his name, elijah dicken. he's 22 years old. here's part of what the mayor had to say about him earlier. take a listen. >> we're very thankful for young 22-year-old man who stopped this violent act. this young man, greenwood's good samaritan, acted within seconds, stopping the shooter and saving countless lives. >> reporter: again, authorities say this happened at a food court in a mall that was just kind of generally busy on a sunday evening. elijah dicken just had a handgun on him, legally. it's legal in the state of indiana to carry it as he was. he confronted the shooter who authorities say had multisemiautomatic hand guns. elijah does not want to talk publicly at this time. they gave us some details on the shooter in this case. 20-year-old jonathan sapirman. he is known to authorities. he has a juvenile record with things like getting into a fight at school, running away at one point. but they say he doesn't have an adult record with authorities. he had been let go from his job at a warehouse. family told them he may have b

that wasn't the case here and it is part of why elijah dicken is hailed as a hero. >> it is a good pointplay out in seconds and minutes, right, before even law enforcement can get there. omar jimenez, thanks so much. >>> still ahead, dr. anthony fauci says the u.s. has not done enough yet to get a handle on monkeypox as one health leader predicts the window to control it probably has closed. what you need to know about the virus, how communicable it is, who is most at risk coming up. >>> we are also moments away from the opening bell on wall street. stock futures a bit higher this morning after a fresh batch of earnings data. investors really looking at signs of how decades high inflation is impacting companies, jobs and consumer spending. also new this morning, the commerce department reporting that construction on new homes is down for a second month in a row. ♪ ♪ well would you look at that? ♪ ♪ jerry, y've got to see this. seen it. trust me, after 15 walks it gets a little old. i really should be retired by now. wish i'd invested when i had the chance... to the moon! [golf ball bounc

. >> reporter: investigators tonight naming the good samaritan as elijah dicken, a 22-year-old indiana man who is declining to speak publicly they say the good samaritan was legally carrying a hand gun at the greenwood park mall with his girlfriend when around 5:00 p.m. sunday the 20-year-old gunman entered the food court armed with two semiautomatic rifles and a handgun. investigators say he first went to the restroom and stayed for an hour, stashing his phone in a toilet, then emerged and started firing >> we heard loud gunshots. >> reporter: they say the gunman killed three including victor gomez and injured two, among them a 12-year-old girl >> seeing somebody laying on the ground and i grabbed my kids and we ran. >> reporter: authorities say the armed bystander confronted and killed the shooter immediately, a rare outcome amid this kind of carnage researchers who study active shooter events tracked 464 attacks between 2000 and 2021. in 73 cases a bystander stopped the shooter. mostly by subduing them physically. the number of times a bystander shot the shooter? 24. >> this young m

he has been identified as elijah dickens. he was at the greenwood park mall with his girlfriend when the gunman entered the food court and began firing authorities say dicken was legally carrying a handgun when he confronted and immediately killed the shooter >>> the criminal contempt trial of steve bannon is under way in washington, d.c. he faces charges for defying a subpoena from the january 6 committee. the juror pool will be narrowed down let's turn to brie jackson in d.c. bannon's team tried to delay this, saying that the publicity would make it unfair >> reporter: that's right, but the trump-appointed judge in this case said he's hopeful that jurors can be found that had not been following the january 6 hearings closely the people who made the cut yesterday were mostly outside of politics and aren't consumed by political news the january 6 committee is interested in asking bannon about possible fore knowledge of the attack after he said on his podcast on january 5th that all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. banno

police say elijah dickens shaved a lot of lives that day. >> he engaged the gunman from quite a distance with the handgun, was very proficient in that, very tactically sound. as he moved to close in on the suspect, he was also motioning for people to commit behind him. >>> so the fbi will go through the suspect's cell phone and his laptop. investigators found the phone in a mall toilet and his laptop in the suspect's apartment oven which was turned on at high heat along with a can of butane. >>> an emotional day in court as the case of the parkland school shooter moves to the penalty phase. opening statements using the gunman's own words from a social media post against him. >> this is what the defendant said. hello. my name is nick. i'm going to be the next school shooter of 2018. >> nikolas cruz pleaded guilty to killing 17 people in the 2018 massacre. this phase of this trial is expected to last four months. tough for family members who have to rewatch disturbing video from that scene. >> sitting in the courtroom quietly and keeping my emotions to myself is probably going to be very d

that man is identified as elijah dickens.ed and immediately killed the shooter. >>> opening arguments are set to begin in the contempt trial of steve bannon the former white house adviser is facing charges for refusing to testify. >>> and a woman is soaring through the glass ceiling in the navy lieutenant amanda lee is serving with the blue angels she has been with the navy for six years. she was part of the first female flyover for rosemary mariner one of the first to receive her wings in 1974. >>> going into the major league baseball home run derby. the oldest contestant in history, but kids stole the show 42-year-old albert pujols eliminated kyle schwarber, but then that set up the match with juan soto. >> it keeps going. he's got it. bat is flipped sky high. juan soto is the 2022. >> off balance, but on target. the 23-year-old juan soto beats julio rodriguez. soto gets the trophy and $1 million in prize money soto was in diapers and rodriguez was not born when pujols was drafted in 1999 >> it is hard to believe i could be

elijah dicken is the hero.with his girlfriend shopping when he spotted the gunman and returned fire. police say the good samaritan that was legally carrying saved more lives from being taken. >> i will say his actions were nothing short of heroic. he engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a handgun. was very proficient in that, tactically sound. as he moved to close in on the suspect, he was also motioning for people to exit behind him. to our knowledge he has no police training and no military background. >> gillian: unbelievable. he jumped in action like that and took down that shooter. investigators say the gunman bought the weapons at a local gun store. he add a juvenile history but no criminal history as an adult. the atf is looking into the gun purchases and the family says they're surprised. they said he lived alone, he tells authorities that he lived alone and quit his job in indiana and had an eviction notice from his landlord. looking to get more information on that. >> gillian: thanks, alexis.

he was stopped in a few minutes by a good samaritan, a good guy with a gun, a 22-year-old named elijah dicken, who was at the mall with his girl friend, no police training, no military background. he was able to shoot him with the handgun that he had on his body, legally purchased handgun that he was legally allowed to carry. joining me now is nbc news correspondent maggie vespa and law enforcement agent dermot shea. i'm sorry to have stepped on a lot of the was in that you were gathering as well from at that news conference but what can you tell us that you're seeing onseen? >> one of the thing is the chief of police and the mayor both saying they wanted to point out how their first responders jumped into action. they said something along the lines of this is proof that training works. obviously that's a really poignant point, given what we've seen in uvalde. they're working with greenwood police, indiana police, fbi and atf. they're saying it was the good guy with the guns, elijah dickins, who they said engaged the shooter from a distance with a handgun and was able to hit the shooter they

the police say 22 year-old elijah dicken may tactically sound moves. dicken turned himself over to mall security telling them he neutralized the shooter. >> we're calls from act >> investigators say 20 year-old jonathan sapirman went straight to a bathroom after entering the greenwood park mall. once there police believe he spent an hour putting together a semiautomatic rifle and 2 other weapons leaving the bathroom and then opening fire on the food court. right now, police do not have a motive but say sapirman tried destroying his electronics when investigators raided his apartment after the shooting, they found his laptop in the oven with a can of butane and his cell phone in the toilet. and this morning news nation has new details about the victims. allison says she found a piece a bullet in her 12 year-old daughters back after giving her a hug. she had been at the mall with her sisters and grandma and is expected to make a full recovery clear. so. well. that was nick smith reporting for us reporting for u.s.. officials say the ar 15 style rifle and

toward the food court filled with dozens of people but within moments was confronted by 22-year-old elijah dickenthing short of heroic. he engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a handgun. many more people would have died last night if not for a responsible armed citizen that took action very quickly within the first two minutes of this shooting. >> tragically three people did die in the shooting. they have been identified as 30-year-old victor gomez, 56-year-old pedro pineta and his wife, rosa mirian rivera de pineda, who was 37 years old. >>> outfront for us next, the parkland gunman who killed 17 people is on trial once again, a trial the likes of which this un uncountry has ever seen. >>> plus despite the attacks the doctor who performed the abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim is standing firm. what she is saying tonight. ne rising out of water ] minions are bitin' today. ♪ liberty. libertrty. liberty. liberty. ♪ minions: the e rise of gru, only in theaters. when traders tell us how to make thinkorswim® even better, we listen. like jack. he wanted a streamlined version he could acces

his name is elijah dickens and he was there with his girlfriend last night at the hall just shopping.was armed with a pistol. he believes it was perhaps a glock. he's going through a lot, the police chief said. he has allowed his name to be released but this is someone who went to the mall just expecting to be shopping and not expecting to do what he did. but they also walked us through the timeline of the shooter, a 20-year-old jonathan saperman who he was able to neutralize. this shooter came into the mall about an hour earlier than closing, just about 5:00. he came into the mall, went straight to the restroom near the food court. so this shows some kind of planning. he waited there for almost until 6:00 and then came out and began firing straight into the food court. he hit several victims whose names we also now know. a married couple, both of whom were shot and killed by this gunman. the third victim, victor gomez, age 30 of indianapolis. so this is really quite the sort of scene, it's the sort of thing you hear pro gun rights advocates talk about, a good guy with a gun being abl

now, that good samaritan, elijah dickens, was neither an off duty officer or a security guard.ired 24 shots, according to rounds recovered from the scene. but this gunman was armed at the very least with a rifle and a pistol with more than 100 rounds of ammunition. so, the intent here seemed to be do a lot more damage than the tragic loss of life we saw anyway. again, when you look at that data, it's incredibly rare for a bystander with a gun to stop an active shooter. but that's exactly what happened here and it's part of why he's being hailed a hero. >> we'll be right back. tiful da. we have so much to be grateful for. so just remembmber, if you see someone without a smile, give them one of youours. i just love inspiring people to be the best they can be. and the reason i'm able to inspire so many people is because people like you, who inspire me with your support of shriners hospitals for children. since i was little, i've broken a hundred bones and i've had 19 surgeries. shriners hospitals for children was with me every step of the way. but more than that, they've given me

. >> the shooter's spree lasted two minutes, ended by elijah dicken, carrying a handgun >> he has no police training and no military background >> and then back to the shooter, police say he had no criminal history as an adult. as a child, he would get in fights in school and was also considered a runaway as for the time he was spending in the bathroom, police believe he was getting ready he had magazines strapped around his waistband and another gun folded up inside a backpack. >> thanks. there's the terrible human toll to gun violence, and then there's the financial one. the joint economic committee democrats released a new report today that attempts to add up the cost of shootings to our economy. it shows the medical bills alone for shooting survivors and their families can top $1 billion a year in america. in fact, survivors see their health care spending increase by nearly $2500 a month on average in the year following the injury the congressional report also states those numbers are likely too low and more research is needed cnbc's senior congressional correspondent, ylan mui s

elijah dicken identified as the 22-year-old good samaritan bystander who shot the man outside after shopping authorized under constitutional carry law. he jonathan, he had three handguns, fired 24 rounds and was neutralized in two minutes, not before he shot five people and three were killed. >> exactly. this good samaritan, the second amendment the right to bear arms. i don't see people now complaining about the right to bear arms when this person saved lives. he took action. he was legally carrying his weapon. he stopped the active shooter which was heroic and great event. looking at the active shooter event taking place around the country now, we should see we should want this to stop, put in all different types of measures to make this happened. the second amendment, the right to bear arms. he defended and he saved lives. elizabeth: that is the underreported story of this country, right? americans standing up and stopping evil and stopping violence, you know. people are calling them vigilantes but people are moving to protect themselves because of the collapse of standards in crime fight

police say elijah dicken from seymour, indiana, was out shopping with his girlfriend when he spotted the gunman and returned fire. this young man, greenwood's good good samaritan acted within seconds, stopping the shooter and saving countless lives, though it's against policy to carry a weapon, the mall says they're appreciative of #### in for putting an end to this violence. his actions were nothing short of heroic. um he engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a handgun and as he moved to closed in on the suspect, he was also motioning for people to exit behind him. police say the shooter had several magazines and at least three guns inside of the bathroom. investigators also say , recently left his job and had been practicing shooting at a local gun range in new york. i'm alexis mcadams fox news. thieves make off with more than $100 million worth of unique jewelry along interstate five the questions over how criminals were able to pull off the heist also had using art to call attention to the dangers of fentanyl how some high school students are helping to raise awareness. m

. >> 22-year-old elijah dicken, what a hero, can you imagine, kaitlan, the poise and the courage required of him? even if he's armed, i think until you're in that circumstance, you wouldn't know how you would respond if given the opportunity, and according to law enforcement within two minutes he was able to subdue, to kill that attacker or it would have been a hell of a lot worse. it is a very rare outcome. in other words, we don't often get the hollywood ending. "the new york times," within the last 30 days, published a look at two decades worth of data. i think it was 433 active shooter situations. most of them end before the police arrive, and they end with the suicide of the attacker himself or because he's fled the scene. of the 433 they scrutinized, only 12 ended like this one ended. so all praise to the 22-year-old hero in indianapolis, but it also raises questions of if everyone was now carrying a gun, would there be cross fire, would more people get lost as a result of secondary shootings? i'm not saying it is the outcome where everybody should be armed, but at least in this cas

girl hit by a bullet fragment before the shooter was taken out by a 22-year-old good samaritan, elijah dickens the scene. >> john: alexis mcadams has been covering this all day and police are really singing the praises of dickens for showing the bravery to go after the gunman and tremendous amount of expertise in terms of how he moved tactically and his marksmanship, which probably saved a number of lives. >> exactly, john. in the press conference and throughout the day talking to authorities, they say the 22 indiana man, from seymour, indiana, even more southern than where this happened near indianapolis, took down the shooter within seconds. he was in the foot court when he spotted the gunman and opened fire with a gun police say he was licensed to carry. we have been getting those updates from authorities there as you heard, but for a motive, nothing just yet. investigators say the gunman had at least three guns, two on his body at the time of the shooting, and sources are telling us that they raided his indiana apartment overnight where he might have been evicted recently or set to be evic

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