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Eastern when two texas department department of public safety troopers attempted to stop a vehicle on interstate 20 westbound and several shots were fire towards the trooper. and so without too few details burk was he ready for the confrontation or a spur of the moment thing? >> well, yeah. i think that those are excellent questions. why the police don't say the word routine. you didn't hear them say routine traffic stop. they were conducting a traffic stop. that could mean something very significant. the fact that this person was shooting out the back indicates to me that maybe desperation, b...

Routine traffic stop, to emphasize how surprised and how unexpected this was. but they don't use the term routine. and that, to me, leads me to believe that he was being stopped for a particular reason that may have been part of this entire thing. maybe not in the way they expected. >> and at this point, i mentioned this at the top of the broadcast, between mid land and odessa, there's i-20, and there's quite a scene here that investigators will have to go back and comb through to speak to witnesses. where does this investigation proceed? where does it pick up from here? >> you know, you're re...

So this notion that if we just arm more people america will be safer is just belied by the facts. if arming people made us safer, the united states would be the safest country on earth. it's just not. >> i'm wondering when he was playing violent video games and listening to heavy rock metal. but the thing is this all created so much chaos and confusion for hours. two small american cities were sent into lockdown. a highway and an interstate were closed down. the only advice coming from officials basically was don't go outside. so once a lunatic like this is carried out an attack like this is i...

Eliminate it to save lives. >> and we'd like to thank you, alex, for capturing those images for us as well to see those final moments. because as you said, it's important that everyone gets to see how this all plays out in the end. we thank you for, that alex. thank you. >> yeah, no problem. >> well, for more now on the police investigation into how and a motive for all this we're joined from middleton, new jersey by cnn law enforcement analyst jonathan back ral. i want to read you our latest reporting on the moments before the gunman opened fire. the shooting appears to have begun about 3:13 ...

>> we have -- we've had calls, which is to be expected. because obviously our citizens are a little jumpy after this. he which is also to be expected. but once this individual was taken out of the picture, there have been no more victims. >> we get more now from cnn's polo sandoval, who's been following this story since the moment it broke. >> reporter: authorities are telling me that it all started as a traffic violation. authorities with the texas department of public safety saying two of their state troopers were attempting a traffic stop on interstate 20 when the lone occupant of that vehi...