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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 0:12Speaker 2: A Saturday trip to the mall turns into a nightmare.
- 0:17Speaker 2: Eight dead, many many others critically wounded, hanging on to
- 0:24Speaker 2: life by a thread. I Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories.
- 0:29Speaker 2: Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation
- 0:31Speaker 2: and Serious XM one eleven. Take a listen to the
- 0:35Speaker 2: dispatch we just obtained.
- 0:40Speaker 3: Start at thee.
- 0:42Speaker 4: A runner for Gameless right now, guys, go.
- 1:10Speaker 3: To for your information. We're getting something else about.
- 1:15Speaker 5: Possible shots fired over the Nike.
- 1:17Speaker 3: Outlets in that one.
- 1:18Speaker 1: It's hard to make out some of that.
- 1:21Speaker 2: The desperate call for help at a mall, a packed mall,
- 1:26Speaker 2: when eight are killed, many others wounded.
- 1:30Speaker 1: At prime shopping time.
- 1:33Speaker 2: Everybody's home for the weekend and heading to the mall,
- 1:36Speaker 2: and then this mom's there with their children, families together,
- 1:41Speaker 2: all gunned down, including the children.
- 1:44Speaker 1: Do you hear what's being said?
- 1:46Speaker 2: People are running at Polo Ralph Lauren, We're trying to
- 1:51Speaker 2: get the shooter. He's still shooting at Tommy Hill Figure
- 1:55Speaker 2: at Nike outlet. Can you imagine that same we've all
- 2:00Speaker 2: been to the mall, We've all seen these very stores,
- 2:05Speaker 2: gunshots ringing out at first people didn't want to believe.
- 2:09Speaker 1: What they were hearing.
- 2:11Speaker 2: They wanted to believe someone had set off firecrackers. Take
- 2:16Speaker 2: a listen to our friends at w FAA.
- 2:18Speaker 6: My mom and I were in Johnson and Murphy's shopping
- 2:21Speaker 6: and I don't know where I heard about like ten
- 2:24Speaker 6: pops go off and I look at the cusser next
- 2:26Speaker 6: to me.
- 2:27Speaker 1: I was like, was that gunshots?
- 2:29Speaker 6: And he's like, no, it's probably just construction or something.
- 2:31Speaker 6: And then like heard ten fifteen more shots go off,
- 2:35Speaker 6: and so I ran to the front of the store
- 2:36Speaker 6: and we're like, no, that's shooting, and we see the guy.
- 2:39Speaker 6: There's this guy dressing all black, wearing a vest, has
- 2:42Speaker 6: assault rifle and he's just shooting at people.
- 2:45Speaker 7: Terrified shoppers take cover Saturday afternoon in the back of
- 2:48Speaker 7: stores at the Allen Premium Outlets as police respond to
- 2:53Speaker 7: an active shooter on the property.
- 2:55Speaker 8: I got box seased to shut the door because you
- 2:56Speaker 8: don't know where the shoots it was.
- 3:00Speaker 7: Mayhem Punnik abu Asker was with his wife and one
- 3:03Speaker 7: year old child when he heard gunshots outside of H
- 3:06Speaker 7: and M.
- 3:07Speaker 1: He grabbed a woman he.
- 3:08Speaker 7: Says was shot in the side and brought her into
- 3:11Speaker 7: the store.
- 3:12Speaker 1: You know, I need some help here. That's why she said,
- 3:14Speaker 1: I don't know why I got shot? What's going on?
- 3:16Speaker 9: And that's when I just saw a block playstoma.
- 3:19Speaker 2: The shock that is going to live with all of
- 3:21Speaker 2: these witnesses will last a lifetime.
- 3:25Speaker 1: But what about the victims dead?
- 3:29Speaker 2: Joining me an all star panel to makes sense of
- 3:31Speaker 2: what we know right now. First of all, to Professor
- 3:35Speaker 2: of Forensics Jacksonville State University, author of Blood Beneath My
- 3:40Speaker 2: Feet on Amazon and star of a hit new series
- 3:43Speaker 2: Body Bags, with.
- 3:44Speaker 1: Joe Scott Morgan.
- 3:46Speaker 2: Joe Scott, Well, everything about that this is deadly and evil.
- 3:54Speaker 1: This guy, this shooter.
- 3:57Speaker 2: Why is he clothed like he's going to a masquerade party.
- 4:02Speaker 2: I mean, he's dressed all in black and shows up
- 4:06Speaker 2: with what kind of weapons does he show up with
- 4:10Speaker 2: at the law?
- 4:12Speaker 3: He's dressed in black, Nancy, Because I believe this is
- 4:14Speaker 3: what's referred to as tactical gear that he is wearing
- 4:18Speaker 3: from head to toad. That is gear that would specifically
- 4:22Speaker 3: associate him with either the police or military. He's also
- 4:27Speaker 3: wearing a tactical vest. And the images that if I
- 4:31Speaker 3: am believing the images that I'm seeing he's wearing a
- 4:35Speaker 3: tactical vest which has space for multiple magazines for this
- 4:39Speaker 3: weapon that he is carrying. You can actually see a
- 4:42Speaker 3: couple of the magazines there the weapon, at least, again
- 4:45Speaker 3: a prefacingness by saying, I don't know the veracity of
- 4:50Speaker 3: this image that I'm seeing, but the weapon looks like
- 4:54Speaker 3: an assault weapon. It looks like either a zero point
- 4:58Speaker 3: two to three probably chamber for that or five point
- 5:02Speaker 3: five to six millimeter a round, which is the same
- 5:05Speaker 3: round that you can buy two two, three and five
- 5:08Speaker 3: on top six in our world. Five point top six
- 5:12Speaker 3: is generally used by our military. It's a high velocity
- 5:15Speaker 3: round that does a lot of damage.
- 5:16Speaker 2: I'm curious if you don't mind explaining when you say
- 5:20Speaker 2: tactical gear. All of us in law enforcement or the
- 5:24Speaker 2: military understand that, But what do you mean by it,
- 5:27Speaker 2: For instance, the multiple pockets on his clothing, Well.
- 5:32Speaker 3: Let's just think about think about it this way, with
- 5:34Speaker 3: the tactical with the vest that he's wearing, a big
- 5:37Speaker 3: vest that you wear, and the magazines that contain the
- 5:41Speaker 3: ammunition are posted on the front of the vests, okay,
- 5:46Speaker 3: and they're inverted. That means that they're upside down. So
- 5:48Speaker 3: if you grab one by the base, you quickly pull
- 5:51Speaker 3: it out, you drop the empty bag, and then you
- 5:54Speaker 3: insert the next MAC. It has to do with speed
- 5:57Speaker 3: and efficiency. And that's what this goes to.
- 6:00Speaker 2: Who in the world goes to the mall, a packed
- 6:04Speaker 2: mall at the highest shopping hour, the most people in
- 6:09Speaker 2: tactical gear, black tactical gear and loaded down with weapons
- 6:15Speaker 2: and AMMO. You were just hearing from our friends at
- 6:18Speaker 2: WFAA and Fox as well. But now take a listen
- 6:22Speaker 2: now for ysit KTVT.
- 6:23Speaker 6: When I heard those shots and then when the multiple
- 6:25Speaker 6: shots happened, my heart just immediately just dropped hold.
- 6:28Speaker 8: Up and I was on the phone with nine one
- 6:29Speaker 8: one and I was telling them we have a mass
- 6:31Speaker 8: casualty incident.
- 6:32Speaker 10: Spin Hour says he got there before any first responders,
- 6:36Speaker 10: and while a handful of people around him recorded videos
- 6:38Speaker 10: of the bodies on the ground, he tried to save lives.
- 6:42Speaker 8: I never imagined in one hundred years I would be
- 6:44Speaker 8: thrust into the position of being the first first responder
- 6:48Speaker 8: on the site to take care of people.
- 6:50Speaker 10: Spin Hour says despite applying CPR, at least three of
- 6:53Speaker 10: the victims could not be saved.
- 6:56Speaker 8: The first girl I walked up to was crouched down
- 6:59Speaker 8: covering her head in the bushes, so I felt for her.
- 7:01Speaker 8: Polls pulled her head to the side and she had
- 7:04Speaker 8: no face.
- 7:04Speaker 2: The eyewitness descriptions coming out of the mall are overwhelming,
- 7:10Speaker 2: you know, to Karen start joining us, renowned psychologists joining
- 7:14Speaker 2: us out of Manhattan Trauma and crime expert at Karenstark
- 7:17Speaker 2: dot com.
- 7:18Speaker 1: As Karen with a c did you hear what the
- 7:20Speaker 1: witness just said?
- 7:22Speaker 2: He said a lot of people as he was rushing
- 7:24Speaker 2: to try to do CPR on the victims, many of
- 7:27Speaker 2: them already dead. Other people got out their phones and
- 7:31Speaker 2: started videoing the dead bodies.
- 7:33Speaker 1: What is that?
- 7:34Speaker 11: Well, if you think about it, Nancy, I mean, so
- 7:36Speaker 11: much of our culture these days is about taking photographs
- 7:40Speaker 11: and sealthies.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Is that what you blame it on, Karen Stark? Our culture?
- 7:44Speaker 11: Well, that's how their respond to a crisis. That you
- 7:47Speaker 11: sort of separate yourself from what's happening and you put
- 7:51Speaker 11: your phone in front of you. And that's a coping mechanism.
- 7:55Speaker 11: Even though it's not what you would expect people to do,
- 7:58Speaker 11: they really are coping by taking pictures and removing themselves.
- 8:03Speaker 2: They are vultures. You call it a coping mechanism. They
- 8:07Speaker 2: are taking video and pictures of dead victims on the ground.
- 8:14Speaker 2: How are those victims' families going to feel when they
- 8:16Speaker 2: see that? Joining me an all star panel in addition
- 8:19Speaker 2: to Joscott Morgan out of Jacksonville State University and Karen
- 8:23Speaker 2: Stark Psychologists, I want to go to the chief investigative
- 8:26Speaker 2: reporter with dailymail dot Com, Jen Smith.
- 8:30Speaker 1: Jen, tell me what happened?
- 8:32Speaker 12: Well, as you were still learning a lot about what happened,
- 8:35Speaker 12: and this happened on Saturday afternoon, and what we know
- 8:38Speaker 12: so far is that it was around three thirty pm
- 8:42Speaker 12: when the first calls came in or a mass shooting incident. Now,
- 8:47Speaker 12: actually some of the first people to be involved were
- 8:50Speaker 12: police officers who were at them all already dealing with
- 8:53Speaker 12: another unspecified incident. So what we know is that this
- 8:58Speaker 12: shooting began insider directly outside the H and M outlet.
- 9:03Speaker 2: Jen Smith, I'm getting a ton of questions even as
- 9:06Speaker 2: you speak.
- 9:07Speaker 1: So the shooting starts at an H and M. Is
- 9:11Speaker 1: that correct?
- 9:12Speaker 12: That's what we believe so far. Yeah, either directly inside
- 9:15Speaker 12: or just outside the H and M in this.
- 9:17Speaker 1: Mall Okay, right there.
- 9:19Speaker 2: I find that really disturbing because the shooter picks a
- 9:24Speaker 2: location that's practically all women and young girls, and that's
- 9:32Speaker 2: where I start shooting.
- 9:33Speaker 1: At H and M.
- 9:33Speaker 2: How many times have I gone up and down those
- 9:36Speaker 2: aisles with my daughter, up and down, up and down.
- 9:39Speaker 2: And as you heard that, one witness state that he
- 9:42Speaker 2: thought it was anything but gunshots. Didn't want to believe
- 9:46Speaker 2: it was gunshots. And can you imagine all the little
- 9:49Speaker 2: girls in there with their moms and they hear gunshots
- 9:52Speaker 2: of this freak.
- 9:53Speaker 1: Go ahead, Jim, that's right.
- 9:54Speaker 12: Now, and say, I mean really targeting the most vulnerable people,
- 9:57Speaker 12: which said a lot about this person. Right. So, we
- 10:00Speaker 12: know that there are eight victims. We don't know who
- 10:04Speaker 12: all of these victims are. Only two have been identified
- 10:07Speaker 12: so far, but I can tell you that their ages.
- 10:09Speaker 12: Nan See, the youngest was five years old.
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- 11:57Speaker 13: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace to Nicole de Boord hotch
- 12:04Speaker 13: Glow joining us.
- 12:06Speaker 2: A veteran criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor. She is
- 12:11Speaker 2: at Houston Criminal Defense dot Com. Nicole. I don't know
- 12:15Speaker 2: if you ever feel this way. I know you can't
- 12:16Speaker 2: comment on any specific case, but we've got a guy
- 12:22Speaker 2: with army style, military style weapons, dressed in tactical gear,
- 12:28Speaker 2: loaded up to the hilt with AMMO. You just heard
- 12:32Speaker 2: Joe Scott Morgan describe. I don't know why. I'm actually
- 12:36Speaker 2: shocked that one of the victims is five years old
- 12:41Speaker 2: at the mall with mommy. I don't know why I
- 12:45Speaker 2: would expect anything different from this guy, but a five
- 12:50Speaker 2: year old.
- 12:51Speaker 14: It's heartbreaking, and I would say, you know, as much
- 12:54Speaker 14: as we do see really awful things from time to time,
- 12:57Speaker 14: the moment something like that stops shocking us, it's time
- 12:59Speaker 14: to hang it up and do something different.
- 13:01Speaker 12: It is shocking.
- 13:02Speaker 14: It's just absolutely horrific, and the people who just saw
- 13:07Speaker 14: what happened on the scene are just going to be
- 13:11Speaker 14: traumatized for a lifetime as a result. And the victims
- 13:15Speaker 14: who passed away because of this person's actions make this
- 13:20Speaker 14: just an absolutely unspeakable and horrific crime.
- 13:23Speaker 1: Joining me IRV.
- 13:24Speaker 2: Brandt, Senior Inspector US Marshall's with the International Investigations Branch,
- 13:29Speaker 2: Chief Inspector DOJ, author of Solo shot, author of Flying
- 13:34Speaker 2: Solo Top of the World on Amazon.
- 13:37Speaker 1: V Brandt.
- 13:37Speaker 2: I'm thinking about what Nicole de Bord hotch Clube just said,
- 13:40Speaker 2: and I suddenly remembered one Actually, the first time I
- 13:47Speaker 2: saw an autopsy photo, I was knew at the DA's office,
- 13:51Speaker 2: and it was of my first murder victim case that
- 13:55Speaker 2: tried that I represented the victim. Her name was Mary,
- 13:59Speaker 2: and I've met ever forgotten it. And I've seen many
- 14:03Speaker 2: many other homicide victims, many other death scenes, many other
- 14:09Speaker 2: autoxies as they were happening. But that photo of her face,
- 14:16Speaker 2: I can't ever forget. And I'm thinking, and I'm in
- 14:21Speaker 2: the business in LA law enforcement for people civilians that
- 14:26Speaker 2: have never seen.
- 14:27Speaker 1: Anything like this.
- 14:29Speaker 2: I mean, it haunts even me much less people that
- 14:33Speaker 2: are just there at the mall, you know, in the
- 14:36Speaker 2: food court getting an anti An's pretzel or whatever they're getting.
- 14:41Speaker 2: It just I don't think they'll ever forget it, much
- 14:44Speaker 2: less of these victims' families. And Nicole said, if you
- 14:47Speaker 2: are not shot by a five year old getting gunned
- 14:49Speaker 2: down at a mall, then you need to get out
- 14:52Speaker 2: of the business.
- 14:53Speaker 15: That's exactly right, Nancy.
- 14:54Speaker 2: I mean, I feel sick right now, I actually feel sicker.
- 14:59Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Go ahead.
- 15:00Speaker 15: The witnesses, to the victims to this, they're going to
- 15:02Speaker 15: be scarred for life. Just like you said the first time.
- 15:06Speaker 15: It's not like these people are hardened veterans that have
- 15:10Speaker 15: seen it in the course of their life over and
- 15:13Speaker 15: over again. They're civilians and they've never witnessed anything like this,
- 15:17Speaker 15: and the witness something so traumatic, this is just a
- 15:21Speaker 15: tragic incident. They're going to have nightmares and visions of
- 15:26Speaker 15: this that's going to carry through them for the rest
- 15:29Speaker 15: of their lives. They'll never forget it. It's heartbreaking to
- 15:33Speaker 15: think about.
- 15:33Speaker 2: And you know, another thing to most of us on
- 15:36Speaker 2: the panel today, we signed up for it. We know
- 15:39Speaker 2: what we're in for. But not these people. They didn't
- 15:43Speaker 2: sign up for this. With me is a very special guest,
- 15:50Speaker 2: Lisa Fine Cafali. She is a survivor of a mass
- 15:58Speaker 2: shooting at Route ninety one Harvest Music Festival. Lisa, thank
- 16:05Speaker 2: you for being with us. Thank you when you are
- 16:08Speaker 2: hearing us talking about not just the bed that lost
- 16:15Speaker 2: their lives, of all places at a mall where you
- 16:20Speaker 2: know there are children, there are ladies shopping. I remember
- 16:24Speaker 2: my dad Lisa, and it was no small thing. I
- 16:28Speaker 2: could hardly keep up with him when it would rain outside.
- 16:31Speaker 2: He was a heart patient. He would go to them,
- 16:34Speaker 2: making them all and walk like a maniac. There are
- 16:40Speaker 2: elderly there getting their steps in. People are hanging out
- 16:45Speaker 2: at the food court, having a Crispy Kream or a
- 16:48Speaker 2: Chick fil A, and then all of a sudden this
- 16:52Speaker 2: and it reminds me of what you went through at
- 16:55Speaker 2: the music festival, where everybody is having a good time
- 16:58Speaker 2: listening to music and then all of a sudden shots
- 17:02Speaker 2: ring out. I want to know what images from that
- 17:09Speaker 2: shooting stick in your mind and how has it affected you.
- 17:13Speaker 2: I was.
- 17:15Speaker 16: Shocked that I am in a world that is unrecognizable
- 17:19Speaker 16: to me. I had the life before the mass shooting.
- 17:24Speaker 16: I survived, and now it is terrifying to me that
- 17:30Speaker 16: there are evil people that want to kill these beautiful
- 17:34Speaker 16: souls that are just living their lives. The mass shooting
- 17:40Speaker 16: that I went through was a war zone. It was
- 17:44Speaker 16: horror beyond horror. You are listening to people screaming as
- 17:50Speaker 16: they're dying. You are watching men, women, children, families, everybody's
- 17:59Speaker 16: just they're knowing we're going to die. I still can't
- 18:04Speaker 16: believe that my friends and I survived. And every time
- 18:08Speaker 16: and every time these mass shootings happen, it just pulls
- 18:13Speaker 16: me straight to that moment. My heart is beating out
- 18:17Speaker 16: of my chest listening to every word that the panel
- 18:22Speaker 16: and you are saying. It is trauma beyond trauma. I
- 18:27Speaker 16: don't understand it. I hope for a better world. I
- 18:32Speaker 16: feel like I can't even leave my home. I don't
- 18:35Speaker 16: know about any of you, but when I go to
- 18:38Speaker 16: the mall, when I go anywhere, I literally get home
- 18:42Speaker 16: and think to myself, I just survived. That's what trauma.
- 18:47Speaker 1: Does you know?
- 18:48Speaker 2: Lisa fine Cavali joining me, she survived the Harvest Music
- 18:53Speaker 2: Festival mass shooting. What happened at the shooting? What happened
- 18:59Speaker 2: at the festival? What do you recall of it?
- 19:02Speaker 4: One minute?
- 19:03Speaker 16: We are having the time of our lives. It was
- 19:05Speaker 16: the most beautiful three days of a country music Harvest Festival.
- 19:10Speaker 16: The amount of positive energy and just joy where it
- 19:15Speaker 16: was everywhere. It was exciting, it was fun. We were
- 19:20Speaker 16: just getting ready for Jason Aldin to go and do
- 19:24Speaker 16: his amazing concert the last night. Ten minutes prior, my
- 19:30Speaker 16: friend took my picture behind me as Mandalay Bay and
- 19:34Speaker 16: unbeknownst to me, that window is broken and all hell
- 19:39Speaker 16: is about to break loose. And then it happened, and
- 19:43Speaker 16: I knew instantly something was wrong.
- 19:46Speaker 1: I grew up in Idaho.
- 19:48Speaker 16: I know about guns. I had the feeling of we
- 19:52Speaker 16: are all going to die. And we were in VIP section.
- 19:56Speaker 16: We had front row to murder, to mass murder. We
- 20:00Speaker 16: had people dying all around us. We thought we would
- 20:04Speaker 16: never breathe again. Then you do breathe, and then you
- 20:09Speaker 16: think I lived. And fifty eight people plus two more
- 20:13Speaker 16: died later.
- 20:15Speaker 1: They're dead.
- 20:16Speaker 16: I'm alive. Why am I spared? Just like going to
- 20:20Speaker 16: the mall. I have watched that scene over and over
- 20:24Speaker 16: because I feel like an obligation as a survivor to
- 20:28Speaker 16: care about these people, these families. I want to know
- 20:34Speaker 16: what happened to them. I want to feel the grief
- 20:37Speaker 16: for them. It's as if each victim is somebody that
- 20:41Speaker 16: I loved. Because I almost died, I would want somebody
- 20:46Speaker 16: to care about my life and live a legacy to
- 20:50Speaker 16: help make the world a better place.
- 20:53Speaker 2: Guys, you are hearing the voice of Lisa Fine Cavali,
- 20:57Speaker 2: who somehow managed to serve the Harvest Music Festival. And
- 21:03Speaker 2: when she tells us when she heard about this mall shooting,
- 21:08Speaker 2: it was as if she were right back and Harm's way.
- 21:12Speaker 2: Take a listen to our cut twenty four.
- 21:15Speaker 17: Terrified concert goers running for their lives, others diving for cover,
- 21:19Speaker 17: some laying on top of each other for safety. By
- 21:22Speaker 17: some accounts, the bullets raining down for more than an hour, and.
- 21:26Speaker 18: They cut the music and everyone said drop, and everyone dropped,
- 21:29Speaker 18: and then everyone just got up and they said run,
- 21:32Speaker 18: and everyone started stampeding and charging and knocking over grills,
- 21:36Speaker 18: jumping over fences getting out. We tried to run this
- 21:39Speaker 18: way and the same thing happened, and then we just
- 21:40Speaker 18: hid in a bush for like an hour.
- 21:42Speaker 17: Police swat teams tracked the shooter to the thirty second
- 21:45Speaker 17: floor of the Mandalai Bay Hotel.
- 21:47Speaker 2: That from our friends at NBC, guys, that was the
- 21:50Speaker 2: Mandali shooting at the Harvest Music Festival, and now it's
- 21:54Speaker 2: happened again at a Texas mall. And you know, to
- 21:59Speaker 2: Joseph Scott, more than a professor forensics at Jacksonville State University, Joscott,
- 22:05Speaker 2: it's almost as if the sky picked the time when
- 22:10Speaker 2: the most people would be at the mall.
- 22:13Speaker 3: He did, I believe at least. And there's one there's
- 22:16Speaker 3: one image that has been captured online relative to this Nancy,
- 22:21Speaker 3: and that's as hard as it is to describe this
- 22:26Speaker 3: image of these four souls that are all dead and
- 22:31Speaker 3: they're laying in one centralized area. It's not everybody, it's
- 22:34Speaker 3: not every victim, but there is a collection of these
- 22:39Speaker 3: victims and Nancy, when you look at that, it is
- 22:43Speaker 3: a perfect storm because there is only one way to
- 22:47Speaker 3: get out. Just imagine kind of horseshoe shape, and you're
- 22:51Speaker 3: in the backside of the horseshoe at the top, and
- 22:54Speaker 3: there's only one way out, and that is to run
- 22:56Speaker 3: back toward the shooter. And so they're corralled in that
- 23:01Speaker 3: area and you you actually have the bodies of these
- 23:05Speaker 3: little ones that are lying there among the adults as well. So, yeah,
- 23:10Speaker 3: when you say that he picked this time out, I
- 23:14Speaker 3: would agree with you to that point, because you know,
- 23:18Speaker 3: you know, the reality is it's in the middle of
- 23:21Speaker 3: the day. Essentially, you've got a lot of shopping going on.
- 23:25Speaker 3: If anybody were of a mind to do this sort
- 23:29Speaker 3: of thing, you would have the access to the most
- 23:31Speaker 3: targets and of course, targets are actually a dehumanizing way
- 23:36Speaker 3: of saying victims. There're human beings that it's happened to,
- 23:39Speaker 3: and it is an absolute horror show.
- 23:41Speaker 2: You know, Jo Scott, the way you're describing the type
- 23:43Speaker 2: of AMMO this freak brings into the mall, this made
- 23:47Speaker 2: my stomach hurt. It's like he's going to some type
- 23:50Speaker 2: of play acting, like a theater where he is the star,
- 23:55Speaker 2: and he dresses up in his outfit and his costume
- 24:01Speaker 2: and he gets all of his AMMO and then he
- 24:04Speaker 2: goes to the mall, which is where so many people
- 24:08Speaker 2: go on a Saturday afternoon. It's packed with women and children,
- 24:13Speaker 2: and there he unleashes pure hell. You know, that's one
- 24:18Speaker 2: thing that I really stress in the book Don't Be
- 24:21Speaker 2: a Victim is to wherever you go, you look for
- 24:25Speaker 2: the exit.
- 24:26Speaker 1: Wherever you are, you find the exit.
- 24:28Speaker 2: And I rehearse and rehearse with the children, where's the exit,
- 24:31Speaker 2: Where's the exit, Where's the exit?
- 24:33Speaker 1: They think I'm crazy?
- 24:34Speaker 2: And you know, Karen start, we were talking earlier about
- 24:36Speaker 2: how these victims, at first they were coming up with
- 24:40Speaker 2: any idea, any theory about what they were hearing, as
- 24:43Speaker 2: opposed to gunshots, and I have the exact opposite. Whenever
- 24:47Speaker 2: I hear anything, I'm like, is that a gunshot? That's
- 24:50Speaker 2: a gunshot. It's just a mindset and to be so
- 24:53Speaker 2: cruelly wrenched into the reality of what's happening and then
- 24:57Speaker 2: everybody just starts running. And I understand from Jen Smith
- 25:03Speaker 2: that many people were lying on top of other people
- 25:07Speaker 2: trying to protect them.
- 25:09Speaker 1: That's what happened.
- 25:10Speaker 11: Karen Starr, Well, there were parents that were on top
- 25:13Speaker 11: of children, trying to protect them. And this guy was talking.
- 25:18Speaker 1: About a mother.
- 25:20Speaker 11: You know, when he turned her over, there was a
- 25:22Speaker 11: child underneath, and then the child wanted to know about
- 25:25Speaker 11: his mother. It's just horrific, Nancy. And the point here
- 25:30Speaker 11: is that this guy wanted to be the center of attention.
- 25:35Speaker 11: He intentionally dressed the way he dressed and picked that
- 25:39Speaker 11: time of day and the weekend because he wanted to
- 25:42Speaker 11: get as many people as he could and as much
- 25:45Speaker 11: attention as possible.
- 25:47Speaker 16: That is so often the motivation.
- 25:50Speaker 11: These are angry, angry people motivated by hate, and they're
- 25:55Speaker 11: going to make sure that they are in a place
- 25:57Speaker 11: where everyone can know what they did.
- 26:00Speaker 2: Following up all at Karen Stark just told US psychologists
- 26:03Speaker 2: joining us out of Manhattan take a listen to our
- 26:06Speaker 2: friends at KTI VT.
- 26:08Speaker 10: Spain Hour says he found a child that survived well,
- 26:11Speaker 10: covered by his protective mother who died.
- 26:13Speaker 8: And so when I rolled the mother ower, he came
- 26:15Speaker 8: out and I asked him where you're okay, and he said,
- 26:18Speaker 8: you know, my mom is hurt. My mom's hurt. So
- 26:21Speaker 8: rather than traumatizing anymore, I put him around the corner
- 26:24Speaker 8: set him down. He was covered from head to toe
- 26:26Speaker 8: like somebody had poured blood on him.
- 26:28Speaker 10: It's that awful image that spain Hour and others who
- 26:31Speaker 10: witnessed the horror will be haunted by for the rest
- 26:34Speaker 10: of their lives.
- 26:35Speaker 1: Who is this guy? What happened to?
- 26:40Speaker 2: Jen Smith, joining US chief investigative reporter with dailymail dot com,
- 26:44Speaker 2: Take a listen to this.
- 26:45Speaker 19: The first gunfire came in around three point thirty Saturday afternoon.
- 26:49Speaker 19: That's when witnesses say a man dressed in black, wearing
- 26:51Speaker 19: body armor looking similar to a police officer, began walking
- 26:55Speaker 19: through the mall property here, firing indiscriminately, sending thousands of
- 27:00Speaker 19: people running for cover.
- 27:01Speaker 20: Up.
- 27:01Speaker 21: About thirty minutes outside Dallas is the Allen Premium outlets.
- 27:06Speaker 21: It's a sprawling shopping center that has one hundred and
- 27:08Speaker 21: twenty four apparel stores. There are also six chain restaurants
- 27:12Speaker 21: in the outlet mall. Starbucks is one of them. Simon
- 27:15Speaker 21: Property Group owns the center. The Large Real Estate Investment
- 27:18Speaker 21: Trust has more than two hundred shopping mall properties worldwide.
- 27:22Speaker 2: Back to Jen Smith joining us from deallymail dot com,
- 27:25Speaker 2: what can you tell me about how he entered this mall?
- 27:29Speaker 2: How nobody noticed him until really when he first started
- 27:32Speaker 2: aspiring the military great weapon.
- 27:35Speaker 12: Well, like you were just discussing on seeing everybody else,
- 27:38Speaker 12: this guy really wanted to. He did want to make
- 27:40Speaker 12: himself the center of attention. But the way that he
- 27:42Speaker 12: was dressed this tactical gear, some of the survivors said
- 27:46Speaker 12: that they thought he was a police officer or a
- 27:48Speaker 12: security guard in this mall. That's the way he was
- 27:51Speaker 12: presenting himself. So we're not entirely sure how he got
- 27:55Speaker 12: to the mall. It sounds like he just walked right
- 27:59Speaker 12: on up to it with this weapon. We don't know
- 28:02Speaker 12: a huge amount about this guy. We are still learning.
- 28:05Speaker 12: What we do know is that he had some insignia
- 28:09Speaker 12: on his tactical gear that suggests he was part of
- 28:14Speaker 12: kind of extremist neo Nazi groups. As I say, that
- 28:18Speaker 12: information is still coming out, but by all accounts so far,
- 28:22Speaker 12: he just walked up to the store and unleashed terror.
- 28:26Speaker 2: When you say in insignia that suggested he was with
- 28:29Speaker 2: a neo Nazi group, what do you mean by that?
- 28:32Speaker 1: A swastika or what?
- 28:33Speaker 12: No, it wasn't quite a swastika. It was an acronym
- 28:37Speaker 12: for right wing groups, the letters or RWDS. We believe
- 28:42Speaker 12: that that might stand for right Wing Defense Squad something
- 28:46Speaker 12: to that extent. And when investigators began researching this guy's
- 28:52Speaker 12: online presence social media revealed that he had expressed interest
- 28:58Speaker 12: in neo Nazism and other extreme extreme white supremacy group.
- 29:04Speaker 2: And in the Nazi culture, the human life means nothing nothing.
- 29:10Speaker 1: So here we've got this guy.
- 29:14Speaker 2: A neo Nazi, and that's determined after finding a death
- 29:19Speaker 2: squad patch believed to have been on his chest, observed
- 29:23Speaker 2: by witnesses firing an AR fifteen one hundred times, killing
- 29:30Speaker 2: at least eight including children.
- 29:33Speaker 1: Take a listen to Chief.
- 29:35Speaker 2: Brian Harvey with Allen PD and our friends at NBC.
- 29:38Speaker 22: At three point thirty six, This afternoon, one of our
- 29:40Speaker 22: officers was on an unrelated call at the outlet mall.
- 29:45Speaker 22: He heard gunshots, went to the gunshots. He also then
- 29:49Speaker 22: called for ambulances. We have a multi agency response helping
- 29:54Speaker 22: us work the scene.
- 29:55Speaker 19: In the moments before police arrived, we are told that
- 29:59Speaker 19: hundreds did whatever they could inside this.
- 30:01Speaker 1: Property to survive.
- 30:04Speaker 5: So we ran to the back, barricaded it with some
- 30:06Speaker 5: concrete bricks, and then right then on the security camera
- 30:09Speaker 5: and thank god, we wing in the back of that time,
- 30:11Speaker 5: we saw him walk right by, masked up, fake police outfit.
- 30:15Speaker 1: On Did you hear that? Jen Smith?
- 30:18Speaker 2: He was perceived as having on a police outfit, the
- 30:22Speaker 2: one person that people would run two and he's actually
- 30:27Speaker 2: the killer. And then a hero emerges, a cop already
- 30:33Speaker 2: at the mall on an unrelated matter. Maybe it's just shoplifting,
- 30:37Speaker 2: maybe it was a fender bender. He was there at
- 30:39Speaker 2: the mall and he runs, did you hear this? Runs
- 30:43Speaker 2: to the bullets, not a way to safety, but runs
- 30:48Speaker 2: to the sound of gunfire.
- 30:52Speaker 1: Who is that guy, Jen Smith?
- 30:54Speaker 12: Well, we don't yet know his name, but we know
- 30:57Speaker 12: he is a police officer. Like you say, he runs
- 30:59Speaker 12: towards the danger. We will I'm sure find out more
- 31:04Speaker 12: about this man, but I think it's safe to say
- 31:07Speaker 12: that had he not been there, the body current would
- 31:09Speaker 12: have been a lot higher.
- 31:10Speaker 1: Oh gosh, yes, take a listen our friends at MSNBC.
- 31:14Speaker 19: He was described as wearing body armor yasmen, looking very
- 31:17Speaker 19: tactical in nature, very similar to, in fact, a police officer.
- 31:22Speaker 19: And that is how he was described by mother Abby Perez,
- 31:25Speaker 19: who brought her two daughters here and what was supposed
- 31:27Speaker 19: to be a pre summer vacation shopping trip that ended
- 31:31Speaker 19: up with her keeping her two daughters locked in a bathroom.
- 31:35Speaker 2: Guys dressed like a police officer in tactical gear.
- 31:39Speaker 1: What do we know about this guy? Take a listen.
- 31:43Speaker 23: New information tonight on yesterday's Texas Mall shooting. Law enforcement
- 31:47Speaker 23: officials have now identified than suspect who killed eight people and.
- 31:51Speaker 1: Wounded seven more.
- 31:53Speaker 23: Police say he is thirty three year old Mauricio Garcia.
- 31:56Speaker 23: Investigators say he was heavily armed with an AR fifteen
- 31:59Speaker 23: Star rifle, a handgun, and multiple rounds of ammunition.
- 32:03Speaker 1: Eight people were killed before a.
- 32:05Speaker 23: Police officer who was responding to a different call, shot
- 32:09Speaker 23: and killed the suspect.
- 32:10Speaker 20: Neighbors say that they saw the FBI agents show up
- 32:13Speaker 20: about a few hours ago. They tell us the suspected
- 32:16Speaker 20: shooter is in his thirties and has lived here for
- 32:18Speaker 20: as long as anyone can recall. They tell us he
- 32:20Speaker 20: drives a great charger and was always parked in front
- 32:23Speaker 20: of the home, except.
- 32:24Speaker 1: For the last few months.
- 32:25Speaker 20: They did notice that maybe he was not around and
- 32:28Speaker 20: might have moved out. Neighbors say they don't recall any
- 32:31Speaker 20: police activity here or problems.
- 32:33Speaker 2: You're hearing our friends at CBS, what more do we
- 32:35Speaker 2: know about the shooter? Take a listen to our friends
- 32:38Speaker 2: at w FAA.
- 32:40Speaker 20: Neighbors say the suspect always wore some kind of security
- 32:43Speaker 20: guard uniform, although no one saw him with a weapon.
- 32:46Speaker 20: They say he was very quiet, would often walk up
- 32:49Speaker 20: and down the street wearing some kind of hoodie, and
- 32:52Speaker 20: also just not really talking to anybody. They said he
- 32:55Speaker 20: had very unusual behavior. They will likely spend many days
- 32:59Speaker 20: going through through that evidence trying to determine what happened.
- 33:02Speaker 20: I've talked to multiple sources and they are not quite
- 33:05Speaker 20: sure at this point what the motive was. Even after
- 33:08Speaker 20: speaking with the family. Neighbors say that this suspect was
- 33:11Speaker 20: very quiet, kept to himself, but they believed that he
- 33:14Speaker 20: was very had very unusual behavior and sometimes dressed in
- 33:18Speaker 20: gothic wear and kind of stay to himself.
- 33:37Speaker 1: Time Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 33:41Speaker 2: Jen Smith joining as chief investigative reporter with dailymail dot Com.
- 33:45Speaker 2: He dressed up in security guard garb and would go
- 33:50Speaker 2: up the neighbors would see him out on this street.
- 33:54Speaker 2: Was he a security guard? Was he previous military? And
- 33:57Speaker 2: I mean it sounds like you know how children did
- 34:00Speaker 2: dress up like cops. Who is this guy?
- 34:02Speaker 12: Jim, Yeah, I mean, it really is. The picture is
- 34:05Speaker 12: emerging when we know we start the neighbors say that
- 34:08Speaker 12: they thought he was a security guard. That's because of
- 34:11Speaker 12: how he was dressing. Like you mentioned, we've not been
- 34:14Speaker 12: able to verify that this guy actually was a security guard.
- 34:18Speaker 12: You mentioned though military experience. Now we've just learned that
- 34:22Speaker 12: he was in the military. We believe he was in
- 34:24Speaker 12: the army, but he was removed from the Army in
- 34:28Speaker 12: two thousand and eight, and that was over a mental
- 34:31Speaker 12: health concern, Nancy. So clearly there were some red flags
- 34:36Speaker 12: about this guy for a long time, enough to get
- 34:38Speaker 12: him kicked out of the armed forces. We're still trying
- 34:40Speaker 12: to verify exactly what went on there, But aside from that,
- 34:45Speaker 12: we don't know a huge amount about this guy. The
- 34:47Speaker 12: neighbors say they hadn't seen him for several months around
- 34:51Speaker 12: the house. We think he might have been living in
- 34:53Speaker 12: a budget in motel at least in the weeks before
- 34:57Speaker 12: this incident. That's potentially where he was running this atrocious attack.
- 35:02Speaker 12: But really, this picture is only beginning to emerge of
- 35:06Speaker 12: this horristic math murderer.
- 35:08Speaker 2: You know, it's really interesting to IRV Brand, Senior Inspector,
- 35:12Speaker 2: US Marshall Service, DOJ International Affairs and author. You have
- 35:18Speaker 2: hunted down people all over the world with the US
- 35:22Speaker 2: Marshall Service, and this guy has a car parked outside
- 35:27Speaker 2: his family home. I don't know if you've seen the
- 35:30Speaker 2: photos of his neighborhood, but the neighborhood is tree lined with.
- 35:38Speaker 1: Beautiful lawns and lovely brick homes.
- 35:42Speaker 2: I don't know if he was hiding out in some
- 35:44Speaker 2: budget hotel or not, but I know what I'm seeing.
- 35:48Speaker 2: And my point is, IRV, isn't it let me say,
- 35:55Speaker 2: deadly curiosity, how people like.
- 35:59Speaker 1: This guy.
- 36:02Speaker 2: Can blend in with everybody else and you don't understand
- 36:07Speaker 2: what's lurking in their brain.
- 36:10Speaker 15: Yes, Nan, think over the years, I tried to profile people.
- 36:17Speaker 15: There'd be a certain type to a certain crime, and
- 36:20Speaker 15: I found I couldn't do it. It was people I would
- 36:24Speaker 15: look at the pictures or when I did the interviews,
- 36:26Speaker 15: or when I made the arrest. It took me by
- 36:29Speaker 15: complete surprise. It was someone that you would walk by
- 36:33Speaker 15: and target, or someone you would walk by in the
- 36:37Speaker 15: grocery store, someone that you might have a conversation with
- 36:41Speaker 15: at a coffee shop while you're standing in line. Just
- 36:45Speaker 15: like you said, you look at the tree lined neighborhood
- 36:50Speaker 15: and it's hard to envision that this type of person
- 36:54Speaker 15: lived here, but they do. And it can happen anywhere,
- 36:58Speaker 15: and it could and it could be anybody standing next
- 37:00Speaker 15: to you. And that's what's so terrifying about this.
- 37:03Speaker 2: Wearing a patch that says rwdst right wing death squads,
- 37:12Speaker 2: and he is he's showing it to the world. Nicole
- 37:17Speaker 2: Devart hots Globe, a high profile lawyer joining us. This
- 37:21Speaker 2: is her jurisdiction of Texas. It's one thing to have
- 37:26Speaker 2: neo Nazi beliefs that you keep to yourself, but he
- 37:30Speaker 2: was proudly wearing that patch emblazon on his cop slash
- 37:35Speaker 2: and military tactical uniform.
- 37:38Speaker 1: He was proud of it.
- 37:39Speaker 14: Yeah, No, it's definitely disturbing, and it's certainly, in hindsight,
- 37:42Speaker 14: a red flag. And you know, I think a lot
- 37:45Speaker 14: of us probably don't go walking around thinking about what
- 37:48Speaker 14: those initials might stand for, but it's probably in the
- 37:52Speaker 14: future something good to make note of. If you see
- 37:55Speaker 14: people wearing that kind of hate insignia, that maybe that's
- 37:59Speaker 14: somebody that we need to keep a pretty close eye on.
- 38:03Speaker 14: This is somebody who is wanting the world to know
- 38:06Speaker 14: how hateful they are.
- 38:07Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting when she says that, you know,
- 38:11Speaker 2: to Lisa Fine Cavali, survivor of the horrible, horrible Mandale
- 38:18Speaker 2: shooting outside the Harvest Music Country festival. Same thing in
- 38:23Speaker 2: Parkland shooting, same thing at Mandalay.
- 38:28Speaker 1: A guy that was.
- 38:30Speaker 2: Suspicious, a guy that raised red flags, but there seemingly
- 38:39Speaker 2: was not enough for authorities to act on. I mean,
- 38:42Speaker 2: in Parkland shooting, that actually went online and talked about
- 38:46Speaker 2: how he wanted to shoot up the school, but yet
- 38:50Speaker 2: it still happened. So how does it make you a
- 38:54Speaker 2: survivor of this type of mass shooting when you know
- 39:01Speaker 2: there are red flags, but no one acts on them.
- 39:06Speaker 16: It makes me angry and it makes me terrified that
- 39:12Speaker 16: we don't have a system that can catch evil, evil
- 39:16Speaker 16: people that intend to kill innocent lives. It makes no
- 39:21Speaker 16: sense whatsoever.
- 39:24Speaker 1: We are not protected.
- 39:27Speaker 16: And I always wonder, you know it happened to me,
- 39:31Speaker 16: so I have a completely different feeling about the world.
- 39:37Speaker 16: I wonder when it happens to the people that make
- 39:43Speaker 16: the decisions, our leaders. I hope it never does, but
- 39:47Speaker 16: when it happens to your family, you look at everything different.
- 39:52Speaker 2: Guys, I want you to hear our friends at Fox
- 39:56Speaker 2: for Dallas.
- 39:58Speaker 7: Hundreds we're left to watch invest stigators swarmed the scene
- 40:01Speaker 7: from across Chelsea Boulevard, waiting for loved.
- 40:04Speaker 1: Ones to come pick them up. We heard what we
- 40:07Speaker 1: thought was like fireworks and then people running.
- 40:12Speaker 7: Sandra McKinley and her thirteen year old son Ryan were
- 40:15Speaker 7: huddled inside American Eagle.
- 40:17Speaker 16: I think a lot of us were hoping that maybe
- 40:21Speaker 16: everything he wasn't really happening, you.
- 40:23Speaker 1: Know, and our friends at w f AA.
- 40:26Speaker 9: So when I get out of the store, the ghost city,
- 40:29Speaker 9: like I don't seen nobody. I keep walking everybody like
- 40:33Speaker 9: others were local every shop, keep people inside, I said me,
- 40:37Speaker 9: I was keep walking on so right, see that they
- 40:41Speaker 9: see that people bodies.
- 40:43Speaker 1: And he's bodies. Yeah, tell tell me what he saw.
- 40:47Speaker 1: He's uh.
- 40:49Speaker 9: People were injured, very really bad, so bad boy.
- 40:53Speaker 19: How many bodies do you think he saw all that?
- 40:56Speaker 4: I guess seven.
- 40:57Speaker 12: It was very bad man.
- 40:58Speaker 9: I should you there are too?
- 41:01Speaker 15: Uh?
- 41:02Speaker 9: I did they give the shoots? Give him all the
- 41:05Speaker 9: way ground? Probably fight at stores, you know, they give
- 41:10Speaker 9: shooted as a glass broken and everything. Like I said,
- 41:14Speaker 9: security war too. It was dead too.
- 41:17Speaker 1: That's right.
- 41:18Speaker 2: The neo Nazi killing machine is dead. Jen Smith dailymail
- 41:24Speaker 2: dot com. Did the hero cop gun down the shooter?
- 41:28Speaker 12: He did, yeah. Immediately upon locating this guy, he trained
- 41:33Speaker 12: his weapon on him.
- 41:34Speaker 1: We actually believe that he killed.
- 41:36Speaker 12: Him with a single gunshot wound to the head. That's
- 41:39Speaker 12: what one of the people who saw the shooter's body
- 41:41Speaker 12: afterwards reported that he was shot in the forehead. So
- 41:45Speaker 12: thankfully this guy who happened to be there, he didn't hesitate,
- 41:49Speaker 12: He ran towards the danger and he took the shooter
- 41:52Speaker 12: out immediately. We know that after that, some of the
- 41:56Speaker 12: people who were injured were taken in police cars. To
- 41:59Speaker 12: the whole hospital because their injuries were so severe Nancy,
- 42:03Speaker 12: that there was no time to wait for ambulances to arrive.
- 42:07Speaker 12: So thank God that this police officer was there, and
- 42:10Speaker 12: that he took things into his own hands when he
- 42:13Speaker 12: saw that there was a danger.
- 42:14Speaker 2: Thank God for this hero cop and for the police
- 42:17Speaker 2: officers that go toward the danger, not running away from
- 42:22Speaker 2: the danger, saving the lives of so many by loading
- 42:26Speaker 2: them up in their squad cars and rushing them to hospitals,
- 42:30Speaker 2: not even waiting for ambulances.
- 42:32Speaker 1: We wait as the facts unfold. Good, my friend,