this is "nightline." >> tonight, cake controversy. >> this is not about hate. this is about not creating a message and a government forcing me to. >> the baker who refused to make a cake for a gay wedding on religious grounds. >> it's about the right of people to receive equal service at a place of business that anyone else would. >> and the couple who says he violated their civil rights, making their cases to "nightline" just days ago. what they're saying now after supreme court ruling today. and the impact of the decision across the country. plus, revenge rampage. a four-day killing spree, multiple legal and mental health professionals murdered. today the suspect tracked down. >> the s.w.a.t. team filling the

hall. it was very quiet. >> what police found in his hotel room, and the grisly connection they discovered to his targets. and volcan defuego. the deadly eruption in guatemala. over 60 killed. new images of explosions in progress. but first the "nightline" 5.

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thanks for joining us. a supreme court ruling today that could have ripple effects for businesses and the lgbt community across the country. the justices siding with the christian baker who famously refused to create a wedding cake for a gay couple, saying his faith forbade it. today he is celebrating what he calls a victory for religious freedom, while the couple worries this could spark a nationwide backlash. jack phillips says he's not just a baker, he's an artist. >> part of it icing and piping. part of it is paintbrush. part of it is airbrush, create the leaves and the flowers. >> reporter: his canvas, takes like these. >> we paint on cakes. we sculpt cakes. we sketch cakes. design what we're going to do. >> reporter: deeply religious, phillips says his christian faith guides everything in his life. >> this one is a first out of first corinthians. stand firm, be strong and

immovable. always work enthusiastically for the lord. >> reporter: including his refusal to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple. >> that cake is that strong of a message in our culture. and marriage in general between a man and i woman across all cultures, religions, is an inherently religions event. >> reporter: that faith part of an epic legal clash between religious liberty and gay rights. all of which began when charlie craig and dave mullins walked into masterpiece cake shop in 2012. >> like any couple charlie and i were really excited to be getting married. >> reporter: same-sex marriage was still not legal in colorado. sought couple was planning to get married in massachusetts, followed by a reception back home near denver. >> and on this particular day when we were going to sample wedding cakes -- >> and when david and charlie came in we introduced ourselves, what can i do for you. we're here to look at wedding cakes. it's for our wedding p. >> it was a really special day because charlie's mom was in town. she does not live in denver. so she was particularly excited.

>> so i realized right then that this is not a cake that i'm going to be able to design and create for them. so i tried to apologize to them and say i'll sell you cookies, brownies, birthday cakes, anything else in my store. >> but we weren't in there for brownies for my birthday. we were in there because we needed a cake to serve at our reception. >> at which point they both jumped up, swore at me, stormed out of my shop. >> you know, charlie had a binder full of ideas and concepts. you know, but we never even got a chance to open the binder. >> you don't see it as an act of discrimination. >> i see it as an act of following my faith. it's not just a cake. it's an iconic. >> of a wedding. this is a religious ceremony that goes in direct conflict with my faith. >> when i realized exactly what had happened in the car, you know, i broke down and started crying. >> reporter: that one encounter at this unassuming cake shop in lakewood, colorado -- >> here's to your legal fee. >> reporter: -- propelled both

the cake baker and the couple into the center of a scorching national debate. that went all the way to the highest court in the land. and today in a 7-2 decision the supreme court ruled in favor of the baker. >> it's good for jack. it's good for businesses who want to run their businesses according to their convictions, whether they're christians, muslims, jews, secular, whatever the case might be. i think it's good for that. >> reporter: and celebrations erupted outside phillips's store. >> it's a good day to have cake. >> i'm very excited. >> reporter: craig and mullins say they were blindsided by the decision. >> the first emotions were just shock and disappointment. >> the bakery may have won the battle but it has certainly lost the war. the court really recognized today that deep harms of discrimination and those harms apply equally when it comes to lgbt people. >> reporter: we were in doll colle colorado just last week only days before today's far-reaching decision. for mullins and craig even over five years later that brief interaction still stings. >> i was mortified.

i mean, neither one of us had ever been treated this way before at a business. >> reporter: dejected and furious, the couple posted about their experience on facebook. >> we wrote just a small modest post that said hey, we were discriminated against at this cake shop. >> reporter: the post went viral. >> we received this outpouring of support from people literally around the world. >> reporter: encouraged by the public response, the couple filed a complaint with the colorado civil rights commission. colorado is one of 21 states that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. colorado's civil rights commission ruled in favor of the couple. describing the baker's refusal based on his religious beliefs as one of the most despicable pieces of rhetoric. that decision was upheld by the colorado court of appeals. >> it made us feel like we were valued members of our community. >> it's not about hate. this is about not creating a message and a government forcing

me to. >> because people have called you a bigot. >> i'm not. i serve everybody who comes in my store. i just don't create cakes -- every cake that people ask me to create. >> reporter: as part of the ruling the commission ordered phillips to retrain his employees and serve everyone wedding cakes regardless of sexual orientation. so he stopped making wedding cakes altogether. >> and here is a sample of the brownie. >> reporter: his refusal, he says, cost him 40% of his business and worse. >> we've had death threats. we've had e-mails, phone calls. our lives have been turned upside down. >> reporter: aided by the alliance defending freedom, a christian advocacy organization, phillips petitioned the supreme court to take his case. >> we were asking the court to look at it as creative professionals. should they be forced to violate the first amendment, or deeply held religious beliefs to create art that violates those beliefs? which is more important? >> reporter: saying the state of colorado violated his first

amendment rights of freedom of religion and speech. >> and there's the slippery slope of does this chip away at other artisans, whether it's a jeweler or a makeup artist or others who would then have the ability to essentially boycott gay marriages? >> i think that the supreme court is looking at all that. those were good questions that they asked. in my case, however, that's not an issue. what i do, i paint on cakes. i sculpt cakes. it's clearly art. it's clearly protected. >> this isn't about a cake. it's about the right of people to receive equal service at a place of business that anyone else would. >> reporter: the news that the court would take up the case was a shock to everyone involved. the weight of both movements sitting squarely on their shoulders. >> i know it's hard to predict how you will feel, but if it came down in your favor how would you react? >> i would be probably overjoyed.

>> couldn't you create a generic wedding cake that would be available for anyone who walked in and then customized for certain people, or is that against the -- >> that would be sidestepping the issue. that's still the government forcing me to create cakes for ceremonies that go against my faith. >> i think sadness and fear over what the future will look like for people based on this precedent. >> so this was a 7-2 decision, but there was actually a lot of disagreement even among the justices who agreed with the outcome in the case. justice anthony kennedy wrought opinion for the court. the only dissenting justices were justice ruth bader ginsburg and sonia sotomayor. >> reporter: today's ruling a narrow victory for religious rights advocates. at least four justices affirming gay rights but ruling in favor of the baker because ironically they say it was he who faced anti-religious bias, calling out the colorado commission's language as disrespectful and hostile towards his sincere religious beliefs. >> i think it's hard to know just reading the opinion what it's going to mean kind of on

the ground in practice. coming out of this i think we know that it's important for state officials to approach these kinds disputes respectful of the claims on all sides. >> reporter: lgbtq groups including glaad worry this ruling could open the floodgates for victory. >> we must love and support one another! >> reporter: hiding behind religious exemptions. >> you're well aware that history, historically, businesses have used religious exemptions to deny service to african-americans at hotels or restaurants or -- >> i can't answer for that. all i can say is that's not my belief at all. >> there's no question that opponents of lgbt equality will and already have seized on today's opinion as standing for far more than it does. this indicaticase was never abo and we know our opposition won't stop. >> reporter: at the cake shop today the mood was celebrately. but dave mullins and charlie craig say the fight for equal

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witnesses say they heard dr. steven pitt, a world-renowned forensic psychiatrist, arguing with someone outside his phoenix office. gunshots soon ringing out. the 59-year-old left dead on the ground. less than 24 hours later police respond to 911 calls at a scottsdale law office where two paralegals had also been shot. one of the women, veleria sharp, managing to crawl outside to this bus, asking a driver to call 911. >> she is bleeding from her face. she says she thought she may be dying. >> reporter: and dying at the hospital soon after. authorities followed her trail of blood, leading them inside the office, where they found laura anderson, who was pronounced dead at the scene. a day later just after midnight, psychologist and hypnotherapist marshall levine was found dead from two gunshot wounds inside his scottsdale office. these murders occurring within a 30il radius. police saying jones used the

same gun for all of the murders. >> we again had a match linking the homicide to the others. >> reporter: yesterday, after surveillance evidence placed the shooter near the residence, officials went to this fountain hills neighborhood. >> they used a ladder. they got to see through an upstairs window. and they immediately recognized that there was a gentleman inside that appeared to have been shot. they forced entry, and upon doing so found another victim, a woman, who had also been shot. and both were deceased. >> reporter: and now police are saying this almost all of these horrific crimes were linked to one event -- jones' acrimonious divorce from his ex-wife, dr. connie jones, a texas-based radiologist. court records showed that his ex-wife filed for divorce in 2009. jones had been charged with assault days earlier. he had pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. records show his wife sought an order of protection and psychiatric evaluations were requested for jones.

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family." officials say the hypnotherapist marshall levine was collateral damage who simply shared an office with another therapist involved in the divorce proceedings. >> you do wonder is this a disgruntled client of mine that was looking for me? i mean, i doubt, it but it can could be. >> reporter: the shooter also allegedly post aid series of videos before his rampage maligning his ex-wife and dr. pitt. >> the reason killers post things online knowing that they're probably going to be dead when we see them is this is always about glory. glory of taking charge. glory of feeling powerful. >> reporter: the shooter's ex-wife and her lawyer both called in tips to police identifying jones as a possible suspect. >> it was his dna on those shell casings that took us through all those scenes. we had that proof, and we knew that he was our suspect and murderer. >> reporter: officials tracked him down to this extended stay america hotel and began

surveilling him sunday afternoon before deciding to move in early monday. >> i stay on the third floor. >> reporter: this eyewitness was staying at the hotel when she heard it was being evacuated. >> when i left the room, there was a bunch of s.w.a.t. team filling the hall and said be very quiet. so i was escorted. >> reporter: s.w.a.t. teams swarmed. the suspect then opened fire. >> we have the hotel locked down and there's been shots fired. >> somewhere between seven and eight rounds were fired. all officers were safe and okay. >> there are shots on the interior of the unit. >> reporter: when they found jones, he had apparently committed suicide. >> it's terrifying. >> yeah, it is. >> reporter: investigators still say they're poring over all aspects of the shooter's life. >> we're taking our time and making sure that we don't miss anything and that we give these victims and their families the justice that they deserve. >> reporter: tonight law enforcement is being credited with likely saving the lives of

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marshall tuck. and finally tonight, guatemala's volcan de fuego, living up to its name. abc's victor oquendo is there. >> reporter: the urgent search for survivors continues into the night in guatemala. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: the fuego volcano erupting sunday, spewing rock and ash. lava barreling down the side of the volcano, upwards of 100 miles per hour, at temperatures of 1300 degrees. panicked residents, even police, desperately trying to escape. the death toll is staggering. more than 65. that number is expected to rise. "we lost three of our family members. my two brothers and my nephew."

but there are signs of hope. rescuers still finding people alive, pulling them from the ash. including miraculously this baby wrapped in a blanket. as others begin the long cleanup process, sweeping layers of ash away from homes, driveways, and rooftops. for "nightline" i'm victor oquendo in antigua, guatemala. >> and the cleanup is just getting started. thanks for watching "nightline." and as always, we're online at our "nightline" facebook page. good night, america.

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