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Fedex driver who was just dropping off a package at a house on a dead-end road back one evening in january 2022. now, gibson says he was wearing his fedex uniform but he was in a hertz rental van when the pickup truck came behind him blowing the horn. he saw a man with a gun, the pickup truck tried to stop him from getting out and that s when he did hear those shots into his rental van, chased him out of the neighborhood. gibson after the mistrial was declared spoke with cnn and said that, look, it s felt like a lifetime, not a year and a half since that happened. he has faced anxiety and is extremely frustrated with the police. it is definitely a screw up, not the first one they have had with my case and other cases. it s just like due to negligence on their part i feel like i m not going to say it s everything was purposely done but a lot of incompetent in the police department. ....
Senior law enforcement analyst, andrew mccabe, and cnn law enforcement analyst, jonathan wackrow, former senior service agent. let s talk about frank james first. he s in custody. he s charged. about to face a judge. what s your big question now? my big question is the same as everybody. what was his motive here and unfortunately, right now, the motive remains unknown. but i think it s important for everyone to understand with this case that james had a level of premeditation that he put toward this attack. some detailed planning. and what i mean by that, you have to take it a step backward and understand he traveled from wisconsin, over a thousand miles to new york city to launch this attack. he had some level of targeting information that he was going off of. he drove a rental van to the subway system. he selected the subway line that ....
Handgun, three extended magazines, two detonated smoke grenades, two non-detonated smoke grenades and a hatchet at the scene. what does this tell you about the suspect and what would police do, will they be able to get dna evidence off of any of this? this speaks to the testament of the collaborative approach. atf, federal law enforcement authorities and the nypd, local law enforcement authorities. we do not we have not assessed these were stolen weapons. more than likely these weapons were acquired based on a lawful purchase. it s clear this was a person who was looking on atrocities to us as the 8 million residents that resfwlied in new york. fortunately, the nypd use technological innovations and capture an image of this individual entering the subway system eight stops away and exiting as well. coupled with this individual dropping the keys to this rental van. this is significant. and this shows how the ....
Interest. that very van was found among the belongings. cnn s jason carroll is live on the scene in brooklyn. jason, it has been a chaotic 20 hours or so. tell us what the latest is. reporter: well, it s fair to say at this point they are actively looking at a man identified as a person of interest. frank james. 62 years old. investigators say some of the items found here at the scene are connected to james including those keys to that u-haul rental van. u-haul linked. just a quick recap of what happened out here yesterday. the shooter wearing an orange and green construction vest. ....
I m a little skeptical that this attack, the way it all went down. not saying it wasn t. it might have been the target. the commander s got to keep the open mind, that gun s been traced. they have agents on it. they probably already know if it was stolen or who bought it first and they know who rented the van. that s how we solved the 93 world trade center bombing by finding the axel, drive train from the van. tracking it to the rental van and going to get the names of the terrorists. it s a big lead. i think they know who the guy is. i think we ll have him before morning hits. a note of law enforcement optimism there and the nypd has been saying they re going to hold a briefing later tonight with the updates on that. on a day like this, we rely on you. you re busy, we may come back to you in the hour depending on what happens. i want to broaden out because that was the top news and we ll ....