boom. >> reporter: phoenix police have identified the now deceased suspect as 40-year-old mario edward garnett. >> at this point, i cannot tell you what his relationship is to phoenix or even to arizona, because we have absolutely no record of mr. garnett in our city, and we have found none in our state. >> reporter: the fbi says the crime spree began monday morning when a man tried to rob an atlanta bank and failed. authorities believe he then went to mississippi where he held up a bank and got caught in a gun fight with police, shooting two officers. one of those officers, gayle stauffer, died. the suspect wasn't spotted again until saturday in phoenix. that's when police say he robbed a bank and fired at an officer. >> the officer was trying to retreat and take cover. at that point, the officer fired at the suspect. >> reporter: garnett was killed. no one else was hurt. officials say cell phone records confirm the suspect was in atlanta, tupelo and phoenix at the time of the robberies. >> this investigation is not over. all of the evidence gathered by investigators following the phoenix rob

when police responded, 40-year-old mario edward garnett emerged from the bank with a bag of money and a handgun. police say he threw the bag into a rental car and opened fire on officers. >> i heard five explosion kind of like a big flat tire. >> reporter: what did it sound like? >> they sounded like boom, boom. >> reporter: steve lopez lives across the street. a detective working near the bank shot garnett who was pronounced dead near the scene. it wasn't until the fbi come paired his formal clothing, statements, and cell phone records that they realized a nationwide crime spree had come to an end. it started sunday morning when garnett tried to hold up a bank of america in atlanta. after failing to get money from the teller he robbed a person at the atm machine in the bank lobby. six hours later and 300 miles from atlanta surveillance video show him robbing a bank in tupelo, mississippi. when officers pursued him there was a shoot-out killing corporal gale stauffer, wounding officer david maher. he turned up 50 miles way in phoenix. on friday hundreds of mourners lined the streets o

police identified the deceased suspect as 40-year-old mario edward garnett. police say he had a history of mental problems and was arrested in 2010 for making threats against president obama. >> there are numerous leads which we must continue to follow and questions which we must answer. >> the fbi says it started last monday morning when a man attempted to rob a bank in atlanta. authorities say they believe that man then went to mississippi where he held up a bank and killed a police officer. investigators say cell phone records confirm garnett was in all three locations during the time of those robberies. >>> san francisco police are searching for a gunman in a deadly weekend shooting. it happened right across from the movie theater on post street just before 2:00 sunday morning. police say the victim, a 36- year-old man from modesto was leaving a nearby nightclub when someone opened fire. investigators are asking for any witnesses to come forward. >>> marijuana dispensaries in colorado are making their final preparations for the legal sale of recreational

we are learning he served time for threatening the president in 2010. 40-year-old mario edward garnett was shot by a detective on saturday as he left the phoenix bank with a bag of cash. >> when this suspect started firing on our officer, the detective had arrived and he saw this occurring. at that point, he pulled his service weapon and he fired upon the suspect, striking him in the upper body and the suspect went down. >> the fbi says garnett is suspected in a whole week-long robbery spree that spanned from georgia to arizona. he got into a shoot-out with police in mississippi. he killed a police officer there. >>> the coast guard searching for a canadian man who jumped off a cruise ship 15 miles from puerto rico. other passengers saw the 26-year-old man jump saturday night. the final night of a cruise with his family. royal caribbean said the ship turned around to look for the man and no word on what led him to jump. >>> a development now in a story we have been following closely here on cnn. time running out for the family of this 1-year-old girl, jahi mcmath who has been on a vent

it all started last monday when 40-year-old mario edward garnett tried to hold up a bank in atlanta.iled. investigators say later that day he drove to mississippi and robbed another bank. one officer was killed and another hurt in a gunfight there. and the suspect escaped again. police caught up with him saturday in phoenix when they say he tried to rob another bank. >> i heard one, boom, boom, boom. >> the officer is trying to retreat and take cover. at that point the detective drew his service weapon and fired at the suspect. >> garnett was killed. no one else was injured. >>> time now 6:39. this bay area waterway has been calm almost too calm. how the dry weather is keeping away one of nature's -year-old attractions. >> and the market just opened up about 10 minutes ago. let's get a quick look at the early numbers. you can see a bit of a mixed bag this morning. we'll get an update from cbs moneywatch reporter wendy gillette. ,, a ticket purchased at a sane gift shop was one of two jat winners from the december 1h drawing. t >>> the bay area's mystery megamillionaire is holding out

it was only later the fbi would link the suspect, 40-year-old mario edward garnett, to a deadly cross-countryinformation that we have now. >> reporter: it all began last monday in atlanta where, investigators say, garnett held up an atm customer after failing to rob a bank. hours later, officials say he pulled off a bank heist in tupelo mississippi. this time ambushing two officers killing sergeant gayle stoffer, before traveling more than 1,500 miles to phoenix. garnett had served four years in the army. in 2010 he was arrested for making online threats against president barack obama and was released from federal prison in july. the fbi said garnett's cell phone records show he was in all three cities at the time of the robberies and noted other connections. >> similarities included the clothing worn by the subject, the objects the subject used to prop open the door statements the bank robber uttered during the robberies. >> reporter: sunday the widow of sergeant stoffer thanked investigators. >> you made it possible for us to move forward to finding peace for the long road ahead. >> reporte

. >> the suspect has been identified as mario edward garnett. mr. garnett was a black male.e was 40 years of age. >> reporter: this morning, new details about the man believed to have robbed two banks, seen in these images. then killing a police officer. secret service confirming he was arrested in 2010 for threatening to kill president obama and previous u.s. presidents. authorities say in august 2010, he posted this message on the white house website. if you order a strike on iran, i'm going to come up there and blow your brains out on national tv. that earned him eight months in jail and three years suspension. later, after violating his supervised release, he had to wear a gps monitoring device for four months. a court order allowed his cell phone records to be reviewed. placing him in all three bank robbery locations. the crime spree started in atlanta, moving to tupelo, mississippi, and ending in phoenix, arizona, across the country, almost 1900 miles away. for "good morning america," reena ninan, abc news, new york. >>> and our thanks to reena. >>> we turn to the econ

. >>> a serial police officer shooter, 48-year-old mario edward garnett was gunned down by plain clothes officers after he robbed a bank there in phoenix. officials say garnett shot and killed sergeant gail stopper last week in mississippi. >>> incredible pictures out of mexico this morning. a picturesque highway used by tourists to travel between insonata and tijuana collapsed. it fell apart t. ground started to give way and tumbled into the ocean t. driver of that truck managed to get out. what caused that collapse? still unclear. >>> for ted cruz has started the legal process to officially renounce his canadian citizenship. now, cruz says he hopes to complete the process sometime next year t. freshman senator was born if calgary to an american mother and cuban father. cruz denied that this decision to renounce his citizenship has any implications for his political future. of course, a lot of speculation about 2016. >>> we know the rollout of healthcare.gov has been a bit rocky to say the least. here's something you may not heard. now many doctors are worried another change could mean

this is mario edward garnett, seen walking around that bank with his gun drawn, making demands.on saturday. garnett was shot by plain clothesed officers after exiting the bank and engaging in a shootout. officials believe he's the same man who shot and killed a police officer in mississippi. >>> kim jong-un is marking the new year with a visit to the ski resort, the ski resort he is building. as a pet project of sorts for himself and the country's elite. it features 70 miles of ski runs, a hotel, heliport and ski lifts. he told state media it will open very soon. he was seen touring the resort with an ally of his uncle, the one he had executed earlier this month. >>> a university in michigan is ready to put a few of the year's overused words to bed. lake superior university has put out a list of the most annoying words, self-ie, twerk, those are a couple of the words the university wants to banish due to overuse and overall fatigue. the list is made up of nominations sent to the school throughout the year, a couple of the other words, twittersphere as well as hash tag. >> i migh