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Eastern when two texas department department of public safety troopers attempted to stop a vehicle on interstate 20 westbound and several shots were fire towards the trooper. and so without too few details burk was he ready for the confrontation or a spur of the moment thing? >> well, yeah. i think that those are excellent questions. why the police dont say the word routine. you didnt hear them say routine traffic stop. they were conducting a traffic stop. that could mean something very signific...

Routine traffic stop, to emphasize how surprised and how unexpected this was. but they dont use the term routine. and that, to me, leads me to believe that he was being stopped for a particular reason that may have been part of this entire thing. maybe not in the way they expected. >> and at this point, i mentioned this at the top of the broadcast, between mid land and odessa, theres i-20, and theres quite a scene here that investigators will have to go back and comb through to speak to witnesse...

So this notion that if we just arm more people america will be safer is just belied by the facts. if arming people made us safer, the united states would be the safest country on earth. its just not. >> im wondering when he was playing violent video games and listening to heavy rock metal. but the thing is this all created so much chaos and confusion for hours. two small american cities were sent into lockdown. a highway and an interstate were closed down. the only advice coming from officials b...

Eliminate it to save lives. >> and wed like to thank you, alex, for capturing those images for us as well to see those final moments. because as you said, its important that everyone gets to see how this all plays out in the end. we thank you for, that alex. thank you. >> yeah, no problem. >> well, for more now on the police investigation into how and a motive for all this were joined from middleton, new jersey by cnn law enforcement analyst jonathan back ral. i want to read you our latest repor...

>> we have -- weve had calls, which is to be expected. because obviously our citizens are a little jumpy after this. he which is also to be expected. but once this individual was taken out of the picture, there have been no more victims. >> we get more now from cnns polo sandoval, whos been following this story since the moment it broke. >> reporter: authorities are telling me that it all started as a traffic violation. authorities with the texas department of public safety saying two of their s...

Attempting a traffic stop on interstate 20 when the lone okay pant of that vehicle before the car even came to a stop grabbed a rifle and aimed out his rear window and opened fire, wounding one of those two state troopers. well, that gunman, authorities say, then fled and then began shooting randomly at other innocent bystanders, wounding several people, that includes three additional officers, one with the odessa police department and one with mid land. he was cornered outside a movie theater a...

>> hes going to shoot. [ gunshots ] [ bleep ]. >> get down. >> oh, my god. are you down? >> are they shooting that man over there? >> i dont know. i dont know. i cant see. >> after exchanging fire with police the attacker was shot dead, it seems. odessa is about 250 miles, or 400 kilometers from the scene of the el paso mass shooting, exactly four weeks ago. midland mayor jerry morales spoke to cnns ana cabrera and he discussed how the latest shooting came to an end. >> the shooter was pulled ov...

People at stoplights -- kristin: small children. leland: -- and hijacked a mail truck. >> yesterday, august 31st, was saturday. should have been a great day, a long holiday weekend. we had something happen that we never would wish on anyone. the texas department of public safety made an initial traffic stop at about 3:15 on i-20 yesterday afternoon, and that trooper was shot during that traffic stop. our subject then proceeded into the city of to december saw -- odessa.

Know if it was a diversionary tactic for him to start shooting. and my rationale behind that is because he continued to draw attention to himself. and so, but it was a cold-blooded killer. its a different kind of a mass shooting. as you know, leland, weve dealt with mass shootings at a one-focus location. and in this mass shooting, this was a mobile mass shooting. and that is the certainly something that makes it very difficult for law enforcement to wrap their heads aroundment. leland: -- aroun...

>> first i have the to say thank you for thoughts and prayers and everyone out there they can continue to keep and basin in the thoughts and prayers were a secluded area out here in city biggest city in about four hours so night nit group and were 20 miles apart from each other and we rely heavily on each other because just if everybody in nation can just continue to keep us in their thoughts and prayers we would appreciate that going back to your questions -- it was a very chaotic still a very ...