Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171118:11:33:00
>> we start trying to get background on dylan spellman. >> reporter: some quick computer searches revealed spellman had a criminal past. >> dylan spellman had just been convicted of a violent crime. >> yes. >> on an armed robbery in in nevada. >> yeah. >> reporter: that nevada armed robbery occurred in 2010, a year and a half before the shootings. spellman and some accomplices broke into a home in a las vegas suburb and held a family hostage before robbing them and taking off. >> anybody get killed? >> no. >> reporter: and at the time of the shootings in 2012,