of a share ever s deputy in the u.s. state of texas. the district attorney says deputy darren go forth was shot 15 times. now even though officials say that miles is cooperating with police, they still do not know what his motive was. we re also learning that miles has a history of mental illness and was once found too mentally incompetent to stand trial. here s our ed lavandera with more. reporter: we ve learned that in october of 2012, shannon miles was arrested and criminally charged of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, but i was found mentally incompetent to stand trial and sent to a state mental hospital for six months. this comes after prosecutors detailed in the most excruciating way some of the details of how this murder
he holds political views that are unusual in the black community, the vast majority of african-americans are still democrats, still tend to be more liberal. you have to look far and wide to find ben carsons in there. maybe that s what appeals to the republican electorate this year. we ll see if the numbers hold. it s such a strange political season. you just never know what s going to happen next. still to come in the newsroom, a disturbing history of violence, new details about the man who allegedly shot and killed a tax deputy. and we re about 15 minutes away from the hoping bell in wall street. and the futures are pointing down by about 400 points. we take you live to the new york stock exchange in minutes.
neurosurgeon at johns hopkins who has done a lot of incredible things. there s a lot more evangelicals to like there. they don t like the donald trump is going after all the other candidates, but they like the fact that trump and carson are outsiders. so if you re going to have two outsiders, two very smart men obviously but one man is deeply religious, deeply evangelical, and somebody who these evangelicals have known for years. that s why they re going with ben carson. you re saying ben carson s favorite book really is the bible? it is literally. it s not his own book, and it is the bible, yes. ron, just a last question about ben carson because something else that donald trump and ben carson have in common, they don t have fully formed policies, but voters don t seem to care very much. well, i think patricia s last point is spot on and why you have seen both of them rise in the polls. they want an outsider, someone who is not business as usual. people are sitting around sayin
joined in a prayer walk sunday to the gas station where he was killed. very tragic this had to happen. he was a really good guy. really good officer. there are people in the world that think all cops are bad. it s not true. that s always going to be bad apples in the force but he wasn t one of those. police raised shannon miles accused of killing goforth. they are trying to determine why it happened. it may have been a targeted killing, a war on cops they say. 21 officers have been shot and killed. it is time for the silent majority in this country to support law enforcement. there are a few bad appleings in every profession. that does not mean that there should be open car fair declared on law enforcement. the suspect shannon miles will be arraigned on capitol murder charges. his mother is offering up an
morning. shannon miles is accused of shooting deputy goforth. it s been described as an unprovoked execution-style killing. hundreds gathered in the streets of houston to honor the slain deputy. crowds gathered outside a church and marched a mile and a half to where goforth was killed. he was a ten-year veteran of the sheriff s office. two journalists gunned down on live television last week. 24-year-old reporter alison parker and 27-year-old cameraman adam ward killed by a former colleague. wdbj general manager jeff marks spoke about their good sense of humor and positivity. i want to play softball with adam again. and i want to see alison dance. and i will in the wonderful memories they gave me, they gave us. adam ward s funeral will take place tuesday. alison parker s obituary says a