this stairwell. and he seen all that and he came over offered me help. reporter: how do you reconcile that with a guy who drives to texas and shoots people? oh, it s easy. everybody has a good side to them. if you see somebody hurting like that you re going to help them. you know i think he went to texas to shoot people for a reason. reporter: the reason appeared to be inspired by isis. on simpson s twitter feed he wrote the bro with me and myself have given bay ah to muminen. but the first clues date back to that 2011 arrest. talking to an fbi informant over years, court records show simpson wanted to go to somalia to fight. recorded on wire taps saying if you get shot or you get killed it s heaven straightaway. heaven that s what we are here for so why not take that route?
have given bay ah to muminen. a pseudonym for the leader of isis. his last tweet before the texas attack. but the first clues date back to that 2011 arrest. talking to an fbi informant over years, court records show simpson wanted to go to somalia to fight. recorded on wire taps saying if you get shot or you get killed, it s heaven straightaway. heaven, that s what we are here for so why not take that route? you try to make us become slaves to man? no, we slave to allah. we re going to fight you to the death. attorney christina sitton defended simpson when the fbi arrested him. there are lots of questions now about whether he s someone who may have fallen through the cracks. do you look back on the case and wonder the same thing? no, i don t. he was on probation for three years. he didn t have any violations. he didn t have any problems that i was aware of. i don t feel like he was ever a danger or ever someone that was going to be harmful. perhaps he just got angry and did a reall
evidence from the suspects apartment, and they are hoping to piece together a timeline of the plot and neighbors in the apartment complex saw nothing outwardly alarming from the two roommates except one of the men put his car up for sale. aerial whitlock exchanged texts with simpson. you don t think maybe he is going to go and plot something and you are giving him the money to go and plot something. reporter: but he changed his mind instead driving it to texas. and simpson tweeted a message before the attack. talking to an fbi informant over years, court records so simpson wanted to go to somalia to fight, and he said if you get shot or killed it s heaven straightaway heaven it s what we here for so why not take that