nobody in this class was shocked at what happened yesterday. thank you, drew. john, those are the disturbing new details from here. clearly signs that he was a disturbed man. but maybe no one found out quite soon enough. john? so troubling when you hear that fascinating reporting from drew. these concerns raised back in class in june playing out over months. jeanne meserve said the gun was purchased in november. you can only wish somebody had connected the dots to keep the suspect from buying that weapon. we ll be back to you in a minute. when we come back, a congresswoman is shot and all 535 members of the house and senate are asking this question are we safe? [ woman ] you know, as a mom, i worry about my son playing football. which is why i m really excited. because toyota developed this software that can simulate head injuries in an accident and helps make people safer. then they shared this technology with researchers at wake forest to help reduce head injuries on the footba
literally of their lives from one student, jared loughner, who was taking an elementary algebra class this past summer at pima county community college. what the mast instructor says is he literally watched jared loughner just falling apart, becoming more and more mentally disturbed. it began on day one of the class, jessica. june 1, 8:00 a.m. jared loughner came into class and began disrupting the rest of the students. not every class, just the first day of class. and then the rest of the days he was very quiet and just kind of isolated and in his own little world. didn t want to talk to anybody. at one point did you try to get him removed from the class? i did. i tried two times at least. i think on the third attempt he had said something about the constitution like violating his first amendment rights and i think that was the straw that broke the camel s back that
scared of the guy. ben mcgahee said when the name jared loughner came up yesterday, not surprised at all. that s chilling. was there any indication that the teacher sought any mental health treatment. he s a math instructor. he knows that jared loughner was told you couldn t get back to campus unit will you got mental health and he obviously didn t return to class. there were signs perhaps something could have been done. i asked him, what more could the school have done? he wished the school had intervened earlier to get him out of class. there was no violence in the school. just odd behavior, threatening to the other students but not overtly. right. so it s one of those situations. what are you going to do? we ll find out more details perhaps from the school about what they did and whether a psychiatric evaluation did take place. pretty upsetting to know that
caused him to be kicked out of the class. was he just being disruptive to your teaching and the students or did you feel in any way that this guy was becoming a threat? he was a threat. he actually wrote something on the quiz that said mayhem fest and wrote it in big, bold capital letters. mayhem? mayhem fest. and then put three exclamation points, drew random scribblings, like pictures. violent pictures? not really. just random stuff. but the mayhem fest got me concerned. concerned enough to get the school to actually kick loughner out of the class. he had to be physically removed by a campus police officer and dean. that led to a meeting in which loughner was excluded from the campus until and unless he got psychiatric evaluation. the teachers and students were