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How does that connect to their ability to get a gun? that is something that we still dont know in terms of this horrible, horrible tragedy. that should be addressed. >> the guy spends a year, jeffrey, in a military prison for abusing his wife and hitting a little child, he gets out and then over the next four years he can buy four weapons, including an assault-type weapon, without any problems. >> well, i think, you know, dana really started to say just this. this is the position of the republic...

Plaza repaired the damage after a man dressed in black shot off rounds from an assault-type weapon at closing time. the body of 20-year-old richard shoop was found inside, an apparent suicide. all friends had to say is that he had become paranoid as of a little. now to an apparent suicide in dramatic fashion. a man plunging 500 feet to his death in the middle of a helicopter ride. the pilot said he was giving the man a tour over newport beach, california, when suddenly he opened the chopper do...

Plaza repaired the damage after a man dressed in black shot off rounds from an assault-type weapon at closing time. the body of 20-year-old richard shouldn shoop was found inside, an apparent suicide. all friends had to say is that he had become paranoid as of a little. now to an apparent suicide in dramatic fashion. a man plunging 500 feet to his death in the middle of a helicopter ride. the pilot said he was giving the man a tour over newport beach, california, when suddenly he opened the ch...

Joining me on the phone, bill bratton, the former new york and l.a. police official. bill, lets talk about what we just heard from clint and get your take on what might be going on inside that building, that either the shooter has barricaded himself inside a room or office, he could be trapped in a stairwell. in either case you would think there would be negotiators who are working this situation right now. >> thats right. as soon as this began to occur that he would have got a lockdown shelter ...

Gunman, to try to certainly contain that one or more gunman within -- in this case it appears that all of this activity is occurring within this one building. ive heard it described as the riverside building or building 197 there was earlier information. as you might understand, everything is very preliminary at this time in terms of the facts, the information that were getting. ive heard within the last five minutes ten shot and then maybe as many as 12 shot. youve already heard one suspect des...

>> its a horrible thing to go through. joe, im glad youre okay. thank you very much for talking to us. >> absolutely. my pleasure. thank you. >> because this is such a fast-moving story, i want to check in for the latest. miguel, so can you again for viewers who are just joining us, walk us through what we know. >> reporter: yeah. 11:55 at a house in santa monica, 11:55 pacific time, two people shot and killed in the house. from what we understand from witnesses and police sources, the house was...

Any gun holes or pullet holes and didnt realize it. yeah, i wasnt hurt. >> its a horrible thing to go through. joe, im glad youre okay. th thank you very much for talking to us. >> absolutely. my pleasure. thank you. >> because this is such a fast-moving story, i want to check in for the latest. miguel, so can you again for viewers who are just joining us, walk us through what we know. >> reporter: yeah. 11:55 at a house in santa monica, 11:55 pacific time, two people shot and killed in the hous...

It wasnt for another 15 or 20 minutes afterwards until i looked around to see if i had any gun holes or bullet holes and didnt realize it. but yeah, i was not hurt. >> well, its a horrible thing to go through. im glad youre okay. thank you so much for talking to us. >> absolutely. my pleasure. thank you. >> because this is such a fast-moving story, i want to check back in with miguel marquez with the latest. miguel, can you just again for viewers who are just joining us, just walk us through wha...

Involved. from every witness i talked to, the only thing they saw was a long gun. something that looked like an assault-type weapon. one person identified it as an ar-15. as always in these cases, there is a lot of confusion, but clearly, whoever was there, whether one or two people, they were dressed in black. one witness did say they saw somebody down and they werent moving at all and they were in very bad shape, whoever they were. so it is possible that that was the shooter himself, wolf? >> ...

He jumped back in the car and went on the left. took off. >> cnns miguel marques is joining us on the phone right now. hes on the scene right now with the very latest. miguel, what else are you hearing? >> we do understand that the shooter is in custody. its not clear whether one of the -- the person who was killed was, in fact, the shooter. i have several witnesses who say they were in the library when they heard one shot. it was a person dressed all in black. they may have been wearing a prote...