FBI Deputy Director discusses how Crooks got AR-15 onto the roof
Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories
Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories
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🗓️ 1 August 2024
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| 0:00.0 | In the one question of looking backward to the event on the 13th Director of Bate, can you just talk a little bit about how did Mr. Crooks, how was he able to get an AR-15 onto the roof of that building? |
| 0:20.0 | Does your investigation illuminate anything that we have learned |
| 0:25.9 | to help to make that point more clear? This question is directed to Paul Abadi, who is the |
| 0:33.4 | second in charge at the FBI. We don't have definitive evidence yet as to how he got the rifle up there. |
| 0:40.3 | Based on everything that's been collected thus far, photos, video, eyewitness accounts, |
| 0:46.3 | we do believe he likely had it in the backpack. |
| 0:49.3 | Broken down in the backpack? |
| 0:51.3 | We're still assessing that. |
| 0:53.3 | Our laboratory has taken, it looked at the rifle itself |
| 0:57.1 | and measured that against the backpack itself. |
| 1:00.1 | And if placed in this backpack, it would extend outside. |
| 1:03.9 | It would have been visible. |
| 1:05.3 | We don't have anyone who observed him, |
| 1:07.4 | who observed him with the backpack, |
| 1:09.1 | with a rifle barrel or other part of it sticking |
| 1:13.0 | out of the backpack. But the rifle would not have fit fully into this backpack to be concealed |
| 1:19.3 | and whole. We have video that was recently found of the shooter walking in a distance from his car just before 6 p.m. about 556, I believe. |
| 1:33.7 | And based on everything we have, we assess that he returned to his vehicle at that time, |
| 1:39.5 | got the backpack, and then proceeded back to the area into the AGR building. |
| 1:45.0 | And then he's observed, of course, on the roof just, you know, minutes later holding the backpack in front of him. |
| 1:53.0 | In fact, there's dash cam footage from a police vehicle that shows him briefly traversing the roof with the backpack in front of him. |
| 2:01.9 | And then it's just minutes after that |
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