custody at lake forest, illinois, after a brief pursuit earlier. police also recovering a high powered rifle, who say believed to be the weapon he was at the shooting. that is the car that police say crimo was driving. you can see it here on this live picture. this all started approximately, at 10:14 am, central time. the shooter opened fire on the town separate from a rooftop, along that route. and again, police say six people have been killed, and health officials reported that at least two dozen, if not three dozen, were hurt. 25, with gunshot wounds, in that total. let s go straight to shaquille brewster, and as an msnbc correspondent there on the ground for us. and shaq, just the breaking news within the last 15 minutes that they have apprehended that person of interest. what else are we hearing? well, we are likely not gonna have any more updates from local law enforcement until tomorrow. but you are just in the past couple of minutes there, we had that major update,
There is a lot of video from this parade that people were out here celebrating and enjoying before those shots rang out. there is a surveillance video from many of the businesses that were lined up along this street. and then, there s the articles, the strollers, the chairs, the toys that are lined up along this road. so, investigators and authorities have a lot of work to do, but the big headline that we got just over an hour ago is the person of interest, the person you re just looking at on the screen there, not a suspect yet, but that person is now in custody. and shaq, overview in the locations which you know well, being from that area, tell us about the location you are at, which you just described. also, where the person of interest, his childhood home was at, and then, where he was apprehended? well talking about it put his small radius on where this happened. we are in highland park right now, north of chicago, maybe about 45 minutes to an hour, depending on traffic from d
Is assisting in this investigation. they were the ones who sent out that poster. they tweeted out that poster for a gathering more information for this person of interest, after local authorities named him. we do also know that the governor was here. he spoke. he talked about the idea of this being another tragedy. he said, if you re angry about the mass shooting, another mass shooting in america, he said that he s curious about it. you get a sense, this is going to be something that we re gonna hear a lot from, we heard from the president about it, we heard from the vice president, who is actually scheduled to be in the chicago area tomorrow. that trip is still on this point. so we re gonna hear much more about this, as this investigation continues. but the big news in the past couple of minutes here is that the person of interest that was identified, and that we know let local law enforcement on a very active investigation, that person of interest has now been captured. and we will w
After you went through a lot of what was left on line by this person of interest. and one of the questions that comes out throughout all of this is what can they do, when it goes to a person like harry litman, like, what is usable there, and what stands out, based on what you ve seen? that s a really good question, in terms of prosecuting this person. i will say that this person s obsession with death goes back years, mass death and mass murder. you know, the most recent music video he made was about getting shot by the cops, after you know, committing a school shooting. this is a very complicated ideology this man has in support of mass death. he was also on these message boards that were constantly posting videos of beheadings and murder and things like that as well. this was a guy who was extremely tilting to an online
After the shooting, and then, we got the news about an hour ago. and you did feel things start to lift a little bit. some tensions starting to ease. i saw a number of the local law enforcement and this is just an example, they re bringing some floodlights behind me. this is just law enforcement officers there, just give you a sense of what it s going to be done here throughout the night. they have a lot of material to process during this parade scene. we got the news about an hour ago that the person of interest is in custody. even when we got that news, so we ve got a warning, some of the warning according to the chief, that the work is not done. they say it s good news, it s positive news, they re happy they caught this person of interest. but they still have a lot of work to do. you see some of the scenes still behind me, a lot of work, and even as i m reporting, people coming up to the officers behind me, asking when they can retrieve their sirens and when they can go and. richar