They still hysterical right now. Cnns Polo Sandoval is live for us in muncie, new york. Youre near the home where this attack happened. What is the reaction . Catch us up. Reporter a lot of questions being asked right now by residents here. The house behind me is where this hanukkah celebration turned to horror for the people who were inside celebrating when the suspect essentially walked in with a knife and began to harm the people inside. We are told at least five people were injured and at least one is still in Critical Condition so we are working to get the latest on that. As for the suspect, our understanding, according to information from investigators, is that he is in custody right now. Authorities are speaking to him, trying to really establish a motive because we should be clear, at this point, they have not officially declared this as a hate crime. However, when you really stop and look at all of the different pieces here, it certainly would suggest that investigates will be
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Show Transcript , INCLUDING NOT WEARING HIS SEATBELT AND NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE. SULA: TOMORROW IS THE DEADLINE FOR THOSE OF YOU WISHING TO APPLY FOR THE CARLEY ANN MCCORD SCHOLARSHIP. THE SCHOLARSHIP HONORS MCCORD WHO DIED IN A PLANE CRASH IN LAFAYETTE IN 2019. CARLEY WAS A SPORTS BROADCAST MEDIA PROFESSIONAL IN RADIO, TELEVISION, AND PROMOTIONS. SHE WORKED WITH US HERE AT WDSU, GUARANTY MEDIA IN BATON ROUGE , AND WITH COX SPORTS. THE SCHOLARSHIP WILL BE AWARDED TO FEMALE STUDENTS STUDYING SPORTS JOURNALISM AT HER ALMA MATER, NORTHWESTERN STATE UNIVER
the plane was headed to atlanta officials say and several of the passengers were going to the college football playoff game between lsu and oklahoma. one of those passengers was carley ann mccord, a sports reporter in new orleans and daughter-in-law of defensive coach steve ensminger. natascha chen has more. saturday morning before 9:30 local time in lafayette, louisiana, people saw a plane fall out of the sky. for the first time, my heart just like wanted to stop and give up and take place and i just feel like it s pain and pain follow family and all that. reporter: this witness described the plane tilted and hitting a post and a couple of vehicles. what is left is a burned out car flipped upside down and pieces of the plane scattered in a field across the parking lot of this post office. it s one of those things like you never could picture in your mind. it was terrifying. and i was outside. i could feel the heat from the flames and i could smell the fuel. reporter: there
reporter: the lone survivor 37-year-old wade bursas, vice president of sales at local data systems, an i.t. company. among the five who died, carley mccord, a 30-year-old sports reporter who worked at wdsu in new orleans. everyone loves a good family football story. reporter: her football family includes her father-in-law steve ensminger, offensive coordinator for louisiana state university. mccord was on her way to see lsu play against oklahoma university in atlanta at the peach bowl. i ve been numb all day. it s hard to do the show, quite honestly. i don t have much to say. yeah. other than there is a lot of people that are going to be hurting today. reporter: those hurting include families of the injured. besides bursas who survived from the plane, one more person on