Aaron On News Today

Watch -- playing the game online with another individual which was a pretty bloody game, of shooting and he spent more time doing that than entertaining his guests and i commented to aaron on that that wow, man, are you in your 30s, dude, you need to let that stuff go. >> we heard the same thing from another of his friends who said that he would play all of these games all day and all night and similar to what we heard about the newtown school shooter and columbine killers that reportedly played...

That would be an alarm for him to find out something like that so i didnt know anything about voices or anything about that, what was going on in his job, because i hadnt heard from him in awhile. so all that must have happened while he was on the job with these contractors, so i hadnt heard from him recently, but i certainly would have -- it would have been a red flag to me as well to hear things like that about aaron, because he never would let on to us here at the happy bowl, these people rea...

What caused aaron alexis to snap. but when you hear of all these incidents, shooting the tires, saying he had blackouts, hearing voices through the wall, saying that somebody was sending vibrations through a microwave, what sort of mental health concerns leap to mind for you? >> well, youre describing symptoms of psychosis, the hearing things through the wall and hearing voices which are called auditory hallucinations, are symptoms of psychotic thinking. psychotic thinking can be due to, in some...

As the nation mourns the innocent victims of yesterdays navy yard shooting, family and friends of the shooter re-evaluate the man they thought they knew. >> i would never have believed this until it happened. >> aaron was a very polite, very friendly man. >> reporter: but with the image of 34-year-old aaron alexis now staring back at us from screens and newspaper covers worldwide, glimpses of his contradictory character are coming into full view. from the outside, he was a veteran of the navy re...

To handle because he was like a friend, a family friend, a brother to me, and so i dont understand what set him off. >> police say that alexis had been hearing voices. you may have just heard deb feyericks report that in rhode island, he was saying that individuals were sending vibrations through his body. did he ever indicate any sort of mental unbalance that he was hearing voices, feeling vibrations, paranoia, anything at all? >> well, sir, that would have had to be something more recent and i...

Thank you so much. as the nation struggles with the aftermath of the massacre carried out by aaron alexis, people closest to him are trying to square his actions with the man they thought they knew. alexis moved from place to place in recent years but we know that he spent a good deal of time in ft. worth, texas. thats where he became friends with michael, who joins us now. thanks for being with us. whats the first thing that went through your mind when you saw alexis face on tv yesterday aftern...