Reasons that i talked to congressman cleaver, because hes out there making sure that where can i send donations coming in toward this reward. I pointed him toward crimestoppers. Those things are remarkable. They really are. And im thankful again that we dont have a situation to where we are looking on an investigation regarding a homicide and that these officers will recover, but yet it does express the support that the community has. Please understand the amount of folks that are involved in expressing their First Amendment rights who have contacted me and said hey, listen what happened to those officers was wrong and we certainly support the Police Department and Law Enforcement because if we dont have you, then we have no sense of security and we have no ability to do what were doing. So thats critical. I certainly appreciate that. The detectives are looking into this investigation around the clock. They will not rest until we get to the point of where we have a conclusion regarding this investigation. As you know there is substantial reward money out there right now, and thats something that we hope can further the investigation. I would certainly hope that that would happen. I would like to take any questions that you guys have. Maam . Im wolf blitzer. We are listening to a News Conference the st. Louis county police chief, jon belmar just made an opening statement. He is now answering reporters questions. Lets go back. Responsible for you interrogating them. We interviewed them is what we did. Without going into a whole lot on that because again, i appreciate their cooperation and i wouldnt want to do anything to compromise them but as you might imagine, there is all sorts of information that comes in regarding an investigation, especially of this magnitude, and when that happens, we have the obligation to follow up on those on those statements made to us on those clues, on those facts and circumstances, that would lead different people perhaps in two different areas to say hey, i saw this i dont know what this necessarily means, but people speculate on Different Things. It leaves Law Enforcement to it. I would tell you that was a whole lot more without getting into a whole lot of details that i think are very inappropriate to share with anybody else at this time since these leads are going away that we felt like at that point in time that that was a very good path for us to take as far as the investigation. You also have to understand with leads, if you dont have the ability to take a look at those things and ask those questions and talk to those folks and solicit their helping us with that then we never understand if we have done everything on that investigation that we possibly can. So i hope you appreciate that. But you really have to make sure you never have to go back and look at leads again i think is what im trying to tell you. I appreciate that. You know you see the officers on top of the roof looking in that vent. They would have preferred not to do that but when they got up in the attic there was not a way for them to get back to a certain point. Those things happen and they probably look extraordinary to other people but those are part of what we do. Sir . Reporter can you share what you learned about the shell casings . I cant share any evidence regarding any detail of any information regarding any evidence we may or may not have. Reporter no gun . You didnt find a gun . Maam . Reporter its been more than one day now since the officers were shot. Is there a critical point after which it becomes [ inaudible ] to find the suspect . Yes, but were not there yet. We really arent. Its hard to figure out exactly if its one day or two days or one week or whatever it is beyond that. Its really when you begin to get the absence of credible information that is coming forward in our investigation, where you kind of need to stop regroup and figure out where you are. We are not at that point yet, however. I still think we have the ability, in fact we are having the ability to still track down certain leads and again, even if they are not positive leads, at least we know we are not going to go in that direction any further. Reporter is it suspect or suspects . Good question. We dont know yet. I cant say with any sort of conviction on whether i have a nine millimeter or. 22 or. 40 caliber or. 45 or whatever at this point. These are things the detectives are taking a look at. Those are things that might make a difference in the investigation. But we are going to kind of go from there and see. Sir . Reporter we didnt see many officers in riot gear last night. Is that a calculated risk . Can you talk about your strategy there . I would tell you that probably there is a whole lot of calculated risk in Law Enforcement, no matter what were doing. But yes, we are trying to obviously always portray the best possible image and stance that we can, but its a very important responsibility of the police chief to make sure that my officers know that they have the equipment they have to have to keep themselves safe. I would tell you that the absence of riot gear and Different Things like that you know i think it would be a very good question for one of our officers to say hey, what does it feel like tonight, 24 hours after a shooting or so to be in a position of where here i am standing on the street and i dont have a lot of cover, its dark, i cant really see whats going to happen. I commend those brave men and women who are out there doing that. But we didnt have a riot last night, either. So from time to time riot equipment is not necessarily ballistic equipment, its riot equipment. So at times that equipment is we have it for certain different reasons. Reporter what are they telling you about what its like to stand out there at night . Thats interesting because i went up with deputy chief cox and some other commanders to the command post and visited with my officers because i want to make sure they have smiles on their faces, not frowns on their faces. I want to take the pulse of what their attitude is out there, how do i expect them to perform that evening. I found the officers both from the Missouri StateHighway Patrol and the st. Louis county officers they were doing fine emotionally. They were good to go. There wasnt a sentiment of anger or frustration or anything like that. These guys understand that they are going to move forward and do their jobs. I will be back up there tonight talking with my officers making sure that they are okay and they are where they need to be mentally. I assure you they are squared away. Its a situation to where we have been through a whole lot since august. So these officers are salty and experienced when it comes to that. Reporter chief, is there any indication that the suspect or suspects were tied to the protest group or had been in protests or anything . I honestly cant tell you for sure at this point. We really dont know that. So its kind of really hard to speculate what kind of nexus may or may not have existed regarding the shooters and any individuals who would have been out there, you know, for whatever reason. Its very difficult to know that. I wouldnt be able to say for sure at this point i know these people didnt do it because i dont know who did it at this point. So it doesnt seem to be a coincidence that it happened there. Thats interesting. Thats one thing. But beyond that its very hard to speculate at this point. I got one over here. Go ahead. Reporter based on the investigation so far, do you have a better sense of where the shots came from and do you have any images of the shooter from Surveillance Video or protester video, anything like that . You know we poured through our images last night before the day watch detectives went home. We actually arrived about midnight you know. But they wanted to make sure they had those things looked at. I can only tell you at this point without prejudicing the investigation that we have reviewed all of those things and we are certainly looking at them to find out if there is anything that would give us any sort of an indication on who might be responsible for this. Reporter do you know the location of the shooter . We have a pretty good idea maybe, on this. But i have even talked to Community Leaders as recently as the last couple hours that have been down there and said you know whats your thoughts on this and Different Things. I think we have a pretty good idea on the investigation. Im not going to pinpoint that area. But i think we have a pretty good general idea of where we think the shots came from. All right. Thats the st. Louis county police chief jon belmar answering reporters questions, saying they have got some leads but clearly, the suspect or suspects the shooter or shooters, he did use the word shooters are still on the loose right now. So this mystery continues. This is a massive, massive manhunt under way in ferguson st. Louis county. Indeed around the country right now. For a shooter or shooters who shot and presumably tried to kill two Police Officers those Police Officers out of the hospital. They seem to be okay but they suffered very severe wounds. Jason carroll is on the ground for us in ferguson. You have been covering this from the very beginning. It looks like the mystery is by no means been solved. They have some clues but they dont know who these shooters are. Reporter not yet. As you heard from chief belmar they are following up on many leads. They have questioned several people according to what investigators are telling us but the bottom line is still no one in custody at this point. One interesting point that he brought up there in the press conference he really stressed the point of having to follow up on every lead in a case as serious and as crucial as this one, you simply have to. He said quote, its our obligation. Perhaps that explains why we saw what we did yesterday, when we got the report that three people were brought in for questioning. As you know we spoke to all three of those people once they were released. One of them was actually out here she had participated as part of the demonstration like so many people did, and when the shooting happened she sped off just to get away. But that raised the interest of police when they saw this woman and three other men get inside this car and speed away. That was one of the leads that they followed up on a lead that brought them nowhere. So at this point, they have questioned several people but you heard from the chief there, at this point, still no one in custody. Yeah. They have not identified anyone there are no suspects no names, no pictures have been released at least so far. Jason, stand by. Tom fuentes, our Law Enforcement analyst, former assistant director of the fbi, hes in ferguson. You were listening very closely to what the police chief had to say. What jumped out at you, tom . Well i think just the fact that it reminded me when he talked about going to the home and taking the three people downtown for questioning, of the d. C. Sniper case when shots were fired, people look up see a car speeding away and call that in as the subject vehicle, and in this case as in many cases, its just people who heard the shots and are fleeing for their own safety. So i think that he explained that very well but thats why the tactical operation took place at that house. Tell our viewers where you are standing right now, because the assumption is the shooter or shooters the police chief did use the phrase shooters the word shooters meaning plural were about 125 yards or so more than a football field from the Police Headquarters where those two Police Officers were shot and seriously injured. Based on the limited information we have as far as pinpointing where the shooters were we think we are in the approximate location. What i want to point out here is that if you look down this street the cars that are going by on that street would be about the height of people so that if you had the crowd still on the street the protesters still on the street the shooter at this elevation would not have been able to fire a shot over the people hitting the Police Officers in the grass behind. You see the height of the vehicles. That would be about the height of the people. However, we learned today that the protesters were completely moved out of the way so the police had moved them starting at midnight. They moved them into the parking lot here on the left. The parking lot to our right over here. And therefore, the street which was still closed to traffic, would have been wide open for a clear shot from up here on this hill straight down to where the Police Officers the Police Officers were in the grassy area just beyond the wrought iron fence, beyond the lamppost. They were shoulder to shoulder in a line and the two officers in the middle of that line standing next to each other were hit, one in the shoulder one in the cheekbone, in his face. So i think now that also in looking at the other buildings in the area i dont think anybody was on the roof. Witnesses are very adamant that the muzzle flashes were coming from up the street up the hill and not on rooftops nearby or from within the crowd itself. You are now walking to exactly the area where those two Police Officers were in a formation with other Police Officers and those two were shot right . Is that where you are now, tom . Yeah, exactly. To the site here where the grass is and where the camera is thats where the Police Officers were in a line right by this fire hydrant. The reporter from st. Louis post dispatch called us this morning. She was just a few feet over here by the brick walls and she also believed the shots came from up the street. She then watched as paramedics came out of the fire house and more Police Officers came over to assist the wounded Police Officers and rescue them started administering medical care for them to take care of them. That all took place right here in this grassy area beyond here. Tom, i want to remind our viewers you started off as a street cop, but then you joined the fbi, you worked your way up to become assistant director of the fbi. What youre doing right now, trying to recreate what happened thats what you used to do for a living when you worked at the fbi, right . Are you looking for evidence if you will that could back up a theory. Yeah i used to be a real agent. I just play one now on television. You are always a real agent. Once an fbi agent, always an fbi agent. But you still believe the Police Believe it was a pistol it wasnt some sort of modified rifle, because from 125 yards, for someone to use a hand gun and be that precise, aim for Police Officers hit one in the face one in the shoulder you have to be an expert marksman. Yeah and they are very adamant about that. They are not saying well it might have been a rifle, it might have been a different type of gun. They are saying that the cartridges or casings they found up the hill they believe were involved in the shooting and that they were fired out of a pistol. The way that search was conducted, by the way, looking back up this street the reporters told us that the police were shoulder to shoulder curb to curb each with a flashlight slowly meticulously going up this hill to look for those casings, to look for any evidence or debris then were able to find the shell casings up on the hill. The police do not want to provide any more detail than that as to the caliber of the casings or how many or exactly where they were but they still insist that they think they were fired from a hand gun. What does it say to you, tom, that the police we just heard the st. Louis county police chief, he didnt release a name or picture, no suspects no most wanted no all out manhunt for a specific individual or individuals. What does that say to you . Well they would have their reasons for how much information they are releasing and at what point they are going to go ahead and tell the public this is who we are looking for. I think it might be that they just dont have a Strong Enough information yet and they want to wait until they do before they release names or descriptions or photographs of suspects. Tom i want you to stand by. Tom fuentes, our Law Enforcement analyst, former assistant director of the fbi is in ferguson. Hes recreating, trying to make all of us better appreciate what was going on. Lets get some reaction. Joining us now the president and ceo of the naacp, Cornell William brooks. Thanks once again for joining us. I just want you to stay put for a second. You absorbed what the police chief said you heard tom fuentes, you heard jason car roll carroll. We have some issues to discuss. I want to take a quick break. Cnn has also spoken to the mayor of ferguson. He is still refusing to step down, saying hes not going anywhere. More of that plus the head of the naacp when we come back. E real question that needs to be asked is what is it that we can do that is impactful . 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