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Expert fears shooting suspect wants events to play out in front of media
- Duration 2:31
- Date Feb 8, 2013
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More on this guy -- were dealing with here that he is hiding in the -- let's bring in survivalists and wilderness tracker Brian de Saudi it's -- -- brought.
Broadening -- wrong with me he's also former LAPD officer good disease or thank you Brian.
-- how -- serve I'm good this kind of this kind of asserts I know they've trained for it for for many years but actually doing it when you know you have a man wants to murder you can't be easy.
Well what in addition of that chip it's the cold temperatures and if -- if you're the suspect -- -- hunkered down on the mountain.
You don't care -- those twelve inches or 36 inches.
What that snowfall does is for the people trying to track come.
It makes it harder for them to move around right they have to worry about hypothermia they have to worry about their gear.
Getting wet and heavy -- and if they're not trained to hike around on those mountains it's a bigger threat to the searchers that it would be to the suspect if he's still on the mountain.
And getting in and out of these cabins -- a lot of weekend homes up there there's inherent risk there -- well.
There really is you know survive family that owns a home up in there and it can be kind of treacherous and what the new snowfall.
It's hard to get the helicopters up in the air with the heat sensors.
But what scares me even more -- is that when you read his manifesto.
When he writes about.
Securing -- saving his name.
He does it all in capital letters I know you've read it when you see it its capital and AMD.
This guy isn't looking for a firefight on a mountain.
He wants it to go down in front of the media.
His level of -- and as such that he's gonna do with he wants to go out on top of the world.
Not on top of a mountain talked to some mental health professionals professionals who.
Had read this manifested just try to get a six.
What they think is going on its head and one after another says he's not he's not psychotic at all.
Every one of -- mention that word narcissistic.
And they all have the same fear that you do that he -- he wants this to play out.
In some sort of media.
Well I would say let -- when you look at him saying you know all they've done is awaken the giant -- and as you reported he said packages to different news outlets.
He's talking about different celebrities and different people.
He wants this to go down it up populated area.
Where he can get the most amount of media coverage and that fuels his sense of hey -- larger than life this is the sleeping giant.
If if it -- you and I we wouldn't want it to go down on a mountain.
Where there -- -- TV coverage we wanted to get to go down where there as many cameras on us as possible that's my fear and -- going to be to be here thank you.