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September 16th, 2013
06:33 PM ET
Navy Yard shooting witness: "I heard four rapid bangs"
Brooke talks with Navy shooting witness Paul Williams about what he saw and experienced after hearing gunfire when arriving at work.
On Twitter
"Disappointing" and "dangerous."
That's how one doctor is describing reports of a party for first responders in LAâ€twitter.com/i/web/status/1…K4
"If you can't get our children into their homerooms, why are you worrying about getting them on the athletic fieldâ€twitter.com/i/web/status/1…bG
"We're having to relive this nightmare over again."
Boston Marathon bombing survivor @rebekahmgregory tellsâ€twitter.com/i/web/status/1…cE
"He was struggling to breathe," says Bridget Botts-Kastern of her 2-year-old son's battle with Covid-19.
"I know tâ€twitter.com/i/web/status/1…UW
The federal judge whose son was killed and whose husband was shot at their New Jersey home last month called for grâ€twitter.com/i/web/status/1…lp
The guy was a paranoid, schizophrenic, disgruntled employee, religious convert, hearing voices! That is the absolute heat of insanity. The crime was the system that allows a guy with the above said descriptions, to obtain a WMD like an assault rifle. And that might only be what we know. Anyone who wants to buy an assault rifle or semi-automatic weapon should be subject to a lengthy background check, including rap sheets, mental institutions, tattoos, drugs etc... There might be a hundred or even a thousand other mental issues with him that he thought were normal and which were totally out of the nrom. I mean the most insane people are the ones who think they are completely normal and always right, and unquestionable, and who yet are underneath, common gum chewing, cigarette smoking, cross eyed, swearing, and I mean totally unvirtuous violent video game players with anger management issues who should be locked up in a cage.