The shootings began just before 11:30 a.m., when the 86-year-old was shot multiple times in the Richmond Hill area. He later died at a hospital. | World News
3-year-old boy. he is listed in serious but stable condition. and what you re watching here, these are live pictures of a press conference taking place there. the chicago police superintendent gary mccarthy calling again for a ban on high assault weapons that he believes were involved in that shooting. yeah, the shooting we re talking about happened last night in a park on the city s southside. police say the attack appears to be gang related. no arrests so far. of course, this is just the latest of a troubling trend in the nation s third biggest city. the fbi reports chicago leads the country in homicides. last year, 500 of them. the mayor rahm emanuel canceled a trip to washington today. his office issuing instead this statement saying senseless and brazen acts of violence have no places in chicago. and betray all that we stand for. this is just the first of
seemingly picking his victims at random. 8:26 a.m., alexis is then heads to the first floor, shooting a security guard, taking his handgun and investigators say he runs out of ammunition, uses the guard s gun to continue shooting his victims. and, of course, we know alexis killed 12 people in that shooting rampage. evan perez is following the investigation in washington. what is the latest information you re getting there from law enforcement? reporter: hi, michael. that s right. the authorities today are still trying to interview witnesses. they re trying to go through all the videotape. trying to make sure that they will try to figure out exactly what the order of events was on monday. we know he entered building 197. he goes up to the fourth floor, as you just showed. he comes out and appears he starts shooting randomly. he s not hunting anyone in particular. on the fourth floor, the authorities say there is some i.t. support office there which
he may have been familiar with. and one of the questions, obviously, is was there a workplace issue? was there something that set him off that brought him there on monday to start shooting. that is still something they re struggling with. they don t quite note how to put it together. but at this point, it can loos like he goes through the building, shooting randomly. goes down to the first floor. then back up. all of this goes down about 30 minutes before the authorities are able to bring him down and shoot him dead on monday morning. and like i said, right now, it s still very much an effort to try to figure out what might have motivated this on monday morning, mike. evan, there is some reporting perhaps he was had he worked with some of those individuals that he was targeting or that he shot. is that true? did he actually know the people that he was shooting? that is still an open question. the fbi is going through, like i said, interviewing witnesses. as far as we can tell, th