cnn s polo sandoval joining me right now. polo, a 6-year-old girl was killed in a shooting just three miles away from nationals park. what can you tell us? the result, fred, is a community in southwest washington, d.c. that is just outraged. this 6-year-old little girl was supposed to be start k the first grade this fall, and now we know that won t happen. so authorities there in washington, d.c. are offering a $60,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest of those responsible for the death of little naya courtney, an innocent bystander that was in a crowd when a car pulled up and opened fire. in this video you see a silver vehicle driving through an intersection. and then from one second to another once it approaches the intersection you see the muzzle flashes as they open fire. d.c. s police chief says officers were actually nearby. there s that moment there, fred. it s pretty dramatic stuff. police officers with the washington, d.c. metropolitan police department were n
the same day as the plane crash, also saw a fatal derailment of a subway in the city. three people were killed when the metro derailed in a downtown tunnel. those accidents both happened on one day in washington. but that terrible day in washington was 31 years ago. four years ago in washington, there was another metro train crash which killed nine people. but today was the worst day in washington, d.c., in a generation. reporting on the story of what happened today in this mass shooting at the navy yard meant tallying up what seemed to be a new, higher death toll just about every hour over the course of the day. the latest information that we have is that 13 people lost their lives today, including the apparent shooter, and that 14 other people were injured in the attack. that puts today s incident in washington on par with the columbine shooting in 1999 or the aurora, colorado, movie theater shooting last summer or the binghamton, new york, shooting in 2009 at the
careful census, count heads, take attendance of everybody who is accounted for so they can keep careful records. and then you have this fact that the d.c. police department still is trying to check out this report of another person, which i think is going to turn out to be a washout, but they are just being very careful. and so, for all those reasons, that s right, everybody hasn t gone home yet. wow. have you learned any more details late today and tonight about this alleged shooter, aaron alexis? we ve got reports today that he did have some relatively minor criminal history, also some interesting reports about his status as a defense contractor. how does that relate to his potential access to this site? well, he certainly had access to the site. there s no question about that. what we believe is that he came up here the last couple of days to work with a team of contractors on a military computer project and that they were staying in a hotel, a residence iinn right near the wash
man in this, the same shopping area here, after the owner of the thai restaurant got married, alexsion had to move out and find another roommate. and kxas tv is on the scene of that roommate s house. they knocked on the door and the fbi answered. so, they re trying to get some answers from the man as well. so, it s an unfolding story here in ft. worth about just who aaron alexis was. nbc news s charles hadlock reporting from ft. worth. charles, thank you so much for being with us. i appreciate your time tonight, thanks. more to come on today s mass shooting at the d.c. navy yard, plus lots more. please stay with us. an individual who came from the building behind us, i mean, this building. he came up and was talking to me, basically saying, hey, there s a shooter in your building. then i heard two more shots. one of them hit him. he went down in front of me and i took off from there. the guy you were with? the guy i was talking to. got shot? correct. sfx: birds chirping
what it has to do with anything, who knows? one last question for you, pete. what do we know about the weapons that he may have had, and does that tell us anything about what it might have taken for him to get that kind of weaponry into the navy yard facility? sure, good questions. and i guess i have two answers to that. there s nothing that we know of in his past, even though he had treatment at v.a. hospitals for some psychiatric issues, nothing that would have disqualified him from buying a weapon. remember that the federal standard is a judged mentally incompetent. that s the phrase in the law, or mentally defective i think is the word that the statute uses. so, a judge has to make a finding that you have a mental problem that would disqualify you, not merely that you have psychiatric problems. so, the weapon, we believe, was purchased just within the past few days, just last week at a gun store in lorton, virginia, which is about 20 miles from washington, d.c. it takes about a