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>> he was middle-aged. >> give us a sense of how you saw this man? what struck you most of all the suspect? >> the gun. i only saw him with one weapon, it was an ak-47 type weapon. it had a curve magazine, a distinctive silhouette. >> did you see the shooter being taken into custody? >> i did, i saw him exchanging fire with the officers appeared i later saw him being handcuffed, face down in the
>> art, jeff told snaen the 50 shorts sort of reported initially he thought were an understatement to what happened there today. we know two firearms were recovered, sks rifle, a nine millimeter pennsylvania. if you didn't have people shooting back, what could have happened here? >> when you look at it in an sks rifle with an effective range up to 300 yards easily and it's a high caliber, high-velocity type weapon, i don't know if he knew this was a soft target or thought it was a soft target. in realty. you had a protection detail here. it's hard to tell what his mind set was and figured out ...
Springs is nbc's leanne gregg. >> reporter: it could take several days just to process the crime spree, they're trying to piece together what caused the gunman to open fire into that planned parenthood, he apparently had an ak-47 type weapon. before the standoff was over, three people were dead, nine were injured. here's what one of the survivors had to say. >> i noticed people until front were going down, and they were saying everyone get down, everyone get down and i heard gunshots, i saw the gunman, and we grabbed the table, we placed it against the door, we sat there for at least up the to...
They were alert and able to talk to medical personnel at the hospital. our pete williams is standing by. pete, what more do you have for us? >> reporter: well, thomas, several officials now tell us that the gunman who entered the washington navy yard this morning heavily armed and began firing shots is dead. the navy had earlier used the term "neutralized" which could have meant either that he was no longer in a medical condition where he could fire any shots, but we're told now that he is dead. we don't know anything about him yet. they're still working to identify him. that will move along v...
>> neil: you know, this pressure cooker use, a lot of these explosives were contained in pressure cooker type devices hidden in backpacks. very analogous to the type of devices we are told were used in afghanistan and pakistan. so that once again raised the issue, they almost have to have been foreign born. but as you pointed out in the atlanta case, not always. and i think in the times square case it was a similar type weapon that was averted in new york, and in fact there was a taliban group that claimed responsibility for that. no such responsibility claim this time. what are we to make of ...