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Davis, now recovering after shrapnel was removed from her chest. he would ditch his sedan, highjacking a postal van and killing mail carrier mary granados. her twin, rosie, racing to the scene. >> i was calling her name to see if she would answer me, but she wasnt answering because she was already dead. >> reporter: that shooter would continue driving, ramming that mail van into a police cruiser before being killed. >> all right, matt gutman reporting in live tonight from odessa, texas, hes been...

Other or do we have two vehicles? >> theres at least occupying a mail truck. they believe its part of it. its a second active vehicle headed westbound. >> reporter: so keep in mind, poppy, that audio that you just heard was recorded about 40 minutes after this whole incident started. they were still trying to get a handle on what exactly they were looking for. all of it culminated here with the crash and then the shootout with police. the driver of that mail van, her na -- she was out doing her ...

Were learning more this afternoon about the gunman behind saturdays deadly attacks in texas. the states republican governor tweeted this afternoon that the gunman had a criminal history, failed a previous background check, and did not go through one for the gun he actually used. now, seven people were killed and 22 others injured on saturday in those daylight drive by shootings, which stretched from midland to odessa and west texas. happening after the gunman was pulled over for a traffic stop. ...

You know, gunshot. and i turned to camera 2 towards the movie theater and you see the cop ramming into the mail van, which was the shooters vehicle. and then ramming into the barrier. and the cop jumped out of the vehicle and discharged his weapon into the drivers side. and the shooting stopped from there. and not in the video but later it appears to be through a flash grenade into the back of the van i would assume to make sure there was no further threat. >> what, alex, made you stop to record...

To the hospital, next to the movie theater. next thing someone, i hear a pop. i flipped the camera to where the theater is at. and i see a bunch of gunfire going off. i can see the officer walking up to the mail van and discharging his weapon into it. i believe that is when the shooter was killed. >> wow. what was going through your mind? very surreal moment. i never thought it would happen in my life. >> i imagine you are shaken up. did you get a look at this man who was the shooter? >> i did n...

When the police opened fire on the gunman? >> oh, yeah. in the video when i -- its hard to see it but when i said the police officer hit the barrier, it hit the mail van that was driving and then he hit the barrier and in that moment the police officer jumped out of his vehicle and discharged his weapon into the drivers side of the mail van and in that moment i believe was when the shooter was killed. because there was no more shooting and it was a silence over there. its not shown on the video,...

Police officer? he wasnt from some sort of tactical team. he wasnt wearing kevlar, for example. he was just sort of a regular group who drew his sidearm? is that how you saw it? >> yeah, thats correct. he was just -- he might have been highway patrol. he was not like a s.w.a.t. or anything. he just rammed into that mail van and that mail van spun around and he jumped out of his vehicle and eliminated the threat. >> and just with his regular sort of police issue sidearm. >> yeah, pistol. >> when ...

>> caller: yeah, thats correct. he might have been highway patrol. he was not like, you know, like an s.w.a.t. or anything. he just rammed into that mail van, and that mail van spun around and he jumped out of his vehicle and eliminated the threat. >> just with his regular sort of police issue sidearm. >> caller: yeah, pistol. >> when you consider everything that this guy who was driving this mail van had done in the last number of hours, the number of people he killed and wounded, this cop was ...

>> there seems to be no doubt no, hesitation, and you jumped into action. so can you explain where did that clarity of thought come from? >> from there, it was all adrenaline. just my brain was not really thinking, but it was saying get it on camera, because people need to see what is happening. and plus, i would like to hand this footage over to the police and maybe it would help in their investigation. >> and i mean, looking at the video, it appears that there is quite some distance between yo...