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from tucker carlson on this? >> no, neither carlson nor fox news responded to our requests for comments. this is a subject they would like to put behind them. there's no overt sign of backing away from the argument that's been forwarded so many times on his show, to say the nation was founded on white, christian values and as long as everyone fits into that, we can be a multidimensional, multicultural nation, which other groups say is not the point at all. >> thanks so much. thanks for joining us. "ac-360" starts now. good evening, we begin with breaking news tonight. for the last eight hours authorities in and around atlanta have been looking for a suspect in a mass shooting at a medical facility that killed one woman and wounded four others.
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he's in custody. gary, what have we learned? >> reporter: just about ten minutes ago, a police officer here in cobb county, georgia, said the alleged gunman is under arrest. this gated community behind me in smyrna, georgia, northwest of the shootings, waterford place, there are police cars behind the gates. we were following them as we arrived. about five minutes down the road we saw the police cars zooming by. we followed them here, a police officer was sitting outside here. i asked him what was going on, he told me we have apprehended the suspect alive, no shootout, it appears he surrendered peacefully. there were about 100 police officers and s.w.a.t. vehicles next to the park where the
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atlanta braves play baseball. they're on the road tonight. the boundary, there are shops, restaurants and theaters next to the stadium. full of s.w.a.t. vehicles and police officers looking for the suspect. earlier in the day, the car believed this man hijacked was found in a parking lot in the battery area and police asked the people in the area where it was parked if they saw him. a woman i talked to said the officer told her we have video from a camera nearby showing him leaving the car and walking through an apartment complex next to us. apparently crossed this busy street in cobb county, georgia, 670,000 population, northwest of atlanta, and is apprehended inside this fence. we're waiting for him to come out but it appears that this chase for this man, looking for him, is all over. he's under arrest. >> good news, gary. we got word that the police are
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giving a press conference at 8:15, we'll bring that to you. ryan young is where the shooting happened. it's been an incredible busy and chaotic day for law enforcement. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely, it has, anderson. what we were told early on, this man appeared here to get medical attention with his mother and at some point he became agitated and starting shooting inside this complex. there were nurses and patients running for their lives. they were locking doors. they were immediately aware of the situation, you can see that apd put out a great description photo. man. they tried to shut down the parking lots so he couldn't get out, but he did carjack someone and it took place while he was rushing toward cobb county. all day long we've been talking to sources about what they did to minimize the shooting scene, in terms of the impact of it
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all. dozens of people were calling 911 when it happened. as we moved through the situation, we knew they were arresting some people they thought looked just like the suspect. then we learned the man was a member of the military, served in the coast guard for some time, and was agitated with the medical care he was receiving. they came to this facility for help and something went sideways on the inside and that shooting started. it's been all-out effort all day, roads shut down and massive manhunt using camera networks throughout the city to try to locate this man. people have been shaken all day long. this is a busy area, hundreds were here on lockdown through the day, trying to figure out what happened. we have to think of the patients rushed to the hospital. one woman was killed and two people in surgery in critical condition with other people shot as well. this has been a day people have been talking about quite some time in terms of the lockdown
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and knowing that the man carjacked someone and went to cobb county. >> ryan young, appreciate it. we'll bring in john miller to find out more information. but former atlanta mayor is joining us now, and a cnn law enforcement analyst and former fbi deputy director. andrew, what is your reaction to the suspect being apprehended? >> obviously it's a great result. this is what you hope for in a manhunt, to find the person you're looking for before they hurt anybody else and take them into custody without firing a shot. will be interesting to hear what the police have to say about how they finally identified his location in that neighborhood we just saw gary pointing to. a lot of things to listen to there. but i have to tell you, there is no way to describe the intensity of what it's like to be involved
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in or overseeing a manhunt like this. having done it a few times in my own career, including a search after the boston bombing, you just live from one second to the next, going from one piece of information to the next. and it's an absolute, singular focus. it's a great accomplishment for these folks on the ground in atlanta to have gotten this person back. >> john miller is here as well. john, a great result, but what a frenetic day trying to figure out where he was. >> another tragic day, a life lost, people wounded and a city charged with terror during this hunt not knowing where a gunman was. but in the end they were very careful, understanding this was a person on edge, who was distraught, who was armed and dangerous. to try and go through this with a plan that would come to an
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ending that would be as safe as possible for him, for law enforcement, and to bring some kind of justice without getting into another shootout. after the carjacking of that vehicle, that was recovered in cobb county, they fanned out in that area and did something interesting, started to withdraw uniformed people away and put plainclothes people into the area, on foot and unmarked cars. on the idea if he wasn't seeing police everywhere, he might pop out somewhere. not exactly sure how that happened, but between atlanta pd, cobb county pd and u.s. marshals task force, they encountered him. >> we're seeing police cars coming out of the facility where we believe he was apprehended. >> a lot of law enforcement
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agencies, but it ended as safely as something that started this way could end. >> mayor bottoms, the city is breathing a sigh of relief after the hours of manhunt. >> absolutely. this has had everyone as you can imagine on edge all day. i describe atlanta as a big small town, so many people are connected. i have a friend who was in the medical office earlier today, i know the woman who runs that medical practice. there was a lot of personal concern. it was reminiscent of the courthouse shooting a few years ago, brian nicholls on the run, shot several people in the courthouse and then killed someone in the following days. you couldn't help but think about that today. i certainly thought about it as i had to leave home to pick up my kids today. >> andrew, you talked about the
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hunt for the brothers in the boston bombing. i just watched a documentary about that. it was remarkable to relive that and realize in a case like this, police must get so much conflicting information from the public, i think i saw somebody here and you don't know what you don't know, you have to follow up all those leads. >> absolutely right. one of the challenges for law enforcement on a day like today is you ask for the public's assistance, try to crowd source your intelligence collection in a way, and what you get is a lot of information, a lot of tips, most not relevant, but you have to go through every single one. to sort through them quickly and effectively takes an enormous amount of people focused on the same objective. every place that police, boots on the ground, have to go to search, they never know if
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they'll come across somebody who was killing people earlier in the day. they have to be careful and deliberate and be safe doing that. it's a challenging set of circumstances for the law enforcement folks. >> gary tuchman is standing by. remind the viewers what we're looking at on the side of the screen, we're seeing a number of police vehicles and unmarked vehicles leaving the scene where this person -- yes, i know -- where the person was captured. gary, i don't know if you can hear me. are these live pictures? okay. we're looking at live pictures. you can see gary tuchman there on the side, the gray-haired guy trying to talk to authorities. he's out of range. we'll try to go back but he's trying to gather information. he talked to a police officer 15 minutes or so ago, learned that
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they had in fact apprehended them. you can see other people on the other side of the road giving the thumbs up to law enforcement as they drive by. john, what goes into a manhunt like this? you talked about the different agencies involved, but coordinating all those agencies, when you have so many police officers descending on an area, it can cause problems. >> it can, you don't want a blue on blue situation, which is why plainsclothes people in one area can cause confusion. this was well coordinated. i echo andy mccabe, every manhunt is different. the chelsea bomber, we had his name, his picture and rush hour coming up. and we had a guy targeting train stations. we blasted that out to the
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public on the same system you use when they say there's a storm coming, on the idea we could hit every phone within 50 miles. think of last year, just a little more than a year ago, in new york city with frank james who shot up the subway, wounded ten people. thank god didn't kill anybody. we were able to identify him by a piece of paper he left behind. and we did the same thing atlanta did. the minute we had his picture we pushed it out with his name and as andy mccabe said, crowdsource him. i can have 8.4 million people looking for him. atlanta did a great job using the pictures from the video at the scene. wearing a hood and mask, hard to identify, but they got to his driver's license photo, said this is what he looks like without a mask and you'll probably recognize him. >> gary tuchman is standing by. we saw you trying to talk to
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people. did you hear anything? what did you see? >> reporter: yeah, i was talking to the police officers, most of them from the cobb county police department. if the suspect is in one of the cars and going to the police station, they say he's still inside the waterford place apartment complex in smyrna, georgia, 11 miles north of midtown atlanta. around 30 vehicles came out. there are still some inside. i counted 100 police vehicles two blocks to the south. that was the report that police got from video cameras. they saw this man go into an apartment complex under construction. that was a few blocks away. they got a tip that a suspicious man was inside this apartment complex, the waterford place complex in this upscale neighborhood in cobb county.
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that's where they found him and where he still is as we speak. >> as i said to viewers, we're anticipating a press conference in a minute or two, 8:15, we were told. we'll bring it to you live. mayor bottoms, the atlanta police chief said that cameras were instrumental in helping track the suspect and track the license plates. can you talk about that? >> it's an intricate camera network, atlanta is the center of a very large metropolitan area. the great thing is, there's often coordination with law enforcement, even in the city of atlanta itself. in the midtown area, you have the georgia state university police, georgia tech police. atlanta police, georgia state patrol, several different agencies, and when you expand,
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fulton county sheriff's office. cobb county. we host large events in atlanta like the super bowl, we often coordinate and work together. it doesn't surprise me there was immediate coordination and joint effort because this area is right near the main interstate, 75 to 85, that runs through downtown atlanta. you can jump on easily from that location and head north into cobb county. so it's an intricate, very expansive camera network in and around the city, and also great coordination, constant coordination with law enforcement through the metropolitan area. >> we have been told the press conference has slid a few minutes. we're going to take a quick break. we expect to hear from atlanta police about the capture of this shooter tonight. stay with us.
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company handled surveillance video for mar-a-lago. the grand jury is expected to hear from the father and son executives at the trump organization, matthew calamari sr and jr. >> we were able to confirm it is clear that prosecutors are asking questions about the handling of surveillance tapes. conversations that would have taken place about the surveillance tapes at a time when the justice department wanted access to them. talking about surveillance tapes at mar-a-lago in florida that would have been owned by the trump organization, donald trump's resort. tapes that the justice department was demanding they see last year as they were looking at whether there were documents being kept in florida. they sent a subpoena for those
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tapes and now we know the prosecutors are looking at that episode of time, before the fbi went in to search the property. on those tapes they were able to see boxes being moved. but the questions now are the tapes themselves. just another leg of this investigation and there is going to be grand jury activity tomorrow where the two men, father and son, are expected to testify to the grand jury. >> their names have cropped up on and off the last years. remind the viewers about the role they play in the trump organization? >> these are two senior people, very close to donald trump and his business empire. they're working out of new york. matthew calamari sr is the chief operating officer who became a person of interest in the new york investigation around the trump organization and their
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business dealings. his lifestyle, apartment and car is subsidized by the trump organization, and his son is the director of security for the trump organization. they clearly would be responsible for the surveillance tapes owned by the organization. and ultimately were turned over to the justice department. >> cnn previously reported that another close aide to the former president was seen on camera moving boxes containing documents out of a mar-a-lago storage closet, but this is a separate inquiry into how the surveillance footage itself was handled, right? >> right. we that person travels with donald trump often. this might have a connection. he was seen on the surveillance tapes moving boxes with another employee of donald trump's in mar-a-lago, and we know that the
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calamaris, one of the things they're being asked about is conversations with people in the trump world. we were able to confirm there was at least a text message between him and senior that was part of this portion of the inquiry. there's a lot of potential obstruction cases that the justice department is investigating and the special counsel is looking at. this is another leg of the case. >> thanks for joining me. how big a deal is it to look into this issue? >> this tells me that prosecutors are squarely focused on potential obstruction of justice. it's important to understand why the surveillance video is so important, the underlying case about the handling of the documents depends where they were stored, where were the boxes, who had access and were they moved.
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this video footage would be the best evidence of that. one important detail from the reporting, this is a new round of subpoenas. prosecutors, what they already gathered, saw something about this footage that said hang on, there's a problem. now we need to dig into this. >> what evidence would the special counsel need for a special round of subpoenas? >> something that indicated some of the footage was tampered with or withheld. what types of evidence, the testimony from the two individuals we've been talking about will be crucial to figure out who downloaded and accessed that footage. who was responsible for turning it over to doj and is there a gap there. >> how concerned would the former president be about them going in front of the grand jury tomorrow? >> as the reporting reminds us, they're insiders in the trump org. but they've shown they're loyal
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as we wait for atlanta police to talk about the shooting suspect there. we go to moscow. the reported strike on the kremlin is almost unimaginable given the security around it. some sort of projectile seems to explode around the domed roof. russia said it was a drone strike, blame ukraine, who has denied it. and american officials have done the same privately to the white house, explicitly according to the individuals. matthew chance has some reporting on another theory. he's in london. >> astonishing pictures. tonight a former russian lawmaker saying this wasn't the work of ukraine or a false flag
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operation but the work of partisan russian groups fighting the russian state. take a listen. is this the moment russia's war in ukraine finally struck home? two drone attacks on the kremlin, minutes apart, leaving smoke billowing from the historic buildings and an extraordinary scene of vulnerability at the heart of the russian state. it was hours before kremlin controlled tv announced the news in the form of an official statement blaming ukraine. last night the kyiv regime attempted a drone strike against the residence of the president of the russian federation, the statement reads. we view these actions as a planned terrorist attack and an assassination attempt. adding that russia reserves the right to take countermeasures wherever and whenever it deems
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appropriate. amid calls in russia for an overwhelming military response, ukraine's president, visiting finland, is distancing his country from the incident. >> we don't attack putin or moscow. we fight on our territory. we are defending our villages and cities. we don't have, you know, enough weapons for this. >> it's more likely a false flag operation, or local resistance in russia than ukrainian officials responsible for this. recent weeks and days have seen an upsurge in unexplained attacks inside russian territory. like this train derailment near the ukrainian border. or this key oil storage facility in southern russia near annexed crimea, set ablaze also using a
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drone, causing significant disruption. one former russian lawmaker in exile linked with groups operating in russia tells cnn the work is of russian partisans. >> some are focused on railroad sabotage, some military force, some attacks on pro-war activities, some hacking attacks. >> are any of the partisans supported by the ukrainian special services? ukraine says it's got nothing to do with this attack. do you believe that claim? >> ukrainians have nothing to do with this because it's organized by russians. >> whoever is responsible is a threat. at the moment, preparations are continuing for the annual may the 9th victory day parade in red square near where the drones struck. but the weakness and insecurity
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of the kremlin has now been exposed for all to see. >> joining matthew chance now, cnn national security man steve hall, formerly of the cia. how stunning is it to see the explosions and who do you think is to blame. >> it's extraordinary and the reporting is fascinating. you have to ask who benefits and i would cast doubt on the idea it's russians themselves. false flag thing. they don't need any excuse to do what they're doing in ukraine. ukrainians or partisan or guerilla forces inside. the services there spend so much time tracking down people like that. they would benefit sowing fear before the celebrations for the
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end of world war ii, and causing fear is a big deal as well. my money is one of the last two options. >> is there any indication of an investigation by the russians who is responsible for this? >> look, if it isn't a false flag operation, i imagine the russian security forces are working overtime to get to the bottom of how on earth they missed this. whether this was the ukrainians or a partisan group, whatever else, this has really exposed the gaping holes in russian security. in the days ahead, six days before the victory day parade, which is going to be held in exactly that spot where the drones struck, there will be serious questions asked tonight, if this is real, of the russian security forces of what went
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wrong. >> there's been targeted assassinations, daughter of a pro-putin war supporter, the train derailment. has anyone proven that ukraine has capabilities to operate deep inside russia? >> i don't know if anyone has publicly but i imagine they know what their capabilities are. we've seen things inside russia and crimea that seem to make sense for ukrainians. but the gap of security, there is also a gap in society in russia if you have a guerilla operation working against the kremlin, that doesn't map often and has to send a chill down the spine of putin and those in the kremlin if it is true. >> there's a history of partisans in the pre soviet union days and such, the idea of
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it today, does that ring true to you? >> i mean, you're right, it's hard to get your head around. a society so controlled as russia, the idea of hundreds if not thousands of people operating as partisan groups carrying out attacks against the russian state is difficult to comprehend. and would be and is i expect a major concern for the kremlin. nevertheless, we're seeing a series of unexplained incidents. attacks on army recruitment centers, assassinations of semi political figures, pro-russia propaganda figures, attacks on oil installations and drone attack on the kremlin, someone is doing these, can't all be false flags. there are individuals, russians
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or backed by ukrainian special services or something. operating in russia, it's pretty clear. >> thank you. we await to hear from police in atlanta about the mass shooting arrest. the "new york times" says they have a text message after the january 6th attack from tucker carlson with racist comment. we'll talk to the reporter who helped break the s story next. n and enterprise contrtrol, vmware helps you innovate and grow. (water splashing) hey, dad... hum... what's the ocean like? ♪ are there animals living underwater?
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police in atlanta are still expected to hold a press conference shortly on the arrest tonight in today's mass shooting. other news, the "new york times" has obtained a text message sent from tucker carlson to a producer after the rioters stormed the capitol. said it was part of the chain of events that led to his firing. i'll read it. a couple of weeks ago, this is from tucker carlson allegedly. i was watching video of people fighting in the street in washington. group of trump kids surrounded a antifa kid, it's not how white men fight but i found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they could hurt the
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kid, i could taste it. deep in my brain, an alarm went off. this isn't good for me, the antifa creep is a human being, much as i despise what he says and does, i shouldn't gloat over his suffering, i should be bothered by it. i should remember somebody probably loves this kid and would be crushed if he was killed. if i don't care about these things, how am i better than he is. i talked to one of the reporters earlier. jim, have you heard anyone inside or outside fox express surprise that according to that bombshell text message he used racist messages in the communications? saw some communications in the dominion filings, and the show has a history of violent speech. >> no one is surprised he would
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say this. everything we're told is the context of that moment. a jury is coming together in delaware, diverse background, dollars are at stake. tucker carlson, a fraction of the evidence in the case, is playing an outsized role. here is a text that's certain to inflame a jury. it's all in the context of what is happening at that moment, less so whatever you may or may not see on his show. >> is is it clear how much this message contributed to his firing and the settlement fox made with dominion? the negotiators for fox were already in settlement talks when the message was discovered. >> obviously a lot is going on at this moment and this is one thing. but the board is asking questions. there are shareholder lawsuits. the company at the same time doesn't want any of its stars to
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have to testify or be cross examined. doesn't want its founding chairman, rupert murdock, cross examined. lot of reasons to not want that. but this 11th hour finding coming to light in a series of talks that will result in a record settlement cost of $787.5 million. almost a billion dollars. so we know the context, we're told it's definitely adding to pressure, it's in the mix. i think a lot is going on at this moment. >> according to your reporting it came to light in the discovery process. why would fox lawyers not have alerted the fox board to something to incendiary? >> that's a question we still would like to know ourselves. this came up in deposition. the lawyers were already
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handling -- these materials get handed over, lawyers know they exist. we're trying to figure out why that is. but i'm told speaking to other lawyers in similar cases, things fall through, these things happen. let's find out. we're going to keep reporting to see who knew, who didn't, what role it played. as we have it, this comes to light on the board level late and it is coming to light at a critical time in these talks. >> extraordinary reporting, thank you so much. >> for more, cnn political commentator van jones, special adviser to president obama. saying it's not how white men fight, what goes through your mind? >> first of all, history shows that's exactly how white men fight, talk about the history of brutalization of people of color, ganging up on people, lynching people. so his history is wrong, but not
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just his history but his heart is wrong. this is a moment of private self-reflection, he's trying to pretend he's enlightened and even there he's a disgusting bigot and racist. he can't figure out that categorizing people the way he's categorizing them is wrong. so, you know, i think a lot of us hoped that the tucker carlson you saw on tv was more of an act for ratings. but this shows even in the privacy of his own home, talking to his friends, tucker carlson is a racist. he is a white supremacist. what is that? somebody who thinks that white people are superior to black people. he thinks the way that white people fight is superior to the way that black people fight. white men -- we engage in fisticuffs. >> that's the thing. idea that tucker carlson knows
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anything about fighting or been here a fight is ludicrous. >> pretty ludicrous. >> and the implication it's black people who gang up on poor individuals and white people fight like gentlemen with fisticuffs in london rules or whatever it's called. >> yeah. look, it gives you a sense of how deep the sickness goes. white supremacy is a term you rarely hear me say because it's incendiary term. but it has a meaning, it means i think white people and white culture is superior to non-white culture. here is an example of it. he honestly believes white people fight like fisticuffs and black people like savages and history shows the opposite. that's what we're dealing with. >> the casualness with which he said it, i don't know why i found it stunning but i did.
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does he say that to his kids? oh, honey, no, white people don't fight like -- how can he look at his family with that dirt in his mouth? >> it's a glitch in the matrix that is shocking and also confirming. if you're a person of color, you always feel like you're somehow being brainwashed or -- i forget the term. people tell you stuff is not true, when you know it must be true. and people like carlson on television and the massive movement behind him. two top republican voices in the country, this is how he thinks. so when you're sitting here, guys, i think there's something, i think racism and white supremacy is alive and well in the country, tell you you're being woke, shut up, what are you talking about, it's 100
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years ago. listen, tucker carlson thinks that white people fight in a more civilized way than black people. literally that's how he thinks. the history of lynching, white mob violence is a bigger source of terror in the history of this country than anything ever come out of the 9/11. that's the terror that black people lived under out of fear of white mob violence. that's the history of our country we're still trying to overcome. he somehow missed all of that. that's why i think this particular text probably did lead to a faster resolution of this case because this is the kind of stuff that's just disgusting without any -- there's no upside on this text. >> van jones, i appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. we still expect to hear from
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the police department and law enforcement have taken the suspect into custody. thanks to the police officers across our region we were able to bring the suspect into custody without further harm. he will be charged and stand trial for his crimes. not only did law enforcement bring this man into custody, they also kept our community
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safe during an enormously tense afternoon and evening. i want to thank our citizens for keeping calm, staying in place, and for providing critical information to law enforcement throughout the day. i'm going to turn it over to law enforcement to share an update, and i'll return to share a few additional remarks later. now to apd police chief darren sherrbomb. >> i want to thank the members of the press, you've played an important role today as we kept citizens in atlanta and cobb county informed and asked for their assistance for the apprehension of this dangerous perpetrator. thank you for updating the communities. the mayor spoke of a capable response, and i want the men and women of the atlanta police
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department to know, 911 center, first responding officers and tactical teams, how proud i am again of you on the work you've done today helping the city. you've shown what do daily for the member and women that call this city home. when you looked at views from the crime scene, you saw the atlanta police and various agencies that have trained that a day this tragedy could befall the city we would be ready. i tell you that first responder group was there for their city. georgia tech, georgia state, marshals, all were on scene quickly executing their active shooter protocol to stop the situation. and shortly joined by gbi, fbi,
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secret service and united states marshal service as we sought to bring the individual into custody. it showed us the perpetrator left the city and remained a threat elsewhere. we're a grateful city for your partnership, sheriff, and the efforts to take this individual into custody. this morning we celebrated the bravery of atlanta fire rescue. not far from here, their annual iteration of firefighters day. to see the paramedics and firefighters when we didn't know where the shooter was, could have been in the building, see them dismount the trucks and go into that situation. not the first time, because we did it in training over and over again. when it was necessary to save lives, we were proud of our strong partnership in that situation. thank you.
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deputy chief of criminal investigations will now recap what transpired today, what we learned and cthen the chief wil outline how his department apprehended the shooter today. >> good evening. what we do know, shortly before noon, the subject entered into 1110 west peach tree street and went to a medical center inside the building. it was shortly thereafter that he shot our first victim, then the first 911 call came after that. he spent about two minutes inside the building where he then exited on foot. and what we were able to pick up on the camera network system is he went to a shell gas station and commandeered a vehicle, a pickup truck that was left running, unattended, and he took
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that vehicle. we were able to again use video to obtain a tag and immediately place that into the license plate reader system. at that time we had to really do some work to figure out where he was at. there was a series of search warrants drafted here in atlanta and cobb county because we were getting information of residences and other locations he may go to. that was done as well. roughly around 12:30 we received an alert from the lpr system he was in cobb county. we were on the phone immediately with cobb to let them know that this individual was somewhere in their jurisdiction. as the chief said, we'll let chief van hoozier talk about what happened in his jurisdiction. we may not know exactly where he
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was, as soon as he was out of our area of responsibility, we contacted the local jurisdiction and the coordination took place. chief. >> good evening. i'm stewart van hoosier, the police chief of cobb county, north of atlanta. first i want to very much express our collective don driver's condolences to the people involved, the families affected by this. we saw what was going on on the news, we had heard through the networks what was going on in atlanta. when we discovered that the individual had last been
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identified on an lpr camera in our jurisdiction, we sent officers to that area and set up not so much a perimeter, but we began to look for the vehicle. i will be honest with you, first of all, let me apologize in advance, i have not prepared a statement, not had time to prepare a statement. what i'm giving you guys is not planned, i will probably make a few mistakes and ferret to thank some people. but what i can tell you is this, these are massively complex investigations. and information comes in so quickly, and it is so confusing and contradicting, that we find we are often trying to go three or four different places very quickly, each seeming to be the suspect. that was happening today. we had a fairly chaotic scene, we were called to various locations in that area about what appeared to be legitimate
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sightings of this individual. and there was some fear of course in the citizens in that area of course. so our officers were responding to those calls, and i will say this, if you rewind the hand of time four years, we probably would not be where we are today, right now. technology played a huge role, but technology doesn't do any good without people who are determined to capture and individual that would do something like this. and today we saw where those two things came together in an amazing way. nobody went home today, everybody stayed. we have a fairly new realtime crime center by a local company, flock is a fairly new, local company as well. we've partnered with both and they've brought us amazing tools. as has the other jurisdictions
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in the atlanta area. those tools are what really got us the clues we needed to make this successful, and the people that were getting the clues from the technology made this happen. so we had a lot of clues, enough from both the realtime crime center and flock to have a pretty good instinct on the calls coming in. we had checked a building we knew he had gone into and cleared that building and knew he was not in that building. that building was unoccupied, it was being built, very close to the park in the battery, which was concerning to us. that's many, many, many people would be in that location. so we were concerned about the safety of our community in general, but particularly that one. so the operators in our realtime crime center were fielding many of those calls and looking at
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them, trying to determine which seemed legitimate, which did not. most of that is a little bit of gut but also based on things we were seeing on the map and what made sense to the realtime operators. one in particular saw a 911 call come in, literally said i think this is going to be him, mostly instinct but a lot had to do with where the call was coming in, where this individual was supposed to be. that realtime operator commu communicated with a 911 operator in the command center with us, we prioritized that call on the radio and had officers, undercover and uniformed officers, i believe, if i have my facts correct, an undercover originally saw and confronted this individual and had backup from uniformed officers that came in and took him into custody without incident.
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i will -- i would and will forget some of the people and organizations to thank. but reiterate what the mayor and chief said, and there's no reason to go back into it. but it does not work without a cooperative community. a community that backs up the police. that allows the police to take risks and try to take violent people into custody. we have a very supportive community in cobb county, very supportive elected official group, and very supportive leadership. that's very, very important for us. we had great community members calling us and giving us information. we have a 911 center who shared data with us. >> you've been listening to atlanta police and cobb county law enforcement on the shooting and manhunt that just unfolded for nearly eight hours. the suspect that was wanted for the shooting of five in an atlant
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