Chilling New 911 Calls from Lafayette Theater Shooting
COSTELLO: The panic and fear from last week's deadly shooting inside that movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, are revealed in newly released evidence. For the first time, chilling surveillance video shows the gunman calmly entering the theater. And moments later 911 calls capture the horrifying aftermath. CNN's Ed Lavandera has more for you this morning. Good morning, Ed.</s>ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol. All these calls and radio traffic and the surveillance video released by authorities there in Lafayette, and as you mentioned, it captures the horrifying moments when this shooting erupted.</s>LAVANDERA (voice-over): Chilling new surveillance video shows Louisiana shooter John Russell Houser buying his movie ticket, calmly walking past a concession stand, and right down the hall, straight into Theater 14. Less than 15 minutes into the movie, Houser pulls out a .40 caliber handgun and fires off at least 13 rounds. These are the frantic 911 calls that began pouring in.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There's a shooting Grand 16.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I mean, he shot right at people.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There's two people shot, two people shot.</s>LAVANDERA: Police race to the scene.</s>POLICE OFFICER: We need everybody over here. Send anybody you got.</s>LAVANDERA: Police say the shooter initially tried to escape by blending into the fleeing crowd.</s>POLICE OFFICER: Everybody hang on. They say he's inside. He is reloading. He has a weapon. We have an active shooter here.</s>LAVANDERA: The presence of law enforcement caused him to turn the gun on himself, according to officials, but not before killing these two women and injuring nine more.</s>POLICE OFFICER: Suspect is down! Suspect is down! We have several more victims inside with gunshot wounds.</s>LAVANDERA: Thursday night in Lafayette --</s>CROWD (singing): Amazing grace.</s>LAVANDERA: -- hundreds attend a celebration in remembrance of the two victims one week after their tragic deaths.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Just want to say thank you for everyone involved in finding my daughter on that horrible day.</s>LAVANDERA: The community-wide event titled Unite, Honor, Heal.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (singing): And God's grace will lead me home</s>LAVANDERA (on camera): And, Carol, of course, these new evidence, these recordings, don't really do much to answer the main question that so many people have: Why would that man who has been described as a drifter come from Alabama, pick this theater in that city? That is a question that still remains unanswered, Carol.</s>COSTELLO: Ed Lavandera reporting live for us this morning. Thank you. Still to come in the NEWSROOM, it is Hillary Clinton versus "The New York Times". Her campaign is taking on the paper for what it calls egregious errors. We'll talk about that next.