the intent of trying to kill as many people as possible. somebody who s going to hunt with a shotgun, hunt bird, they re going to get something that s a lot of small pellets that disperses like that. it won t ruin the meat. .00 buck is maybe 8 to 12 large pellets that comes out like a punch. we used to use those to shoot down basically open up and breach doors when we were on the s.e.a.l. teams. it has a very nasty effect if you re shooting a human with one of those. so since you know a lot about it, explain, do you think how well thought through his decision would have been to choose that kind of ammunition, this kind of buck shot shells as opposed to something else? earlier reports that it was an ar 15 or some other kind of weapon? right. well like i said earlier, he was going in there with the intent to kill as many people as possible. he didn t just randomly say i ll take that box of shotgun shell. he picked the most lethal type you can. and you were talking about sort of the
of security checks and background checks that they need to. yeah. but i might agree that there s been a lot of cutbacks because of the sequester. i mean, i have a whole host of friend and family that work in the dod community in the northern virginia and washington, d.c. area. it does affect pretty much everyone. but this guy s been working since before the sequester s hit. so maybe his last clearance check that should have been done, that re upped this year for his contracting work now, maybe that is affected by the sequester. but we re going back years before the sequester with most of what was happening. to what cade was saying earlier about his use of a shotgun, concealment of a shotgun. remington 870 is a very easy gun to disassemble. we used to do it every single day on a shift when i was a police officer before and after, disasim accept bell it down to the four or five major parts you take apart in seconds. that thing is easily concealable in a small bag.
he was then seen on surveillance video ducking into a bathroom. when he came out of the bathroom the shotgun was in one piece. he had buck shot shells each packed with a dozen pellets capable of hitting multiple targets although there are serious questions about that tonight. we re going have those for you. plus investigators are gathering so much more about alexis s final days in the past couple of hours. they now have his computer. they re pouring over surveillance video from the washington hotel where he was staying. we re going to have much more details on all of that, including alexis s history of mental illness. because just this august we have found out that alexis told police he was hearing voices in his head. and they did something crucial with that information. we re going have that for you. first i want to get straight to joe johns at the navy yard live in washington tonight. joe, you met a tomorrow today, a woman who was staying at the same washington hotel where alexis spe
captions by vitac www.vitac.com and good evening, everybody. i m erin burr nunett. we have breaking news in the investigation into the washington navy yard massacre. we are hearing now the first emergency dispatch calls from that chaotic scene yesterday morning. we just have those and i want to play it for you. we have a report on the fourth floor. a male with a shotgun. multiple shots fired. multiple people down. we have conflicting reports about the scene s security. we re sorting that out now. right now police confirm five people shot, could be others. can you give me a brief of how many we ve taken to which facilities so far? all units in the main triage group need to move left. the ambulances in line, you can