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>> as mourners gatherings a vigil and praying for the people they lost. cnns ryan young was there. >> reporter: another tragedy in an american city. so many questions about why this shooting happened, but what we do know so far is the details about police officers getting ready to pull over a man in a car. apparently they were pulling him over because of failure of using his signal. that man used a gun to shoot through a back window toward officers. from there, a spree started of gunfire and a p...

Attack took place, how this all began, those key questions, he was driving. police say they pulled him over because he failed to indicate that he was shifting lanes and for a turn signal. they pull him over. he has this rifle aimed through the back window, and as hes rolling away, as the police officers come out of their vehicle to approach his vehicle, hes rolling away and then opens fire on the officers. the fact that he had this weapon so easily accessible and ready, i think thats something t...

Vehicle, the two troopers in that vehicle, as theyre getting out, the police say the suspects car is still driving. its slowly moving. and this driver, the suspect turns his rife through the back window and starts firing at these two officers, hitting one of them. they say its a male driver, so the shooter here is a male. he was the only occupant in the vehicle. that he pointed a rifle toward the rear window of his car and fired several shots towards the police officers and then they say that on...

Had police not encountered him, had police not stopped him. there was concern it seems that he was going to go -- the shooter was going to go into this movie theater. this complex where probably hundreds of people were inside. the fbi there mentioning it. so i do think there are some people on the law enforcement side that do think maybe this was planned. the way this unfolded. the way that the shooter used this rifle, pointed it through the back window of his car as the officers were approachin...

Block, we probably wont learn officially this individuals name until the morning because seems like authorities are still trying to figure out what happened here. i dont think they have a good idea yet, at least where theyre able to release any information publicly about what led up to this. obviously i think thats going to be the key here, what happened, why did the shooter react this way when two troopers pulled him over? what happened? where was he going? and perhaps that is something that au...

Were well ahead of one and a half mass shootings every day. what i think the police are looking at and the fbi and atf that will all be there is this individual was evidently heavily armed. its described as a weapon. we know he fired a lot of rounds of ammunition, so the question is was he on the way to do something else, was this a routine traffic stop, was there any additional information law enforcement had, because we know as the dps, the state troopers pulled the shooter over, he kept his v...

Motive. well expect an update later on today. garrett haake is with us from odessa, texas. >> reporter: yeah. im standing in that movie theater parking lot. you can see the mail truck the suspect hijacked that ended this scene here and this drama. the last place we know shoot og cured. no word from the police or city about who the suspect is or his motive. we have only the barest details about the suspect or the shooter in this case. white male in his 30s. matches the profile of so many other sh...

>> the injury that you saw, was it in the body, on the arms? >> it was on his lower abdomen. >> when you drove past the suspect, the windows were not open, is what you were saying? or you couldnt see? >> to be honest with you, i just saw his back window. we were just trying to not get hit. >> of course. were you able to hear any gunshots as you were driving? >> whenever he was hitting us, my husband heard it. i was freaking out, i didnt know what was going on, he was yelling. hes the one who hea...

Suspect himself. police havent released his name if they know it. it started with a traffic stop. i hate when i hear people describe it as a routine traffic stop. you hear from police officers there is no such thing. that was the case here. he fired his gun out of the back window at officers. and we see this spree 20 miles down the highway, to odessa here. the scene ended in a mail truck. you see the shooting finally ending here where the suspect was killed. as for the political implications, yo...

Him or what. >> the injury that you saw, was it in the body, on the arms? >> it was on his lower abdomen. >> when you drove past the suspect, the windows were not open, is what you were saying? or you couldnt see? >> to be honest with you, i just saw his back window. we were just trying to not get hit. >> of course. were you able to hear any gunshots as you were driving? >> whenever he was hitting us, my husband heard it. i was freaking out, i didnt know what was going on, he was yelling. hes th...