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Identification process. so a lot of unanswered questions at this hour as police are first and foremost trying to make sure that everything is safe. and then all of the other details and the rest of the nitty-gritty will come out in the coming hours and days kelly. okay. casey casey, thank you for your reporting tonight and keeping us updated throughout the evening. a new normal what happened in garland, texas, as casey has reported throughout the evening. two gunmen pulling up to a muhammad art exhibit outside the caldwell center. shot a security officer. the security officer wounded only in the ankle. the garland police department ready on the scene in case something happened because of the controversial nature in defense of free speech was unfolding tonight. they were there at the ready and took out those two gunmen. their bodies still lay at the vehicle they were driving, as ....
Campaign against the building of an islamic center just blocks away from here in new york at the world trade center. her group also buying advertising space in cities across the united states criticizing the religion of islam. and so, her group, that s the information we have. if you do look at their website, clint, and you can see some of the depictions of the prophet muhammad and to many muslims they would find that offensive and on the website it does advertise that they are going to have that they were going to have today the muhammad art exhibit and cartoon contest. and that it was to begin and according to what it s saying starting at 5:00 p.m. local time there. looks like it started at 5:00, ended at 7:00. ....
Moment we have varying accounts of when this happened. but what we know is that two men in that time period pull up in a vehicle and shot a garland police officer that was outside the building. what was happening inside that building was a fair. now, the fair was showing artwork, illustrations of the prophet, muhammad and the name of that fair was the muhammad art exhibit and context. that s what happened. now, the two individuals that did drive up and shot that police officer were then shot and killed themselves. we don t know who they are. we don t know where they are from, or what their motive was. that information we don t have at the moment. what we can say is that police are confirming that those two men have been shot and killed, and that those two men did shoot a police officer from that area. that s what we know at this hour. let s bring in cliff van zant, ....
A muhammad art exhibit going on. only wounded in the ankle. we should point out police officers were at the ready sh they were on the scene and took down those two gunmen. we re looking at a car those two gunmen pulled up in. bill daily, former fbi investigator joined us now. and this is something the officer had been ready for. and they likely saved lives tonight. yes. it s a great bit of police work we ve seen tonight in garland, texas. the fact is that this exhibit would adraw attention. apparently by reports from the police chief is that there was no specific threat they re acting on. but quick acting by a police officer on the scene ....
We re counting down to the top of the hour when garland, texas, police will give us a live update on the shooting outside of the muhammad art exhibit and cartoon contest at that took place last night. we ll bring you this news conference when it begins. we expect that to happen in just about three minutes. we re now learning the suspected shooter, elton simpson, was an isis sympathizers and had links to known isis members on twitter and tweeted prior to the attack using the hashtag texas attack. that cartoon contest was hosted by a group considered anti-muslim by the southern poverty law center. the organization maintains the event was about free speech period. i want to bring in bob. good morning. what do you make of these suspects? well for the fbi and the ....