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Will carr joins us live now from l.a. with the latest. hi, will. >> reporter: just a short time ago, authorities laid out their case against merritt, explaining why they say he is the prime suspect. they say that after the shootings started, detectives took bullets from the crime scene to determine exactly what gun they were looking for. so then what they did is went to pawn shops in the area and using ballistics tests, realized one gun matched. >> crime lab test fired the firearm pawned by what...

Relation to the black lives matter movement, an ongoing uprising against police brutality. >> it isnt very far stretched to believe that kind of rhetoric could influence someone. >> reporter: leaders of the movement say calls for police reform cannot be blamed for the senseless murder. >> our mission is to end violence against black people. every 28 hours a black body is killed. >> reporter: as the houston suburb community continues to mourn the loss of their deputy. president obama called gofor...

$80,000 plus another $110,000 online. >> this is what we would want is us looking after his family. i know that he was going off-duty when all of this happened. and he was a man that was a family man. and the only thing on his mind was getting home and being with his family. >> reporter: investigators say ballistics tests linked the shell casing to the crime scene to a handgun found in shannon miles home garage but not much is known about the murder suspect. miles family has not spoken out and o...

You are exactly right, judge. they dont have the support now. i dont want to say that president obama doesnt care about this. i think he does. but we need to be more vocal about these things. like i said from both sides of the aisle, we need to be outraged about what happened to this officer last night, judge. >> all right. now, lets talk about the person that is in custody this shannon miles. >> yeah. >> he is 30 years old. and they say that he has some prior involvement with the law. >> right....

You are exactly right, judge. they dont have the support now. i dont want to say that president obama doesnt care about this. i think he does. but we need to be more vocal about these things. like i said from both sides of the aisle, we need to be outraged about what happened to this officer last night, judge. >> all right. now, lets talk about the person that is in custody this shannon miles. >> yeah. >> he is 30 years old. and they say that he has some prior involvement with the law. >> right....

>> reporter: wolf, two law enforcement officials tell me and my colleague evan perez that a gun recovered from the shooter, vester flanagan, was a glock 9 millimeter pistol. according to officials, he bought the gun in virginia sometime in july and were told he bought this gun legally. he also purchased a second glock pistol. ballistics tests will be conducted to figure out which gun he used. in this suicide note, this rambling suicide note that the person believed to be the gunman sent to abc n...

Defense claims by that time both were already dead. thats according to a forensic pathologist for the defense. do you believe it comes down to 2.6 seconds? or is it bigger than that? >> well who really knows, thats the point. the real question is that there are other charges that could have been filed, that would have involved or implicated the other officers whether it be on a conspiracy theory or on a felony murder theory in the state of ohio. one person being held responsible for the cause of...

But equally, the time frame that he provided of the events of the night in question, very skillfully found a way to explain that in pistorius version of events as opposed to the states version of the events. >> weve still got a long way to go in this trial. weve still got to look at ballistics tests, for example. after the first week, whats your opinion, does either of the prosecution have a stronger case? >> i think after the first week on balance, the defense has had a somewhat stronger week. ...

Daughters today in colorado springs. evan ebel went out in a blaze of gunfire two states away in texas, where ever since investigators have been poring over physical evidence. tonight, they have some answers and they look pretty solid. casey wian joins us. whats the latest in this investigation? >> reporter: well, thats right, anderson. it is probably the most solid piece of evidence that they have uncovered in this investigation. the el paso county, colorado sheriffs department confirming that ...

Front row of my juvenile delinquency class. >> tom clements wife and daughters today in colorado springs. evan ebel went out in a blaze of gunfire two states away in texas, where ever since investigators have been poring over physical evidence. tonight, they have some answers and they look pretty solid. casey wian joins us. whats the latest in this investigation? >> reporter: well, thats right, anderson. it is probably the most solid piece of evidence that they have uncovered in this investigati...