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>> reporter: investigators here are this morning poring through the evidence they have collected and seized from the apartment that these two men shared here in phoenix. and they are trying to answer that very question. in addition to how close, if at all, were these two men to isis. the fbi filled a van with evidence from the gunmen's phoenix apartment. investigators scrubbing all items hoping to piece together a timeline of this plot. neighbors in their apartment complex saw nothing outwardly alarming from the two roommates except one of the men, elton simpson, put his car up for sale. >> i'...

A 2011 arrest talking to an fbi informant over years court records show he want today go to somalia to fight recorded on wiretaps saying if you get shot or killed it's heaven b straight away. heaven that's what we here for so why not take that route? the, nadir soofi was the other gunman. when his parents divorced he moved to pakistan with his father where he attended a prestigious school in islamabad. >> when that happens, it just shocks you. you know how good do you know these people? that's a question people ask themselves. >> reporter: a question elton simpson's family is also asking. in a...

Just -- shocks you. you know, how good did you know these people? that's a question that people ask themselves. >> reporter: a question elton simpson's family is also asking. in a statement released monday night, they write, just like everyone in our beautiful country, we are struggling to understand how this could happen. >> there is a lot of confusion in that statement and you can hear it through those words. a family struggling to understand and that is really felt across this community, ashleigh. a lot of people wondering were the clues there and did they just miss them. ashleigh? >> repor...

Attack before it happened. for example, there's one british man who's based in syria who before the attack occurred first posted something about people trying to take down islam with their mouths. and then secondly said the knives have been sharpened and the streets will run with blood, which indicates he may have had foreknowledge that this attack would occur. >> tom, the fbi and phoenix police both had investigations on elton simpson. and he gave them a lot of fodder it would seem because he was posting online his allegiance. how could this attack happen when he was already under investigati...

You look at elton simpson's profile you see red flags everywhere. like what? >> well a number of red flags including number one he was an open isis sympathizers. number two, he had a previous conviction in a terrorism related case for making a false statement to authorities. number three, in the days before he carried out the attacks he started talking about the bride that you'll have in paradise. and then number four obviously 25 minutes before he carried out the attack he said he was going to do so and hash tagged texas attack. so all those together i think tom has a good point about law enf...