CBS Evening News - 2014-05-24
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[0:00] Tonight, mass murder. Shots fired. Shots
[0:03] fired. At least seven people are dead
[0:05] near a campus in Santa Barbara,
[0:06] California. Danielle Nodingham on the
[0:09] troubled young man who appears to have
[0:10] pulled the trigger and what police
[0:13] already knew about him. Tomorrow is the
[0:16] day of retribution.
[0:18] Pope Francis begins his tour of the
[0:20] Middle East in Jordan. Alan Pizzy is
[0:23] tracking the Pope's historic mission and
[0:25] a stop sign on one of the best known
[0:27] streets in America. John Blackstone with
[0:30] the twists and turns of a move to shut
[0:33] down Lombard Street.
[0:38] This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:44] Good evening. I'm Jim Axelrod and this
[0:46] is a western edition of the broadcast.
[0:48] The sheriff of Santa Barbara, California
[0:50] calls it a case of premeditated mass
[0:52] murder and a Hollywood filmmaker says
[0:54] his son was the gunman. At least six
[0:57] people were shot and killed late Friday
[0:59] night in a student neighborhood near the
[1:01] University of California, Santa Barbara.
[1:03] Law enforcement sources have confirmed
[1:05] to CBS News the gunman was a 22-year-old
[1:08] named Elliot Roger. He also died of a
[1:10] bullet to the head, although it is not
[1:12] clear if he killed himself or was shot
[1:14] by police. Recently, Roger's mother had
[1:17] apparently seen YouTube videos Roger
[1:19] posted mentioning threats of suicide and
[1:22] killing people, and she called the
[1:23] police. A family lawyer says the police
[1:26] interviewed Roger and found him to be a
[1:28] quote perfectly polite, kind, and
[1:31] wonderful human. Danielle Noddingham
[1:33] begins our coverage.
[1:37] We got another gunshot victim at fire.
[1:40] Shots fired. The calls