mother-in-law among the victims? she was not. i m sorry? was he fired? we know he was released from the army. and we d have to refer to the air force on that. it was the air force. where was the self-inflicted gunshot wound? turkey, the head. thank you. there have been unconfirmed reports that the suspect may have taken a hostage in the car. it s been floating around cnn and other outlets. any truth to that? that is not confirmed. mentioned. apparently he thought the shooter might have attended the same church. not true? i m not aware of the shooter attending this church. he had family members that attended. his spouse attended this church. i m sorry, commander, did you say that the grandmother-in-law was not a victim? oh, the grandmother-in-law?
we re not aware of that at this time. earlier you told us the suspect had called his father. you expand on that conversation a little bit, tells us if the family has been cooperative, if you re interviewing them?
no sign that moore is going to back down from these allegations, right? reporter: the event that he spoke at today was a full thrown rejection of this allegation. he painted it and rail on the support as a liberal attempt to bring down his campaign that s spearheaded by the washington post and rejected any notion and accusations of sexual misconduct and he said it is absolutely unbelievable that these allegations are now coming to light just weeks before the special election is due to be held in december and almost 40 years after the fact. take a listen. to be attacked of allegations of sexual misconduct contradicts my entire career in law. i want to make it clear to the media present and the people present that i have not provided alcohol beverages, beer or anything else to a minor. i have not been guilty of sexual misconduct with anyone. these allegations came only four and a half weeks before the general election on december 12th. why now? reporter: why now? the qu
they have looked at that video. they have not talked a great deal about it. they also say the suspect did not have a license to carry the three firearms that were recovered. also some new elements to the timeline. of the shooting. authorities say that the suspect was, in fact, shot during a fire fight with the good samaritan, a neighbor who had heard the shooting. i talked to him a short time ago. they say the suspect also talked to his father by cell phone after he had been shot, while he was driving away. authorities also revising the age of the youngest victim and the oldest victim. a 5-year-old did die during the shooting, officials now say an 18-month-old died as well. the oldest victim, 77 years old. we start this hour with reports from here on the ground in texas and also at the justice department. pete williams is standing by for us in washington with the latest on the suspect. pete, there s been a lot of focus on this guy s connection to the church behind me, his con
a terrible act. an act of unthinkable tragedy. so many of the victims children. the sheriff here says more than ten of those killed were children. the victims range in age from 5 to 72 years old. one of those killed was the pastor s 14-year-old daughter. the pastor s wife says most of our congregation is gone. we have many questions about the killer himself. why was he allowed to buy a gun? he was discharged for bad conduct from the air force. he served time for domestic abuse. he was denied a gun permit in the state of texas, yet still was able to buy the ruger assault-style weapon that he used to carry out this horrific killing. want to bring in cnn s brian todd from a different vantage point here at this church for what we re learning this morning. brian? john, some new information that we re learning this morning about the shooter, according to the sheriff of wilson county, joe tackitt, the shooter had two weapons on him when he went into this church yesterday. he had a
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