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Witnesses, police officer witnesses, there were muzzle flashes from about 125 yards up this hill right across the street and to my right. we recall when we were here in november right after the grand jury declined to mount any charges against officer darren wilson there were shots fired up there as well. in any case the officers went down on the ground as well as about 70 protestors who were there who had been protesting the fact that they wanted the mayor to resign and the police force to compl...

It was a very calm atmosphere. the shooting was completely random and unexpected. >> did you get a good look at anybody? when you heard the gun shot did you see anybody that you think could possibly be the suspect? >> absolutely not. the area they shot it from, from my vantage point it was almost impossible for me to make out a face or figure or anything. all of what i saw, because it happened so fast. when you turn your head so fast it takes a while for your brain to process. all i saw was a li...

Ing shot in quote, an ambush during protests overnight. >> what happened last night was a pure ambush. this was not someone trying to bring healing to ferguson. this was a damn punk. a punk who was trying to sew discord in an area that is trying to get its act together in trying to bring together a community that has been fractured for too long. >> hours ago a team of officers dressed in s.w.a.t. gear, sur surrounded a home in ferguson but no arrests have been made. the shooting happened amid pe...

I was -- myself it was myself an nbc news photographer randy, the producer jennifer and a local nbc affiliate photographer. we all lined up against the sidewalks. just i want to say to the right of the officers and just in front of them when the gunfire went off, so we heard -- we heard what we thought was a firecracker going on that was the first shot and we looked up to the top of the hill and then we saw the other gunshots actually saw the fire from the muzzle the gun coming towards our direc...

There was a different reaction in a text to cnn, quote, its really a hard pill to swallow, apparently he said. jackson will get one years pay and health benefits. >> i want to bring in cnns sara sidner. she has been following the story for us since the earliest day. she has been working her sources all night long. what happened before the moments of the shooting and what happened after? >> a couple of things. from the police we heard two officers have been hit. one in the face. one in the should...

The back several times, and then run into that car. now, just ahead of that, we saw a snowplow. a snowplow was there precisely at the right time to hide the killing itself. you do not see him being shot. it happens behind the >> the idea they would know where that introduce is to create a security clip i think that is a little unlikely no matter how great the planning was to do the hid. secondly, without the plow, if you had seen the bullets coming out of the gun, the flash of the muzzle when he...

Savage model 99 was tested at the oregon state police lab. the rifle had to be 36 inches away from the target to leave no trace of gunpowder. this meant that browns rifle was at least three feet away when the trigger was pulled. >> to have muzzle to target distance three feet and a level entry and exit wound, how do you contort yourself to be able to do that when hes claiming all he was doing was passing the gun along? >> with this forensic evidence, tom brown was arrested and charged with murde...

Sidner joins us live from los angeles. one of the suspects in the l.a. shooting is at large and potentially armed? >> reporter: thats right, armed and dangerous. i think what were hearing now from the police is that they have let people go ahead and come out of their homes. at first, they had them sheltering in place for quite a few hours. it happened last night here on the street behind me, hoover street, in south l.a. what were told from police is a couple of officers in their black-and-white ...

Suspect? do police believe the suspect is still armed? the police are still looking for the second suspect. they have one suspect in custody and they have found a weapon as well. were not sure exactly what that weapon is but they have found a firearm as well. and i will let you know that they expect to take some of this police tape down the next ten minutes or so so theyre wrapping some things up and interviewing the officers who were involved in the shooting. both of them were driving along, ...

Hardest things to see was those three women forced to hold that flag up up against the flag and another image of a poor guy in obvious distress with a muzzle of a shotgun in frame being pointed at his head. that was the first time hed seen a clear threatening pose that the gun was pointed at a blokes head, in a passive stance up against the glass. >> reporter: greg parker has been around the block a sfew times, hes seen good, also evil. but never this close to home. >> one of our producers had j...