fire. that subject is deceased. alex woods recorded the end of the rampage on his cell phone camera. there is a shooting going on in odessa, texas. a shooting there. the cop just hit the barrier! get down, get down, get down! get down! stand still! he s shooting him. he s shooting him. he killed him. he killed him. he s shooting him up. he hit the barrier. reporter: authorities are telling me it all started as a traffic violation. authorities with the department public safety saying two of the state trooperers were attempting a traffic stop on instate 20 when the lone okay pan of that vehicle before the car came to a stop grabbed a rifle and aimed
this is cnn breaking news. welcome back, everybody. we are continuing to follow breaking news here in the united states. at least five people are dead and 21 injured after another mass shooting in west texas. the gunman went on a driveby rampage and opening fire from his car and after a traffic stop in midland odessa in texas, and it is about 400 kilometers from the scene of the el paso mass shooting four weeks ago. the attacker is identified a white male in the 30s. he eventually abandoned his vehicle and hijacked a mail truck. he was shot dead outside of a cinema cinema. to other breaking news, hurricane dorian is whipping up wind and surf in the bahamas in the coming hours. more than 70,000 residents and
i will take executive action to reduce gun violence, closing dangerous loopholes in gun sales, cracking down on gun manufacturers and investing in communities impacted by gun violence. keeping in mind, this shooting came just a day before texas put new laws into effect. and here are what some of those laws mean. licensed hand gun owners can now legally carry weapons in places of worship. while schools can no longer prevent licensed gun owners from storing a firearm in a locked vehicle. on a school parking lot. both the weapon and ammunition must be out of plain sight and landlords, now they can t stop residents from lawfully possessing, carrying or storing a firearm on their property. we re also following another major story this day, this big hurricane that is churning in the atlantic. time running out as parts of the bahamas prepare to evacuate. we have the latest on hurricane
officers did approach the vehicle, it was not in park. it was slightly rolling forward, as it has been reported. and the shooter actually took rifle and was shooting out the rear of the window. to me, this seems like it was premeditated in most instances. tink about how difficult it would be to move a long barreled weapon throughout a vehicle. the confined of that space and then to fire. these officers were put into a situation of disadvantage right from the very beginning. yeah. sometimes it is easy to work out the motive. we still don t know why a gunman did the shooting in las vegas. where do you put this investigation?
where four weeks ago, less than 300 miles away, a gunman opened fire at an el paso walmart killing people. author of mass shootings, six steps to survival. thank you for meeting with us. glad to be here. it seems americans are finding new places and new inventive ways to kill each other with firearms. were you surprised when you heard these details, how it made out? it is not a typical mass shooting. certainly not what we ve become accustomed to. no. not at all. a suspect goes in. wanting to get a high body count. this is not your shooting where it happened in a school or a movie theater. a confined area where the suspect is really there to kill people. i think as the facts come out over the next couple hours and the next couple of days, we ll learn a lot about this shooter.