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Utc. thats the university of tennessee at chattanooga. with an engineering degree in 2012. weve had that confirmed. and a lot of his classmates. that he was a really likable, a popular guy. nobody suspected anything like this. >> do you know anything about the blog that had been reported? >> reporter: no i do not. >> i know that you guys also chronicled a little of his time in high school and you spoke to the coach, spoke to some of the fellow wrestlers. what did you learn from that? >> we learn...

Strike another person in the face. >> a dui arrest in april of this year the officer reporting abdulazeez smelled of alcohol and marijuana and had a white powdery substance under his nose. abdulazeez claimed td was crushed caffeine pills. abdulazeez worked at a maginant and wire company after getting an engineering degree from the university of dnstennessee. jor deignen there are no clues that might have turned abdulazeez into a killer. >> it was absolutely nothing that would show me he was upse...

Abdulazeez was going to carry this out. was he inspired or connected to any body in international terrorism. isis was calling for attacks of this kind. in the united states. we havent yet, the fbi hasnt said whether they found indications that he was action on behalf of isis or any body else. but that is certainly the big question now tonight. >> any soon of a motive. going through social media, blog posts trying to find anything this guy may have written. any sign of motive? any sign of what he...

If you look at the house, if you look at the neighborhood that they lived in, they will ehe had an engineering degree. so by all acounts, he was headed somewhere, seemed to be headed somewhere, and then something went wrong. so now the f.b.i. is trying to figure out what exactly that was. >> his high school coach, one of his high school coaches, told drew griffin that he believed he had traveled either to jordan or to yemen and then came back. do you know anything about that? >> well whats inter...

Can fire back. >> harry at this point we dont know a lot about this suspect except to say that we know he was a devout muslim. also that he got a degree in education here in the united states. an engineering degree. how will investigators determine, you know within that time line what led to this point to essentially make him snap? >> right, well they have executed search warrants in his house. they have his telephone records. they have his internet records. if he is going to any jihadi sites on...

Was a jokester and likely just joking. chris, obviously a morbid joke in light of what happened yesterday. >> absolutely. the next part of the story is terrorism task force as well as the fbi. for more on what authorities know about his travels and on loan posts, pamela brown is joining us for that. what do we know? >> this is being investigated. the motive is a mystery. we are told through sources, at the time of the shooting the gunman didnt utter an outward manifestation he was working with a...

Hes a smart kid. he was in high school at the time. i believe he went on from there to get an engineering degree from utc. university of tennessee at chattanooga. >> in the 19 hours since the shooting that is a uniform assessment of that man in his growing up in tennessee. abdulazeez was born in kuwait. had jordanian citizenship. he was a naturalized u.s. citizen. no word on motive. we will keep you up to date. guilty on all counts in the trial of james holmes. the jury rejecting the insanity ...

Coach of mohammod youssuf abdulazeez. what did he tell you? >> his reaction when we learned the name he learned it on the raidy here. his reaction, tears came to his eyes. this kid was just a great all-american kid. this is scott schraeder, mixed martial arts coach. and we just talked to him about an hour ago >> i mean he seemed like the all-american kid. i mean he never, never loud never boisterous never got out of line hard worker you know seemed to enjoy, you know the training. and you know g...

Weapons right now? evan perez says he expects there could be arrests coming soon on that front. if you have someone who has intentions, terrorist intentions, how hard is it for that person to get weapons here in the united states? >> shouldnt be very difficult if hes not on a watch list, he hasnt committed a federal crime. i think the tracing of the weapons to me, my business -- people on the outside in the media focus on events, terrorist attacks. my business when i was at the cia and the fbi i...

Officials there that he had worked there for ten days. the associated press which first reported this story said he had perhaps failed a back ground check. according to first energy that is not the case. they said they simply are saying that he did not meet minimum requirements for ongoing employment and them it was part of an ongoing investigation. now it is under clear exactly what that is. why he would not have met the minimum rimts. we know that he had an engineering degree from the universi...