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WEBVTT GOING BACK TO OUR TOP STORY... EVAN BENNETT KILLED 3 PEOPLE BEFORE TAKING HIS OWN LIFE AFTER A SHOOTING AT THE LEC IN GREENVILLE. FUNERALS FOR TWO SECURITY GUARDS TOOK PLACE TODAY... WHILE INVESTIGATORS CONTINUE TO PIECE TOGETHER THE PAST OF SHOOTER EVAN BENNETT. NEWS FOUR'S STEPHANIE TROTTER JOINS US WITH NEW INFORMATION... STEPH. LATE THIS AFTERNOON... THE POLICE DEPARTMENT RELEASED EMOTIONALLY CHARGED 9-1-1 CALLS MADE FROM BENNETT'S HOME ON AUGUSTA COURT. THE CALL IS JUST ONE MORE PIECE OF EVIDENCE OFFICERS ARE REVIEWING... AS THEY PUT A PROFILE TOGETHER OF EVAN BENNETT. INVESTIGATORS LOOK AT THE FACE... OF EVAN BENNETT... BUT THEY REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON INSIDE HIS HEAD. THEY SAY HE NO LONGER LOOKED LIKE THIS OLD MUG SHOT FROM A DISMISSED STALKING CASE... BUT HAD DONNED A TIGHT MILITARY STYLE HAIR-CUT. AND WE NOW KNOW... MONDAY NIGHT... AT THE FAMILY HOME ON AUGUSTA COURT... HE CHANGED INTO A BLACK TACTICAL VEST, CAMO PANTS, AND FINGERLESS GLOVES BEFORE SHOOTING HIS STEP-FATHER IN THE FACE TWICE WITH A SHOT-GUN. HIS MOTHER'S IS SO DISTRAUGHT IN THE RELEASED 9-1-1 CALL... NEWS FOUR DOES NOT WANT TO AIR IT... BUT SHE BEGS FOR HELP... AND BETWEEN SOBS SAYS... "MY HUSBAND HAS BEEN SHOT." WHEN THE DISPATCHER ASKS IF SHE KNOWS WHO THE SHOOTER IS... SHE BREAKS DOWN EVEN MORE SAYING, "HIS NAME IS EVAN BENNET... HE'S MY SON." AS HIS MOTHER BEGGED FOR HELP... POLICE SAY EVAN WAS ON HIS WAY TO THE L-E-C... WHERE HE AMBUSHED AN OFFICER IN THE PARKING LOT, BEFORE SHOOTING AND KILLING HIMSELF. INVESTEIGATORS SAY THE FAMILY SET OFF THIS SERIES OF SHOOTINGS... BY CONFRONTING EVAN ABOUT THE MURDER OF TWO GUARDS AT THE HOLLINGSWORTH TEXTILE PLANT, AFTER HE'D CONFESSED SOME SORT OF INVOLVEMENT TO HIS BROTHER. THE SHERIFF CALLS BENNET UNSTABLE AND MENTALLY ILL ADDING HE'D GONE TO A PSYCHIATRIST AT LEAST ONCE... BUT WAS TAKING NO MEDICATION. TODAY... THE INTERIM POLICE CHIEF COMPARED THE LONER'S ACTIONS AKIN TO DOMESTIC TERRORISM. "In this situation, you're talking about three different crime scenes that could have ended up in a much worse scenario than what we're looking at right now." AS FOR THE OFFICER WHO WAS SHOT AT THE L-E-C... HE UNDERWENT A SECOND SURGERY THIS AFTERNOON... AND IS STILL LOOKING AT A POSSIBLE THIRD. THE CHIEF TELLS ME HE IS IN GOOD SPIRITS.

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