-byes to katherine cooper, a painter about to graduate with a degree in art history. veronika weiss was just ending her first year of college. cheng hong studying computer engineering along with george chen worked as a ymca counselor and weihan wang who went by david. he loved playing basketball. christopher michael-martinez planned to go to law school. in sad hindsight, police, famil
this young man in california had no criminal history. he had never explicitly threatened anyone and he had never been committed to a mental institution yet he had been treated for psychiatric problems since he was 8 years old. that means it was perfectly legal for him to own a firearm. kind of insane. we ll see what happens from here. sandy phillips, thank you so much for joining me this morning. i appreciate it. carol, thank you for having me on. i appreciate it. any time. what more could have been done to stop this attack? family, mental health experts all raised red flags and this young man met with law enforcement but managed to kill six people. at the bottom of the hour i ll talk to a retired law enforcement agent about stopping something like this from happening again. are you ready grandma? just a second, sweetie.
20-year-old cheng hong and 19-year-old george chen found dead with multiple stab wounds inside the gunman s isla vista apartment along with 20-year-old weihan wang. the three men, students at the university of california santa barbara were, police say, rodger s first victims before taking off in his black bmw to this sorority house. i saw a gunshot wound to her abdomen and her side and one to her head. reporter: this is where police say he shot 22-year-old katherine cooper and 19-year-old veronika weiss killed right in the front yard. less than two blocks away, rodger opens fire again at a deli mart killing 20-year-old student christopher martinez. surveillance shows customers diving and scrambling for cover as the bullets flew.
all of the dead were students at the santa barbara university. he stabbed to death his two roommates, george chen a and cheng yuan hong along with weihan wang. katherine cooper and remember von veronika weiss and christopher martinez who was at a deli. his father spoke with kyung lah and she s joining us now. kyung, the only way you can describe how it is heartbreaking to hear what this man says. reporter: it s unimaginable. he says he s acutely aware that there is only a brief period of time that people are going to care about what he says. he says he s going to take advantage of it. he wants people to know he s not
claypool, a season ticket holder. thank you for being with me on this memorial day. brian, we know donald sterling turned over the sale of the team to his wife. does that mean she can sit down with steve ballmer and negotiate a sale? happy memorial day, by the way, carol. how ironic that on memorial day, on a day where our veterans have fought for equality in our country and fought for freedom in our country that we re talking about a man who wants nothing to do, and a woman who really wants nothing to do with equality in our country. getting back to your question, shelly sterling can talk to whoever she wants to try to negotiate a sale of the team. at the end of the day, carol, she s in the going to have any interest in the clippers, because in 2005, she signed the same agreement that donald sterling signed that says that neither one of them can transfer their 50% ownership in the l.a.