asking for help and he was arrested minutes later. adrian, there are now six deaths in this horrible incident. what more do you know about the victims and their families? ana, we will start with the sparks family. we know jackson sparks, the child who is now deceased, underwent brain surgery on sunday. on a gofundme page, the family noted that jackson would need a miracle. they also asked for prayers for jackson s older brother, tucker. he s 12 years old and tucker had a brain fracture. he is expected to be released from the hospital later this week. there are six crosses. each cross holds a heart. on those hearts people from the community have been showing up writing messages. we were here when a 13-year-old kneeled down by the cross
we re the people. taking a stand. got all them penople dying in afghanistan. all them kids being raped. just let the taliban run right through. he also showed the inside of his truck filled with loose change he claimed would be loose shrapnel. he warned if police attempted to shoot him to end the standoff, his truck would explode. a later assessment of the truck s contents revealed there was no bomb but what police described as bomb-making materials. throughout the ordeal capitol police used inventive ways to attempt to quell the situation. we tried to negotiate with mr. rosenberry. we tried to do that with a white board writing messages back and forth. we used a robot to get a telephone down to him but he would not use the telephone. reporter: eventually five
we know that he did have a cell phone with him and that for a time today he was actually broadcasting live on facebook talking about his concerns, his anti-government rhetoric, according to people that have seen this. that feed has been taken down now by facebook. but for a time, that was one of the complicating factors of negotiating with him. second is that he was writing messages to the police on a dry erase board that was in his vehicle. one of the wipe boards you write on with a special marker, wipe it off and start over. that made it difficult, too. our understanding is that the authorities are now going to send in a robot with telephone. he has his own, it will be a dedicated one they can talk to directly to move this along. there are negotiators, bomb technicians from the fbi, bomb techs from atf, capitol police,
and over the course of time we tried to negotiate with mr. rosen barry and it started doing that with a whiteboard, writing messages back and forth. we used a robot to get a telephone down to him but he would not use the telephone. but shortly after we had delivered the telephone, he got out of the vehicle and surrendered and the tactical units that were closed by took him into custody without incident. i m happy to answer any questions that you might have. were there any explosives in the vehicle and it do you the motive? we don t know if there are any explosives in the vehicle, that s still an active scene and while mr. rosen barry has been taken into custody and it s been removed from the scene we still have to search the vehicle and render the vehicle safe so we don t know as of yet.
were. it is not immediately clear if there was a single motivation. we are still working through that within here at cnn. let me go directly to the sound bite we just heard from the now-capitol police chief tom manger, just a couple of weeks on the job. here is what he had to say about this incident, alisyn and victor. again, thank you for your patience. just moments ago floyd roy rosenberry from grover, north carolina, was taken into custody wo without incident. as we talked about earlier, mr. rm mr. rosenberry parked a trump and was sitting in front of the library of congress for several hours, he advised he had explosives. over the course of time we tried to negotiate with m mr. rosenberry. we first started doing that with a white board, writing messages back and forth. we used a robot to get a telephone down to him, but he would not use the telephone.