Shooting Rampage Paralyzes Mesa, Arizona; Caroline Kennedy Was the Subject of Death Threats
COOPER: Late developments in a shooting rampage that paralyzed the city of Mesa, just outside Phoenix, Arizona today. Six people shot, one of them killed in a series of locations this morning. And now a suspect is in custody. He is a skinhead. In fact, he has the actual words skinhead in head tattooed there above his eyebrows or as his eyebrows. You see the number 88 on the side of his face. That's skinhead code for Hail Hitler. The suspect is the man with a long criminal record, as you might imagine. Joining us now is Stephanie Elam in Mesa with the very latest on who he is and what police are saying. Did this guy know the people that he shot or allegedly shot?</s>STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes. Police do believe that this suspect did know the people, at least in the first interaction that he had when he started shooting. Now, just taking a look. It happened right down the street here in Mesa, Arizona. And the man they say his name is Ryan Giroux. They said they have now confirmed that that his name, releasing that name now. The shooting started when he apparently had an argument in a motel room and then outside of that room, they believed, he then shot three people, one of them being a man that has now died. He also wounded two women there. They believe after that point, he started to run to try to get away from this and that's when more people were hurt. There was one student from nearby East Valley Institute of Technology who was injured. And then they also believe the suspect carjacked a Honda, which is still not been recovered and then broke into an apartment. Shot the man there and then broke into an adjacent apartment complex to another apartment unit and shot another man there. Both those men are expected to live. Police believe that he was trying to rob both of those men when he shot them, Anderson.</s>COOPER: Where did they finally find them?</s>ELAM: They actually found him inside of a vacant condominium. He was on the second floor. SWAT, Mesa SWAT was able to surround him, find him. They tasered him to get control of him. He was taken to a hospital where he was treated and released. And at this point, we understand that he is being interviewed by the police department at this time, Anderson.</s>COOPER: All right. Stephanie Elam, thanks very much. Now Caroline Kennedy, she is Washington's top diplomat in Japan, of course. Perhaps, America's best known ambassador peer (ph) and someone who at the very young age saw both her father and uncle murdered. According to Japanese media, authorities there investigating recent death threats against her. This is happening with two American VIPs in Japan and we have seen tonight, growing concern about security of U.S. diplomatic facilities around the world. Jim Acosta has more.</s>JIM ACOSTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The state department said it's taking seriously news reports out of Tokyo that Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of an American political dynasty and U.S. ambassador to Japan, was the subject of death threats.</s>JEN PSAKI, STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON: We take every step possible to protect our personnel. We're working with the Japanese government to ensure that necessary security measures are in place.</s>ACOSTA: State department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the reported phoned in threats to Kennedy and another American diplomat in Okinawa last month they have not prompted security changes at the U.S. embassy in Japan. That's despite the fact that first lady Michelle Obama just landed in Tokyo for an overseas trip that will included a meeting with Kennedy. Former president Bill Clinton was just in Tokyo appearing alongside Kennedy before delivering a speech on her father's legacy which was cut short a half century ago. The president's selection of a child of Pamela to become ambassador to Japan in 2013 was a sign of Asia's growing significance in U.S. foreign policy.</s>THOMAS SCHIEFFER, FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO AUSTRALIA: The Japanese government in particular will take this very seriously. They provide the bulk of the security for the American ambassador. I'm confident that the Japanese will do everything they can to protect Ambassador Kennedy.</s>ACOSTA: Diplomatic personnel in Asia are already on edge after the knife attack on U.S. ambassador to South Korea, Mark Lippert, who is awaiting a security report on that incident.</s>MARK LIPPERT, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH KOREA: I think they're going to get to the bottom of it and take a hard look at all the tactics, procedures in place both here in Seoul and around the world.</s>ACOSTA: State department security overseas is now a constant concern, considering the recent evacuation of U.S. embassy in Yemen, the suspension of consular services in Saudi Arabia, and the closing of the U.S. embassy in Djibouti. As of that apparent threat to Ambassador Kennedy, Japanese media reports say it was phoned in by an English speaking man. But authorities either don't know or they are not saying at this point who that person could be. Jim Acosta, CNN, the White House.</s>COOPER: Well, just ahead, the body camp video showing the fatal shooting by a mentally ill man by police. His mom had called the police to help get her son to the hospital. Details ahead.