bill mcmahon, i'm the chief of police here in howard county. let me echo a couple thoughts from the county executive before i give you some details. thank you for your patience. you can imagine, this is a very complex and trying scene for everybody that's involved. and i know it's also, causes great concern in the community. so we again, we thank our communities for their patience and their understanding and for our friends in the media, we certainly appreciate your understanding as well. we are giving you an have given you information. as soon as we received it. because we know how much concern there is when something like this happens in such a public place as the mall. so about 11:15 this morning, our 911 center received a number of calls for shots fired at the columbia mall. we had officers quickly get into the area, and we were able to identify three victims at an upper level store in the columbia mall. one of those victims appears to be the shooter. and at this point and, again, please, bear with me. this is two hours, two hours and fifte

then bill mcmahon spoke to the press. he said at 11:15 the police received calls that shots had been fired. he said it occurred at an upper level store. he did not say which store that was but he would be coming back for another press conference. he believes that one of the deceased was the shooter, and the officials are inside now clearing the mall as garon mentioned. a lot of reporters are wondering if this is a domestic dispute or is it something that was completely random in an unexpected area. he was confident that it was a single shooter. let's take a listen to what they had to say. >> at is 1:15, they received a number of calls of shots fired at the columbia mall. we had officers quickly get into the area, and we were able to identify three victims at the columbia mall. one of those victims appears to be the shooter. we do not have an identity for the shooter yet. we do not have a motive for the shooting. we're still trying to secure the mall to make sure again that there is nobody else injured, and then we're gett

that's howard county police chief bill mcmahon, recapping for us. the new information we have is police confirm at this hour there's no known relationship between the victims and the shooter. what the police have said that they will do is because the shooter had no previous criminal record, they will release a driver's license photo to us. they've also told us that they have with a search warrant gone in and found some type of a journal where police say the shooter expressed some general discontentment with his life. we want to recap what howard county executive ken ullman mentioned a few moments ago. there will be two memorial sites for the public to visit inside the mall. again, the mall will reopen tomorrow at 1:00. there will be one memorial site at the entrance by starbucks and another inside the mall by lord & taylor. this is a quote from howard county executive ken ullman who said just minutes ago we may never be quite back to 10 % normal, but we are resilient. again, this is a live press conference outside columbia mall. police saying this i

that was a press conference with howard county police chief bill mcmahon laying out what they know atthis shooting in columbia, maryland, at the mall there. we are standing by here with lou palumbo who is a former investigator and former police officer and is going to walk us through some of the information we've just heard. also with us, joining us, will be evan perez. he is our justice correspondent, and he has some details that cnn has learned about this particular shooting. we will have all of that coming up after a short break. i'm beth... and i'm michelle. and we own the paper cottage. it's a stationery and gifts store. anything we purchase for the paper cottage goes on our ink card. so you can manage your business expenses and access them online instantly with the game changing app from ink. we didn't get into business to spend time managing receipts, that's why we have ink. we like being in business because we like being creative, we like interacting with people. so you have time to focus on the things you love. ink from chase. so you can. for atrust bufferin, the only non-ste

rápidamente con equipos de reacción inmediata y helicópteros >>> el jefe del departamento de policía, bill mcmahonocen el motivo del incidente, las autoridades indican que el centro comercial está libre de peligro. >>> la policía recientemente identificó a las víctimas del tiroteo, son rihanna benlolo de 21 años, de college park , maryland, y tyler johnson de Érica city, maryland, ambos empleados de la tienda summiers, que es una tienda de artículos deportivos en la ciudad, y los lesionados que fueron 5, nada de peligro y 4 lesionados al tratar de huir de la escena del tiroteo. >>> lourdes, han pasado pocas horas del tiroteo, del incidente, pero ¿hay alguna pista que nos pueda decir qué había detrás del ataque? >>> esto está en la mente de todo el mundo y la policía está siendo presionada para contestar, pero dijeron que no sabían los motivos que no se siguieran rumores, porque por ejemplo era una disputa doméstica, sin embargo también tienen que investigar, no han dicho qué tipo de escopeta era, qué tipo de municiones encontraron junto al cadáver del sospechoso. >>> muchas gracias, lourdes . >>>

now i want to bring up our police chief bill mcmahon who has been leading this operation on the ground. thank you. >> thank you, mr. executive. i'm the chief of police here in howard county. let me echo a couple of thoughts from the county executive. thank you for your patience. as you can imagine, this is a very complex and trying scene for everybody that's involved. i know it causes great concern in the community. we again thank our communities for their patience and their understanding and for your friends in the media, we certainly appreciate your understanding, as well. we are giving you and have given you information as soon as we received it because we know how much concern there is when something like this happens in such a public place as the mall. 11:15 our 911 center received a number of calls for shots fired. we had officer get into the area and were able to identify three victims at an upper level store in the columbia mall. one of those victims appears to be the shooter. at this point, please bear with me. this is two hours 15 minutes into the incident. there are a lot of

bill mcmahon went before reporters and was talking about the scene.e can watch a little bit of that now. >> about 11:15 this morning our 911 center received a number of calls for shots fired at the columbia mall. we had officers quickly get into the area. we were able to identify three victims at an upper level store in the columbia mall. one of those victims appears to be the shooter. at this point, again, please bear with me. this is two hours, two hours 15 minutes since the incident, there are still a lot of details we need to confirm. right now we think one of the e deceased is the shooter. we do not think there are any more shooters in or around the mall. we are going through a process right now. think about this on a saturday afternoon at the mall how many people may be in there. when something like this happens, people run in many directions and they also do what actually we trained people to do and that is to shelter in place. right now we have many, many people still in the mall that have secured themselves inside stores. our s.w.a.t. teams w

late today bill mcmahon the police chief leading the investigation told us they still don't know why the suspect darion marcus aguilar opened fire on the columbia mall. does this open up the possibility that perhaps this is an angry customer who walked in and started firing? >> i think it is all possible, again, we are just over 24 hours into this. >> reporter: shortly after 10:00 a.m. on saturday investigators believe aguilar was dropped off by a taxi and walked into the upper level of the mall, staying there for several minutes and then they say he took an escalator downstairs before going back up. that's where the shooting fan at about 11:15 a.m. inside and outside the zumiez store, witnesses say the two victims, store employees, 21- year-old brianna benlolo and 25- year-old tyler johnson were shot and killed. aguilar lived in this college park, maryland home with his mother, approximately four blocks from benlolo's home, investigators say he was a loner. when they searched the house law enforcement forces say they recovered a journal with entries that suggested aguilar had been u

. >> cbs sources say this was a domestic related shooting, but howard county police chief, bill mcmahon, cannot confirm a motive. >> we do not know what caused the shooting incident. any attribution to being domestic related or anything else is speculation. >> the large ammunition found on his body. >> because of concerns about any other weapons he may have or explosives, we are approaching this with abundance of caution and getting assistance in making sure there's no explosives on the body of the deceased. >> there was chaos after the sound of shots fired. shoppers and mall workers started running. >> i heard gun shooting. >> can you show me where? >> this woman says she was very scared and hid out at her asian restaurant storage room. andrea whose husband is a police officer took cover at the h and m store with her two young sons. >> i was pulling him lying on the floor, pulling him to the back of the store. we have been hanging out back there coloring on some plates. >> many shoppers were eventually evacuated out of the mall and reunited with loved ones. columbia mall is now deemed

bill mcmahon, the police chief. >> when our officers approached, he was obviously deceased, but he was also still-- had a large amount of ammunition still on and about him. >> reporter: they trained, but still it took them hours to clear the mall, going store to store, clearing out shoppers and workers who had taken cover. lauren logan hid in the back of the salon where she works. >> we were just calling family and friends and just telling them we were okay and we were secure. >> it's just too scary for me to even want to ever go through this again. >> reporter: five people were injured in the shooting. one suffered a gunshot wound to the foot. jim, investigators are still searching for a motive and would not comment on reports that this was a domestic situation. >> reporter: jeff pegues in columbia, maryland, thank you. now to the deep freeze which has broken or tied more than 2,600 cold weather records in the lower 48 states so far this month and there's still a week left. the frigid temperatures and the way some people are trying to stay warm are fueling a spike in the type of fires

. >> as yet, according to the police chief, bill mcmahon, moments ago saying they have uncovered no motive. and, again, they continue to try to secure the mall. tom fuentes. thank you so much. i know you're not going to go far, because we may call upon you again very soon. erin mcpike, our cnn correspondent is there outside of the mall. erin, i just want to remind people at home, there is a very lengthy delay in our communication now. so there may about great pause before you hear erin speaking after i have stopped speaking. so, erin what more can you tell us? have you seen a lot more people being escorted out, exiting that mall as they try to secure that mall of 200 stores? >> well, fred, we have seen people come out in front of the jcpenney, but a lot of the activity has been around the sears area. we also understand that a lot of people were taken to a theater which is on the other side of the mall, and people who came out on that side were going to a bar in the area, but they're removing people from the mall and taking them to other establishments so that they can meet up with family a

now i'll turn it to bill mcmahon, who has been running the operation on the ground. >> i'm chief police here in howard county. thank you for your patience. as you can imagine this is a very complex and trying scene for everybody that is involved. and i know it also causes great concern in the community. we thank our communities for their patience and understanding and our friends in the media, we appreciate your understanding as well. we're giving you and have give you information as soon as we received it because we know how much concern there is when something like this happens. in such a public place as the mall. about 11:15 this morning we received a number of calls and shots fired at the columbia mall. we had officers quickly get into the area, and we were able to identify three victims in an upper level store in the columbia mall. bear with me, this is two hours into the incident, there are still a lot of details we need to confirm. we think one of the deceased is, in fact, the shooter. we do not think that there is any more shooters in or around the mall. we're going through a pr

and we'll hear from our county executive bill alman and chief of police big mcmahon. >> thank you. thank you all for being here once again. my deepest thank yous go out to our men and women in law enforcement who arrived on the scene within two minutes of the first call that we got to 911 and did not wait to go into the mall to do the things that they're trained to do. both our tactical team and patrol officers. these are the kinds of things that unfortunately in our nation our law enforcement train on and are prepared to do and they did exactly what they were trained to do. both our folks here in howard county and all of our neighboring partners from many counties throughout maryland, the state police, federal partners. as you can tell, the mall, you saw a lot of folks come out of the mall. the mall has been cleared. this took a long time because if you imagine how many rooms there are in the mall, how many back offices and rest rooms and dressing rooms and nooks and crannies in the mall, the tactical teams went through every inch of the mall and it has been cleared. as you know,

earlier this morning the howard county police chief, bill mcmahon, briefed reporters on the identityt still there is no motive. >> darion marcus aguilar is the shooter. we do not have any -- we have not been able to verify any type of relationship at this point between him and either of our victims. we can't establish that there is one. we have not been able to establish there is not one. that is an open question. we know that's a important piece of information our community's interested in. >> reporter: now, the investigation will continue. the mall is set to reopen tuesday. it may open earlier. "fareed zakaria gps" continues now. >>> in a moment an exclusive interview with the man who is trying to put japan back on the map. it's prime minister shinzo abe. once admired and feared by much of the world, especially america, the great japanese economy has since become moribund. the economy has grown less than 1% on average for the last 20 years. and the amount of debt the nation has accumulated is 200% of gdp, twice the size of its total economy. can anyone make this economy work? enter

this morning police chief bill mcmahon addressed that. >> darion marcus aguilar is the shooter. we have not been able to verify any type of relationship at this point between him and either of our victims. we can't establish that there is one. we have not been able to establish there is not one. that is an open question. we know that's an important piece of information our community is interested in, but we just don't know that. we're working to find that out now. >> reporter: police also say that aguilar purchased that shotgun about a month ago in nearby montgomery county. but part of the mystery is that he was also carrying a backpack that had two homemade explosive devices. they were never detonated. and police were able to disable them. but he also had a lot of ammunition on him. and so police aren't yet sure if this was a targeted event or if it could have been a bigger mass shooting, miguel. >> erin mcpike in columbia, maryland, thank you very much. >>> we continue to learn more information of the victims in the maryland mall shootings. coming up next hour, a cnn exclusive

so again, thank you for being here and i want to again bring up our chief of police, bill mcmahon, who was here on the scene right away and is working on a couple of hours' sleep, but led a wonderful, dedicated, brave group of men and women over the last 24 hours or so. thank you. >> thank you, mr. executive. and thank you all for your patience. we know you have a tremendous number of questions and obvious interest in this case. and frankly, in many ways they are the same questions that we have. i'm going to do my best to answer as many of them as i can. right from the beginning. before i get into that, let me again just thank our community. the mall is a very important part of this community. it's more than just an economic entity. it really is kind of the main street for columbia and one of the things howard county's known for. so we know the impact when we have the mall shutdown. we know what kind of impact that not just economically but kind of psychologically. so we appreciate the support and patience we're getting from our community and we deal with this. i certainly thank you al

bill mcmahon. let me echo some of his comments.s you can imagine this is a very complex and trying scene for everybody that's involved. and i know it's also causes great concern in the community. we, again, we thank our communities for their patience and their understanding. and the friend in the media, we certainly appreciate your understanding as well. we are giving you information as soon as we received it. because we know how much of a concern there is when something like this happens in such a public place as the mall. about 11:15, our 911 received a call for shots fired at the mall. we had officers get into the area. we were able to identify three victims at an upper level store in the columbia mall. one of those victims appears to be the shooter. and at this point, and again, please bear with me. this is two hours and 15 minutes into the incident. there's still a lot of details that we need to confirm. right now, we think that one of the deceased is, in fact, the shooter. we do not think at this point that there's anymore sh

bill mcmahon, m-c-m-a-h-o-n. thank you for your patience.hat's involved. and i know it's also a cause of great concern in the community. we thank our communities for their patience and their understanding and for your friends in the media, we certainly appreciate your understanding, as well. we are giving you and have given you information as soon as we received it, because we know how much concern there is when something like this happens in such a public place as the mall. so about 11:15 this morning, we received a number of calls of shots fired at the columbia mall. we had officers quickly get into the area and we were able to identify three victims at an upper level store in the columbia mall. one of those victims appears to be the shooter. and at this point, again, please bear with me, this is two hours, two hours and fifteen minutes into the incident. there's still a lot of details we need to confirm. but right now, we think that one of the deceased is, in fact, the shooter. we do not think there's any -- at this point, there's anymore

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