Dots for people between this Min
location and where you are righw
is just moments after the shoot.
APD says there was a carjacking.
They believe that the suspect.
Took a car from Midtown
and drove to Cobb County.
Cobb County recovered that car,
still searching for the suspect,
and there has been a
flurry of police activity.
We want to have you take
a look at your screen now.
This is an example of what we've been seeing.
There was a moment about an houd
a half ago where dozens of polie
officers came running out of tht
construction site near Truis Pa,
all carrying weapons,
jumping into vehicles,
police officers and swap members
from various agencies,
all jumping in their cars,
peeling out, heading in one.
Direction as they were
getting tips and information,
we did hear from Cobb County,
they had a number of false alar.
Nothing had panned out.
But this really speaks to the
intensity of the search that
continues now in Cobb County.
And
there are still so many big questions,
namely and particularly why Cobb County,
what tip led them there,
what information led them there.
We don't fully know that yet.
We do want to bring in Cody Alcn
who's been working his sources for the
past several hours trying to pe.
This puzzle together, Cody,
So let's start with that questi,
if you don't mind.
Do we know anything about why te
focus is now kind of on Cobb Co?
Well, I will tell you there
have been a lot of false calls,
a lot of sightings that have
not been this individual.
But the one piece of information
we've all gotten, my source tol,
I know some other sources have told some
colleagues of ours is that there was a
carjacking shortly after this shooting.
And the focus did go to Cobb Co.
So it's still believed that could have been
this suspect as how they got to Cobb County.
But again it doesn't really make sense
as to what led that man there us
he has ties there's he's from t.
But begs the question then why
did his mom bring him here to
Northside Hospital earlier toda.
So I think that's the $1,000,000 question
is you know is this guy just desperate
and just trying to get away I I.
I don't have that answer.
I think APD and other agencies e
trying to figure that out right.
I know you know, they have his .
They are questioning her,
trying to figure out where is
he going and probably why is
he going in that direction.
I doubt Cody.
And of course the more time that passes,
the more challenging it gets
because time equals geography.
The we're almost up to six hour.
Now he he could cover a lot
of ground if he wanted to go
much further than Cobb County,
but they have to focus on the
area that they know about.
You've talked to a lot of witne.
You've talked to people who
were inside the waiting room
at the time of the shooting,
people that police investigators
have talked to as well.
Yeah, that's right. I got
down here earlier today and I
didn't realize where I was standing at
the moment, but I was actually outside
the doors where these staff mems
and these patients were actually
being interviewed by Atlanta po.
I didn't have a camera.
I didn't put a camera in their .
I just kind of waved around and
just casually talked to them.
I told them who I was,
and then once I came back down to the area,
they opened up about.
What happened,
and you could tell they were still in shock,
but from my understanding and wt
I've been told by several of the
employees inside North Side is that this
suspect came to North Side with his mom.
Now one nurse said they found id
him being 24 years old and he hd
to come with his mother and that
made them believe maybe there ws
something with mental health he,
but that's not confirmed.
They said there was some bickerg
between the mom and this suspec.
But they don't understand what
escalated that bickering into ts
man allegedly pulling out a gun
and shooting these five women.
A lot of things don't make sense about this.
They were also on the 11th floor
of this facility.
So you know, to pull this off,
to get down 11th floors in an elevator,
out the door, carjack somebody possibly,
and get out of the city.
I'll tell you,
a lot of people are surprised
that this suspect is still on te
run this long after the shootin,
with all the resources that have been
going in to track this guy down.
You know, Cody,
that is a really good point,
frankly, that, you know, 11 flo,
they had to get down from the moment.
And it does seem like the
response was relatively quick.
But we were talking how it's jut
a needle in a haystack when youe
talking about a huge metropolitn
area with so many people,
no doubt. In fact, one of the first images
we saw of the suspected gunman ,
was an image that looked
to be inside an elevator.
And his mask was off.
And if you wonder in retrospect,
was that on his way down,
all of these pieces to the puzz,
you hope then come together for
investigators to find him. Cody,
they say he's still armed and dangerous.
They're very concerned.
They want to make sure nobody gets hurt.
Yeah. And they have a $10,000 reward out
for any information leading to his arrest.
And I'll tell you, the public's been great.
They've been getting a lot of c.
I know a lot of those are false calls,
but at least people are paying
attention and looking out for this guy.
And I will tell you this as wel.
I mean, it doesn't seem like ths
guy showed up to the hospital ty
just to carry out a shooting.
That's at least the perspective
I'm getting from talking to peoe
inside the hospital that, you k,
he was brought here by his mom
for some reason.
And it seems like the shooting was secondary.
But, you know,
why did he have a weapon on him?
What kind of weapon to carry
off this type of shooting?
Because I talked to the nurse wo
I talked about early on at 5:00,
o'clock, that, you know,
she was in the back and she heard a pop, pop.
It kind of stopped.
And then it was a pop, pop, pop.
So, you know, that's another question.
Did he come here with that intention or
was he having a mental health crisis?
His mom brought him here.
Maybe she didn't know he was
armed with a weapon.
So you got to feel for his mother as well.
I'm sure this is not how she expected
her day to go with her son who maybe she
was bringing him here to get some help.
Again,
that is just by theory,
but from talking to the nurses,
it's not as if he came right ino
their office and just started
opening fire immediately.
Cody Alcorn appreciate the
inside and all the information.
And we do want to mention that e
police chief did say that the suspects
mother and family has been cooperating
throughout the course of the da.