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Investigators are serging a home of a gunman, and questioning his wife. As we learn he was in the process of being diagnosed with post Traumatic Stress disorder. The soldier saw psychiatrists last month, but didnt show signs of being a threat to anyone. Now the gunman killed three people before taking his own life. 16 oh people were also wounded. Injuriesthose injuries are in Critical Condition, but they are expected to survive. Heidi joe castro joins us now, heidi, what do we expect to hear from authorities at todays news conference. This conference should take off any moment. Until that is confirmed the command is only alleged. He is the alleged shooter, what we do know is more of his background. He is a 34yearold Army Specialist who join add Puerto Rica ....
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on lopez s mental state. he was troubled and on medication and had sewn a psychiatrist and according to friends in puerto rico dopely affected by the death of his mother last november and the army was slow to give him time off to takened her funeral. they are looking into the claims and digging deeper in the shooter s history. we have strong evidence that he had a medical history that indicates unstable conditions and gone through all of the records to insure that that is correct. we believe that to be a fundmental line. we have learned that lopez bought the smith & wesson handgun at the same store in i can lean where nadal hasan bought his powerful handgun. lopez bought his gun on march 1st. and posted chilling facebook message and including wordsthin take me. we hear tales was heroism. fergus onwas holding a dorclosed that would not lock and behind the dorwas many more soldiers and fergus onheld it closed so lopez couldn t get through the door but he lost his life ....
banderas in for jenna lee. jon: welcome, julie. the report is that ivan lopez argued with other soldiers before going on that killing spree, killing three people and injuring 16, some seriously. some say angry words might have set him off. they re primarily focusing on the soldier s mental hood. rick leventhal is live in fort hood. what is the latest there, rick? reporter: jon, it seems clear specialist lopez was deeply troubled. he sought psychiatric help and was on medication. the question is, were warning signs missed? as you mentioned there is pretty compelling evidence according to the army there was some sort of a verbal altercation between lopez and one or more soldiers just before the shooting started. the focus of the army has been and is now on lopez s mental health, whether or not the mental health was motive for this shooting. we heard from friends in puerto rico, that lopez was deeply troubled by the death of his mother in november and angry with the army ....