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Mar-a-Lago shooting Armed man killed at Trumps FL home · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: The Secret Service says a man in his early twenties,
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  Speaker 1: caring what appeared to be a shotgun and a fuel can,
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  Speaker 1: entered a restricted area around Trump's Palm Beach, Florida home
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  Speaker 1: early this morning before he was shot and killed by authorities.
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  Speaker 1: I want to bring in CNN's Julia Benbrook. She's at
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  Speaker 1: the White House. So, Julia, how is the President's team
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  Speaker 1: responding to this?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? The most important thing to note here is that
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  Speaker 2: President Donald Trump and First Lady Milania Trump, they were
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  Speaker 2: here at the White House at the time of this incident,
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  Speaker 2: but they travel often to their mar A Lago estate.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, the President has been there almost every weekend
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  Speaker 2: in recent weeks. During a press briefing that took place
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  Speaker 2: earlier today, the Palm Beach County Sheriff Rick Bradshaw, standing
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  Speaker 2: with representatives from the FBI and Secret Service, he detailed
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  Speaker 2: what they know now. He said that a man around
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  Speaker 2: one point thirty in the morning made it into the
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  Speaker 2: perimeter at mar A Lago, and that a deputy and
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  Speaker 2: two Secret Service agents on the detail went to investigate.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: They confronted a white male that was carried a gas
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  Speaker 3: can and a shotgun. He was ordered to drop those
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  Speaker 3: two pieces of equipment that he had with them, at
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  Speaker 3: which time he put down the gas can raised the
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  Speaker 3: shotgun to a shooting position. At that point in time,
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  Speaker 3: the deputy and the two Secret Service agents fired their
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  Speaker 3: weapons and neutralized the threat. He has deceased at the scene.
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  Speaker 2: Authorities have said that this man was in his early
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  Speaker 2: twenties and from North Carolina. He was reported missing recently
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  Speaker 2: by a family member. Now, the sheriff did say that
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  Speaker 2: his deputies are always wearing body cameras and so we
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  Speaker 2: could see some of that footage in the future there.
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  Speaker 2: But the FBI is the lead agency on this. They
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  Speaker 2: will be responsible for handling any questions going forward. And
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  Speaker 2: we did hear from FBI Director Cash Fatell a little
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  Speaker 2: while ago. He posted on social media. He said quote,
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  Speaker 2: the FBI is dedicating all necessary resources in the investigation
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  Speaker 2: of this morning's incident at President Trump's mar Lago, where
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  Speaker 2: an armed individual was shot and killed after unlawfully entering
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  Speaker 2: the perimeter. We will continue working closely with Secret Service
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  Speaker 2: as well as state and federal partners, and will provide
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  Speaker 2: updates as we are able. They are currently processing the
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  Speaker 2: scene and analyzing any evidence They've also asked people in
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  Speaker 2: the area that if they have any doorbell camera footage
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  Speaker 2: that does seem suspicious could be related to this, that
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  Speaker 2: they should contact authorities.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Julia. Still a lot of questions
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  Speaker 1: at this point. I want to bring in CNA Chief
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  Speaker 1: Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst John Miller. You've been talking
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  Speaker 1: to your sources here. What does this investigation look like
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  Speaker 1: at this point.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what they're trying to do, Omar, is to backtrack
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  Speaker 4: through the last twenty four hours or more since this
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  Speaker 4: individual was reported missing. He's a twenty two year old
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  Speaker 4: man from the area of Cameron, North Carolina, and it
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  Speaker 4: appears he drove there to mar A Lago. One of
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  Speaker 4: the things that was found in the vehicle, his Volkswagen SUV,
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  Speaker 4: was the box for the shotgun. So investigators believe that
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  Speaker 4: he left his North Carolina home, stopped along the way
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  Speaker 4: perhaps and purchased that shotgun and the gasoline, and then
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  Speaker 4: drove to mar A Lago. One of the questions is
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  Speaker 4: how did he get into that perimeter. It appears that
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  Speaker 4: as an employee was leaving and opened the gate to
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  Speaker 4: walk out, he caught the gate and walked in. He
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  Speaker 4: made it about twenty to thirty yards before he was
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  Speaker 4: confronted in that perimeter by two Secret Service agents and
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  Speaker 4: a deputy Palm Beach County sheriff. And as the sheriff said,
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  Speaker 4: according to their report, and the deputy does have body camera,
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  Speaker 4: as he was ordered to put down the shotgun and
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  Speaker 4: the gas can. He put down the gas can, raised
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  Speaker 4: the shotgun into a firing position, and all three, both
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  Speaker 4: agents and the deputy fired, killing him.
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  Speaker 1: Do we know if the shotgun was loaded? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: obviously pointing a weapon at law enforcement prompts the reaction
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  Speaker 1: that they had here, But just on the back end
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  Speaker 1: of this, do we know if that shotgun was actually loaded?
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's a good question, Omar, because as you
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  Speaker 4: point out, there's no way that those law enforcement officers
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  Speaker 4: would have known by seeing the shotgun whether it was
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  Speaker 4: loaded when it was pointed at them. But the question
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  Speaker 4: goes directly to what was his intent of going into
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  Speaker 4: that perimeter. Did he know that President Trump wasn't there
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  Speaker 4: and was at the White House? Was his specific intent?
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  Speaker 4: Suicide by cop, which we've seen in a number of
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  Speaker 4: these incidentss where people cause the police because of their
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  Speaker 4: own depression mental health issues, whatever it is to take
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  Speaker 4: their lives. Whether or not that shotgun is loaded will
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  Speaker 4: give us a better indicator of that when we find
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  Speaker 4: that information out from the FBI. But right now I
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  Speaker 4: don't know the answer to that, but it's a good question.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of questions still in this early stages
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  Speaker 1: of the investigation. John Miller appreciate the time as always