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overall, everyone does see joseph wilcox as a hero and he lost his life trying to do that, ashley. >> stephanie elam live for us in las vegas. john avlon is a cnn political analyst, also author of "wing nuts," and he has written about this incident. also the editor in chief of "the daily beast." you have spent a long time today on the facebook pages of this two. what did you learn? >> these two are influenced by politics and the echo chamber debate you hear, where the federal government is a tyranny, fascism, which is why they put the swastikas and gadsden flag on the police officers. these folks were definitely motivated, however unhinged they were as well, by politics, by ideology, and that is the wages of this kind of divisive hatred movement we've seen in america. >> hatriot, not patriot.
don't tread on me flag was placed over swasti tone, a swa swastika over one. joseph wilcox is being called a hero. he was at the checkout stand. he saw jerad miller come in, fire a shot into the ceiling, fire a shot and say it was the start of a revolution. joseph wilcox approached the suspect with a gun. he had his own concealed gun on his person. as he approached him, he had passed amanda miller the other suspect not knowing she was with him. amanda miller would then shoot him basically in the side as he was approaching him. joseph wilcox unfortunately died as well as a hero trying to save people at that walmart. really disturbing details as we go on and hear more about what happened yesterday in las vegas, gretchen. we do -- the important thing to note is that authorities say it is an isolated act.
who have stood by the bergdahl family the last five years and they are upset to see this. one local official calling these threats absolutely appalling. and many people around here are asking those that are criticizing the family and bowe bergdahl to wait and hear their side of the story, and at least try to understand with so much criticism of bob bergdahl from some corners around the country, one family friend is saying try to stop and understand what this man had gone through for the last five years and understand a little bit from his perspective. >> this is a man who immersed himself into it because he wanted to understand what his son was going through, and for anybody not to understand that, either, you know, either they have no children, or they have no shame, or they are so devoted to some ideology and political rhetoric that they are blind to everything else. >> reporter: ashleigh, this kind of goes to exactly what many around here, especially those
that is what we know so far. also interesting that after jared miller assassinated and executed the officer and open fire on the second, he pulled the officers from the booth in which they were sit iting and t flag over one of the revolutionary flag they had not parsed with them. that's when they went out. the third victim, a man by the name of joseph wilcox had a concealed weapon he was confronting jared miller. as he drew his weapon.
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here in 2001. the two suspects you will see to my left here. the victim in this case, mr. joseph wilcox is 31 years of age. so a chronology of events yesterda yesterday. taking their lunch break. at that time, mr. jared miller entered into the restaurant, looked around briefly and immediately exited the rest raupt.
my officers were simply having lunch. >> reporter: but the couple wasn't done. they doubted across the street to this walmart where they encountered joseph wilcox at the entrance and shot him dead. >> joseph died trying to protect others. >> reporter: police arrive, then a shootout. but before police can get to them, amanda miller shoots jerad and then herself. police found multiple roupds of ammunition. they believe they were planning on having a massive shootout with police but because of some quick action, police were able to encounter them by going into the front of the al mart and coming from the back. they encountered them and had nowhere to go and that's why they took their own life. >> police are looking into the visit at the cliven ranch. what are you finding out about that? >> reporter: police are looking into this. what is interesting is that dan
learning about this couple, ashley, we do know they were at the cliven bundy rancher outrage, you may remember that a few weeks ago, when people were saying the government was mistreating the man who wanted to farm his animals on government-owned property. we learned the ranchers threw this couple out because they said their ideals were too radical. we also know they had a lot of ammunition they brought with them, it was clear they did not plan on leaving out of there. after they were caught in walmart, the wife shot her husband and then she shot herself, ashley. >> stephanie, you mention that third victim, joseph wilcox, you had a chance to speak to a couple of people who knew him. what did they say? >> reporter: i was actually able to speak to his sister and also i was able to speak to his friend, who was with joseph in walmart at the time. his name is jeremy tanner, and he was saying he was conflicted, because he knows his friend did
people dead yesterday and what has just been released that has not been seen before are actually pictures now of the two suspects. here they are. it was a couple, joseph wilcox, and the other name is -- well, it is a woman there. they are also now deceased. why though, why did they kill two police officers? and another person. another innocent person. right now police are at the press conference there giving the latest in the report. we will get those -- here are the names. they're telling me right now. jared miller and amanda miller. there they are. more on this as it becomes available. new details now on the u.s. marine being held in that mexican jail. the veterans of foreign wars, vfw, now asking president obama to personally pressure mexico's government to release marine sergeant am drew tahmooressi, in custody since march 31st when he claimed he accidentally crossed the boarder with three legally registered guns.
joe shinamam is with us, a rotter for the las vegas sun newspaper and he's just gotten out of the news conference there. joe, did you learn anything new? >> yeah, quite a bit. it was one of the more detailed press conferences i'd ever been to at a metro incident. i was really surprised to see the young woman was only 22. her husband 31. and the innocent bystander at the walmart was carrying a concealed weapon. his name is joseph wilcox. and he tried to -- he saw what was happening. i guess the two came inside, the husband shot one bullet in it to the air and said everybody get out of here. he saw what was happening, he walked toward him with his gun. he doesnidn't know the woman wa