>> i'm wolf blitzer in for erin burnett. we have a special live edition of "outfront" happening right now. a shooting spree in southern california ends in a college library with seven people dead. including a suspected shooter. police say the carnage began in a home that was set on fire. the suspect, then, according to police, carjacked a woman and drove towards santa monica college. that's when the gunman who was

dressed in s.w.a.t. gear got out of the car and began firing at passing vehicles. inscluding a city bus. he jumped back in the car and went on the left and took off. >> i heard one bang, stopped, bang, bang, bang, bang. i ran, grabbed my stuff as fast as i could, hid in a study room and i just walted there. >> police say the gunman than ran on to the santa monica campus where he exchanged fire with police and was ultimately killed. there was one person in custody who police are questioning at this hour. our miguel marquez is joining

us. what do we know, first of all, about this suspect? >> well, we know he is dead. we're not clear if there is any other suspect, the other person that you mentioned is at all involved with this scene. we also know the suspect is related to the two individuals in the house that was set on fire. we understand through several sources now that it's the brother and father of that suspect who were in that house and then the shooting spree that continued in the streelts of santa monica. we also, wolf, at this hour, understand that the college itself has been completely cleared. police have gotten through there and it's 100% clear at this point. and police are also telling us that they have an identification now on the suspect. so they can just begin digging into who this person is and what his motivation may have been. >> we're standing by for a news

conference, santa monica police and others, they're getting ready to brief us any moment now, is that right? >> we are. in fact, i expect that they will be up here at any moment. they've promised that they're going to have more information. it is a very difficult scene for them to deal with, obviously. they want to make sure that all of their information is correct. is there is a lot of information about who this was, the different places where it all occurred and then how everything ended up here. also, whatever information they do give out, they want to make sure it's solid and a hundred percent. one thing that they are saying is that the area is safe. they've gone through a hundred percent of the school and they're quite sure that they have that completely secured.

>> thef said earlier that that person of interest, they detained them because they believed they had enough information to suspect that they may have something to do with this series of shootings. but they're not entirely sure. out of an abundance of caution, they held that person. it's not clear whether they've had anything directly or indirectly to do with assisting in these shootings today. we do have a picture of a rather disturbing picture of a man who is laying outside the library, according to students. and then the body was taken outside. there was no aid being given to

him at the time. the students who saw him realized he was dead. you could see him clearly dressed in the black fatigues, black boots. the knee pads. it doesn't appear that he's wearing a protective vest. we are not convinced 100% that the suspect who was killed operated in a solo or alone can pacify. we might get clarification on that momentarily. we're expecting the police chief and others to show up and brief us on what's going on. obviously, this is a very sensitive subject, whether or not there was, in fact, a second person involved in these shootings. right now, as you point out,

miguel, it's unclear. >> it is. the person of interest is in custody. they may have been released for all we know if they will come up and brief us, as they've promised. but they also searched throughout the school to make sure that there was no other shooter involved. we had a lot of confusion among witnesses today. some saying that they saw one shooter dressed one way, another saying that the shooter had handguns. we have no indication, official indication, that any shooter had a handgun. the police chief confirming to us, which is what witnesses told us earlier, that they had a single, long rifle, an ar-15. it's a semi-automatic. every time you pull the trigger, it fires off a round and people here at the school certainly heard many, many rounds going off. throughout the afternoon. they also heard the shooter arguing and engaging verbally with police at one point during

the afternoon with police yelling at him to drop the weapon. he refused to do so and was shot and killed. amazing amazingly, it may have been campus police who killed him. the campus police chief saying that his officers did, in fact, exchange gunfire with the gunman. >> miguel, standby. hopefully, we're going to get some clarification from police wuchbs they show up with those microphones. standby to those viewers, as well, with live coverage in santa moni krurks a. there's another story that we're following out front tonight. ariel castro indielted today on 329 counts for allegedly kidnapping michelle knight, dina dejesus and then castro faces 139 counts of rape.

177 counts of kidnapping. and one count of aggravated murder for purposely causing the unlawful termination of a pregnancy. after learning about the charges, lawyers for the survivors issued this statement. i'll read it to you. we have a great legal system plus confidence and faith in the prosecutors office and its decisions. now we need to stand back and let the judicial process unfold. martin savage has been following the story right from the beginning. he's joining us now with the latest information. he's coming out front. martin? >> wolf, the indictment is huge. there's still more to come. right now, the charges include 1389 counts of rape, 177 counts of kidnapping. but the most serious is the one count of agravated murder who says that while she was held, she became pregnant and that

ariel castro was so angry, he beat her and she miscarried. the prosecutor said he wanted to try to seek murder charges on that. he has done that. what remains open is will the state try to go after a death penalty stipulation. that hasn't been affirmed by the prosecutors office. yet, they say they will walt until their investigation and the charging is kpleeltly done. and that raises oolt issue. the charges only cover a period of 2002 to 2007. that means that there is still another five, six more years of charges that apparently are being investigated. and that means there could be hundreds more charges of what could be as a result of what happened. so the interesting thing about the murder stipulation here, and i'll point this out, is that there was an amendment that was

recently made to the ohio murder stay chult. and that includes the loss of a pregnancy. but in the wording of that statute, they did not define a person. and as one lawyer pointed out to me, it's going to be very hard to charge somebody with mumurdeu say it wasn't a person who was murdered. as for the castro family, they say they knew these charges were coming. the brother says he deserves everything that ariel castro gets. many have wondered why has it taken so long. wolf? >> good point, martin savage reporting for us. earlier, we also spoke to the ohio toernl general in a phone interview. he explained the formula prosecutors use to come up with the 139 counts of rape. >> their basically took a period 06 time from when the event occurred until the birth of the child and then took it every month. i think if you look at it, it's

basically one count per month per victim. and so it's a sensible way of doing it. this is unprecedented case. very difficult to figure out exactly do you charge for every day? do you charge for once a month? i think what the prosecutor has done is a very sensible approach. and, as you pointed out, they still have the option and will have to make the decision whether or not they will try to, you know, go for the death penalty in this case. and that's a decision that has not yet been made and will be made at some point in the future. >> let's dig a little bit deeper with cnn legal analyst, the normer new york city prosecutor, paul cowen. what's your sense, paul? they're more likely to seek life in prison? or will they actually seek the death sentence? >> it's a tough case for the death penalty. not because it doesn't have all of the things that you usually see, cruelty and particularly horrible death, killing of a fetus here.

however, it's very unusual to see the death penalty imposed where you have a fetus that has been killed and not the noer. usually both are killed. and the real probable in proving that count is how do you prove that she actually was pregnant apt t at the time that the prosecutors say. there's no pathology report. so it's really going to be just her subjective opinion about it. and can you do that beyond a reasonable doubt? i think it's a problem. the second thing is the supreme court basically has held the death penalty can only be imposed for the death of a person. since we don't know what the age of a fetus would be here, i don't know if it would be defined legally as a person under u.s. law. so there are just lots of problems with the death penalty in position in the case. >> the allegation had been it wasn't just one-time or two-times, but several times he would beat up this young woman in order to force her to have a

miscarriage after she got pregnant. does that make any difference? that it wasn't just once or twice? it might have been three or four times? >> well, it does make a difference in that that establishes a sort of a special level of kul cruelty in the infliction of the death of the fetus or fetuses as the case may be. it still doesn't get around this prlem of proof. how do you prove she really was pregnant? how do you prove that the fetus was loss because of the beating or the stress of being kidnapped. it's a real uphill battle. i might add, wolf, i did some quick calculations. on the 329 counts that he's facing, i'm coming up with bhr than 3,000 years in prison he faces on those counts, plus life if he gets convicted under the aggravated murder counts. prosecutors certainly have plenty to work with as it is without complicating the case

with the death penalty issues. >> i've gotten a bunch of tweets if it's possible for him to plead not guilty because of insanity. >> it's an uphill battle for him. usually, when you have a crime that involves lots of planning, careful planning over an extensive period of time, it doesn't qualify for the insanity defechbs. insanity tends to be someone who doesn't understand what they're doing is wrong. and they're acting under compulsions. >> i've read accounts here that he would set up situations where he would leave the house and try to fool his victims into thinking he wasn't coming back and then he would beat them unmercifully when they tried to escape. he was carefully planning. he was tieing them up. he was beating them over an extensive period of time. it's going to be a real tough insanity defense. >> paul cowan with expert legal

analysis. thank you very much. >> up next on this special live edition of outfront, we're waiting for a press conference to start any minute now in santa monica, california for an update on the deadly shooting spree. standby for that. we'll have live coverage. plus, an arrest in the case of rricin being sent to the president of the united states and the mayor of new york. the suspect and the actress who appeared on one of the most popular tv shows. and the u.s. government is collecting details on phone calls made in the united states. president obama says it's absolutely necessary to prevent terrorist attacks. what's going on? we'll have the latest on this. stay with us. our live coverage continues. vo: traveling you definitely end up meeting a lot more people but

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following breaking news, getting ready for a news conference. seven people are dead. six victims, the alleged shooter, as well. a mass shooting spree on the campus of santa monica college, also, at a neearby house where we're awaiting more details of a second individual. we'll have live coverage of the news conference once the santa monica police and others show up. that is expected momentarily.

standby for that. meantime, let's bring in carolyn who saw the suspect get out of his car and open fire. carolyn, pick up the story. what happened? tell our viewers where you were. you were pretty close. you looked at this individual up close and you saw his face. >> yeah, he was at a red light and i was at the opposite red light. and i saw him get out of his car and started spraying an office building to his right. >> spraying the office building with an automatic weapon? an assault rifle, right? >> some sort of automatic gub. >> what did it look like to you?

>> i'm not too familiar with guns, but it was a huge gun. >>. >> he turned and started shooting in the air. and then he turned to the left and started shooting at the left. at that point, i decided maybe i should get down in my car. so i laid down on the front seat. i thought if i was lying there, nobody could see me. i was lying there for a while and i got back up and looked and he took off in the car. i didn't see anything more after that. and then i pulled over to the side and got out of my car. >> did you get a good description, a good sense of what this individual looked like? >> well, he was dressed completely in black.

he was average height, white. i thought it was -- at first, i thought it was a movie shooting or something because it was so odd to be in the middle of an active, busy intersection and have somebody get out of the car and start shooting a gun. i couldn't even place the event at first. it was so bizarre. >> you live in the area where you see a lot of films being shot from time to time. so you thought this was some set for a film? for a movie? >> well, it didn't seem to haveny other explanation at first. i don't know if you can hear me. there's a lot of crackling on the line. >> no, we hear you fine. we may have just lost you, but we hear you fine. i think we just lost our connection.

she was an eyewitness when this individual, this suspect started just shooting. she says pointsing the weapon and just shooting up in the air and shooting at buildings and then moving on to the campus, this is a mass shooting that we're following. once again, we're standing by, standing by for this live news conference. we expect to hear from the santa monica police chief as well as others. there's the microphones. you see them right there. once they show up, hopefully, that will be soon. we'll get some answers to more questions. six people confirmed dead. another person, the shoot, also dead. seven people dead right now. key question, was another person involved? a second person? the police earlier said they had tentively identified someone they called a person of interest. unclear if that person has any connection with this alleged shooter. standby for the news conference once it begins. and we anticipate that it could begin fairly sooner.

our miguel marquez has been on the scene. maybe these are the vimgs walking over right now. >> if you just saw the individuals who are coming over, they are coming over to brief us now. what they're going to do is talk to the spanish press and then come over and give us an update. who are we speaking to today? >> it's me and richard lewis. and then ser jebt rudy. >> all right.

>> the college itself has been completely cleared. we don't hear the helicopters overhead. and certainly, a lot of the individuals have cleared out. the one thing we have seen that is new now, that the coroners have shown up here and perhaps we'll learn a little bit more about that, as well, as to why those coroners are here and what they'll be doing. are you guys ready to go? we'll let them take over. >> are we ready? i want to thank our local, state and federal partners here in assisting us. it's a rather large crime scene. it's spanning just about a mile in diameter. and we have approximately nine crime scenes working right now. we want to thank everybody there for that. it's much needed and appreciated. what we have right now, again, as you know, the incident began at about 11:52 today. at a residence in the 2000 block

of york shire. in that residence, we have two fatalities. the smt went from that residence, carjacked a female and had her start driving at exposition -- or clover field in peco, he shot at a big blue bus. on that bus, we had three injured, all minor. and all walked into the hospital themselves. the vehicle then traveled onto 20th and pearl. in the 1900 block of pearl or what they call lot 1 of the santa monica college campus, encountered a red ford explorer and shot at the two occupants in there. unfortunately, the driver of that vehicle expired here at the scene and the passenger in that vehicle is at a hospital in critical condition. the suspect then went on to the campus, fired at another victim

in front of the library. she was transferred to the hospital and subsequently expired sometime after. went into the library, engaged officers in a fire fight chlts he was fatally wounded or he was shot, taken out of the library and expired here on the sidewalk. so what we have are the corrected numbers. we have four deceased. if you include the suspect, that makes five. the subject that was detained earlier in the evening that you inquired about. he has been questioned and released. he had a valid reason for being here at the cam puss. after that was all checked out, he was released. he is not a suspect in this case. >> i'm sorry, what's that? >> we have four deceased victims.

the suspect makes five deceased. one critically injured in the hospital. we have three with minor injuries. and then we have one that was in serious condition, serious but stable condition at a local hospital. gunshot wounds or injuries related to gunshots or shrapnel or flying glass. there was three from the bus. if you want to talk about the victims and they're injured, i can bring the captain on or we can just continue there. at this time, we believe it's a single gunman. that part of it has been resolved. the id is going to come from the coron coroner's office. that's where we'll get the official id. in law enforcement, we're working our leads. but until that's confirmed, we won't be able to work that out.

>> can you say with a hundred percent certainty, santa monica school is safe tonight? >> yes, the school is not on lockdown. it is closed because of numerous scenes along the campus. the city is very safe, yes. >> well, from the vehicle and/or got out of the vehicle and fired shots. and, understand, it's not a school shooting, too. this is an incident that began within our city limits at a residence and just works its way on to the school grounds. there was subsequent shootings on that route.

>> was he shooting randomly out of the cars that he carjacked. >> >> well, we have nine crime scenes. they're not shooting scenes. one shooting scene where two victims were shot. the vehicle traveled after that and then crashed. that becomes a crime scene in and of itself. so that becomes two crime scenes. lot five right across the street and then hit a block wall. >> what can you tell us about the weapon? about the rifle? >> it's an assault-type rifle. i don't want to go as far and say it's an ar-15, but that is the style of rifle it is. there are other weapons, as well. >> yeah, how many? i don't know, there's handguns. >> other witnesses sent the handgun. >> there's at least one, there may be more. there's other magazines for the rifle. >> on the scene? >> they are here on one of our crime scenes, yes.

well, that's all part of an on going investigation. we wouldn't know that at this hour. >> was he wearing arm gear? was that a description of his clothing? >> he was wearing dark, black clothing and he had a tactical-type vest on, but it's not a load-bearing vest which would hold body armor. >> that, in turn, looks like the lady shot in front of the library. >> five dead? >> no. four deceased. one critical. that person could become deceased. and then we have the other injuries i spoke of. >> the suspect i dead? >> yes. >> and was the carjack letting us know? >> she is fine. she's uninjured.

>> skbr we. >> we're not giving up that information untilg it's confirmed. if some of those leads take us that way, we'll start to go down that road. >> how many locations were actually fired bullets. >> how many locations? >> again, that's under investigation. but we could say the same thing. probably say between five and seven, easily. that we've been able to identify. >> right. thus far. it's still under investigation. >> is there anything left behind by the suspect on the campus? >> there is evidence left on the scene, yes. >> other than weapons? >> that's under investigation. it's urnt investigation. >> do you know why he came to the campus?

if he had a connection to it at all? >> no. that's how we're getting it right now. yes. >> now, when do you plan to give an idea of the suspect? is there anymore information? >> we plan to have a press conference tomorrow morning, 10:00 a.m., in front of the santa monica police department. located at 333 olympic drive in the city of santa monica. we're hoping to be able to identify the suspect then and be able to put more of a nexus to this crime and what happened today. that is the goal. starting tomorrow and sunday, from 9:00 to 3:00, the santa monica college will be hosting counseling services. and then monday, from 9-5, and every day for the rest of the month, they'll be having counseling services for the students. >> ser jentd, there's dozens if not hundreds of students around the area that need to get their

keys, their cars, some of them live very far away. can you tell them when they'll be able to get their materials and get them to their car sns. >> unfortunately, because this is an active crime scene and we have everything kwaurn teened off, we don't know what is evidence and what is not and what has been affected by this incident. it won't be tonight. it will be sometime early morning. >> what was the purpose of the body? >> it was an on going scene. we had an active shooter. it was unknown if we had more than one shooter at the time. so both the victim from there and the suspect at the time were moved and taken out to where it would be more of a safe location. the goal is to obviously get medical help for everybody involved. and then they were able to move on and try to clear the library and see if there were more victims inside and if they needed help. >> three people with minor

injuries. that's what we have right now. you know, we're hoping that number doesn't go up. but there's some people unaccounted for. like i said, he was taken to the station and interviewed. he had lawful business to be here. he was released. he's not a suspect in this case. >> sergeant, he was a huge number of coroner vehicles that have shown up now. i take it the gunman is still there being processed. why so many vehicles? are they going through each shot as well? or why so many coroner vehicles? >> no, we have four fatalities within the city. they all came down at once. there will be a detail to the different locations that they need to go to. when they're ready for them so that accounts for that. they handle the bodies. and as far as the crime scene

shell casings, we have our agencies working on that. none of the bodies that are here have been removed. >> sergeant, you lean toward one critical and the one who was serious but stable, where was that person? >> that was a vehicle that was driving in the 2000 block of yorkshire and the suspect opened fire on her, as well. serious but stable. >> we all get so accustomed to seeing these sorts of scenes. but this one was different in that it was so many different scenes. just what was it like for you guys trying to respond to this. and how quickly -- how did it -- how long before -- 12:55 or 12:52 it starts at one house. how long before you guys were able to catch up with this person and actually confront him? >> this subject was confronted

within a matter of minutes. there wasn't an on going gun battle, so to speak, with the supt. the whole event was probably over in 10 minutes or less. so i can't confirm that until i go back and look at time lines. >> so by the time he left the house, ten minutes? gh for that suspect to encounter, probably. maybe a little longer or shorter, but that's just an estimate! the suspect, he's the one that started the fire at the house then? >> well, the captain will want to talk about that. >> he seems like he was prepared to go after everything else. are you looking at this as being premeditated? >> we'll let the captain address that. >> as far as the fire scene goes, that's currently under investigation. we can't determine if that was set by the suspected at this time. >> a suspicious fire? >> it's suspicious in nature, but we're investigating to find out the exact cause of it. captain jason wells.

j-a-s-o-n, w-e-l-l-s. >> did he talk to anybody on a web page saying this is what he was going to do? >> this investigation is way too early. that's something i have no knowledge of. is that comes to light, you will know it sometime. but as of now, we won't know that. >> it looks as though this was premeditated in someway. he was all dressed up ready for battle. >> gent, we don't know what sparked this incident. if it happened ten minutes before. >> do you know when the first -- >> it's a horrible event that everybody wishes never happened. until we get further, we can't speak to that, i'm sorry. >> when did the first call come into santa monica police and how quickly were you guys able to start tracking where this guy was and trying to stop him? was it before he got to the campus? >> our nifirst call came in arod 11:52 this morning.

that came from the 2500 block of kansas where smrn was hearing shots fired. as our officer was responding, more calls came in. when they got there, they find a house that's engulfed in fire. that's how it started to roll out. >> and are you guys getting rolling 9-1-1 calls at that point? with the bus and the building and then a car and then another carjacking? >> we get additional calls. this is fairly close proximity and you are using the rifle, it e it's very loud. they're hearing gunshots. we also had another agency that was rolling through our city on other business that heard gunshots being fired as well. so we started to get it from numerous sources. >> about what time was this? >> we're going to wait for the

coroner for all of that. but it was both men and women. >> any indication that the s.w.a.t. incident was related to this? >> sentinal and palms is an area of interest for us. we went there as a residence check. it did check out okay. there are no victims there. there could be some linkage to this incident, as far as the suspect is concerned. we are there at the location. and i'm sure that that's something -- some search warrants may be served on at some point. >> forgive me: i want to make sure i understand, 11:52, the call comes in. 12, 15 minutes later, he's here on campus and you guys are confronting him. >> that may be a little bit long. but this part of the event is in.

>> did you want to do that part? >> all right, unfortunately, we're going to end now. this will be the last update or conference that we have. again, 10:00 tomorrow morning, we will have another official press conference, hopefully, with a few others up here to give you some additional information. thank you. >> so there you have it from sergeant richard lewis, santa monica police department. he's advised the numbers, four victims confirmed dead. a fifth person, the suspected shoot shoot shooter also dead. he said there's one person in critical condition right now. three minor injuries, one adigszal person in serious but stable condition. the person earlier who had been picked up, a person of interest as it was described, was detained he was questioned and

released. they do believe that there was a single gunman involved in this particular mass shooting. he has not yet been identified, but that's the latest of the santa monica police department. there's other breaking news happening only this very, very busy etching. we'll take a quick break. we'll get to the other important news when we come back. ♪ ♪ chances are, you're not made of money, so don't overpay for boat insurance. geico, see how much you could save.

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all right, this is breaking news happening tonight as well, a jet blue flight has just landed safely, safely at newark

liberty airport after reportedly being struck by lightning. port authority spokesman ron marceka tells cnn that the flight, flight 425 was originally diverted to j.f.k. airport after reportedly being struck by lightning but eventually made a safe landing. that's just coming in. there's another important story we're following on cnn. spying consumes president obama's high stakes summit with china as president obama kicked off his two-day meeting with a new chinese president. he made clear he plans to confront chi about china's alleged cyber attacks. >> the united states seeks an international economy where nations are playing by the same rules, where trade is free and fair. and where the united states and china work together to address issues like cyber security and the protection of intellectual

property. but at the same time, president obama finds himself defending spying right here at home. in the last 48 hours, we've learned the federal government is collecting details only phone calls made in the united states. the government is also tapping into internet providers like apple, facebook, google and microsoft. and according to the wall street journal, u.s. spy agencies are even collecting data on you from your credit card companies. our chief correspondent is traveling right no with the president of palm springs. how is he handling the fact to address some of these very, very sensitive issues even as he's meeting with the new leader of china? >> wolf, the president was answering new questions about cyber security just as i was coming out here to speak with you. he said that cyber terrain is new terrain. these are new technologies and new standards that need to be

set up between the u.s. and china around the globe. it was not just unique to the relationship with the world's other largest economy. but particularly true there. he said these are in his words, unchartered with thors. he said we need both new rules and new standards. he said the ugs and china are setting up a working group. well, that's international diplomatic speak for establishing new guidelines between the two countries 245 lay out agreements for how we will both work on respecting one oolt's interknelt property and intellectual property, at least officially. but you know the u.s. is accused of stealing huge amounts of intellectual properties from u.s. companies and we are going to see whether any of that is going to be acknowledged by

china or agreements will be made to stop anything like that. i should point out, wolf, the president made a distinction between what they say is china's intellectual property and the debate going on here at home over the nsa eavesdropping. he says that is an internal debate about government and the u.s. citizens privacy and those are two very distinct things. theft of intellectual property hurts our business interest at home. the other is a matter for debate by american citizens, wolf. >> and the president, earlier, has made a very, very passionate defense of that eavesdropping defensing it very, very strongly, even though they face some very, very severe criticism coming in. not just from elements on the right. other important news we're following here tonight. still to come, we have a break in the case of those letters filmed with ricin sent to the president of the united states. the mayor of new york now, an

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letters to president obama and new york city mayor michael bloomberg. >> reporter: wolf, it is a bizarre, sordid tale. for the last week, a northeast texas couple has been at the center of the ricin letter investigation. and now, investigators say it is an angry wife who was trying to frame her husband. investigators in a federal court building. f.b.i. officials say richardson has been charged with mailing a threatening communication to the president of the united states. in her hometown of new boston, texas, neighbors know this redhead as shannon richardson. but in hollywood, she's known as shannon guess. an actress who's appeared in minor roles on television shows like the walking dead and vampire diaries. it appears there was quite an act and tried to frame her husband in this real-life drama. according to court documents,

richardson met with authorities to say her husband had mailed three ricin-laced letters. the arrest warrant placed caster beans in the trunk of her husband's car to ensure that he would be apprehended. investigators descended on the couple's home. from the beginning, investigators were suspicious of her story and now believe it was shannon richardson, not her husband, who mailed the letters, which contained an ominous threat. you will have to kill me and my family before you get my guns. the right to bear arms is my god given right. what's in this letter is nothing compare today what i've got for you. >> i've got more danger from

lightning than from anything else. i'll go about my business chlts we're certainly going to keep guns off the streets, out of the hands of criminals and people with mental problems. >> shannon richard son is now in custody and her husband filed for divorce on thursday. court documents site "discourt or conflict of personalities as the reason for the break-up. >> in these court doms, investigators say that shannon richardson did confess to mailing the letters. but she does say that it was her husband who typed them out and then forced her to mail them. and to make matters even more complicated, shannon richardson is preg nant and the couple is expecting their first child in october. wolf? >> what a story. this one is very, very bizarre. we'll take a quick break. we'll be right back. vo: traveling you definitely end up meeting a lot more people but

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