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(CNN) - Pentagon security officer Marvin L. Carraway Jr. saw the man walking toward him. A split second later, he saw the man's gun.

"When I looked at the shooter, he looked at me and I recognized a certain look on his face," said Carraway. "Once I saw that, what went through my mind - 'This is it, something's about to happen.'"

Authorities say John Patrick Bedell arrived at the Pentagon late Thursday with two 9 mm semi-automatic weapons, at least as many magazines, and a vendetta. The 36-year-old had driven from California to Washington wearing a suit and a calm look. He could have passed for any tourist or worker who went through the security checkpoint every day on the way into the Pentagon.

Officer Colin Richards, who mans the booth with Carraway, looked up to see Bedell point his gun at his colleague and fire.

"The shooter was so close," Richards recalled. "I was surprised he missed. I thought he hit Officer Carraway or hit me."

"There was a lot of chaos," said Carraway, a former Marine, who was grazed by Bedell's bullets and suffered minor injuries. FULL STORY

Washington (CNN) - A man who was shot after calmly opening fire on two Pentagon police officers died early Friday, authorities said.

The gunman was John Patrick Bedell, a law enforcement source said. At a Friday morning news conference, Pentagon Police Chief Richard S. Keevill referred to him only as Bedell.

The 36-year-old man lived with his parents in Hollister, California, said Terry Sutherland, a Pentagon spokesman.

Bedell had "no real emotion in his face" as he approached the officers Thursday evening, Keevill said. He pulled a gun out of his pocket when asked for identification to enter the Pentagon, the chief said.

Keevill praised Officers Jeffrey Amos and Marvin Carraway for acting "quickly and decisively to neutralize him as a threat" without hurting anyone else. FULL STORY

The arrest of two men in connection with a string of church fires has people in East Texas breathing a collective sigh of relief today.

Right now the suspects are each charged with one arson count, but authorities believe they're linked to a total of ten fires deliberately set since the first of the year. Our Ed Lavandera is following the story for us.

Read more: Two charged in Texas church fires

Authorities say Joseph Andrew Stack is the man behind the airplane attack on an Austin, Texas office building. So who was he? A father, a software engineer, and former band member of The Billy Eli Band.

Two members of the band, Billy Eli and Rick Furley, joined us on Friday's American Morning.

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"Violence is not only the answer, it is the only answer." Those words from Joseph Andrew Stack as he seethed about the government in an apparent suicide note posted on the Internet before his suicide flight into an Austin building.

What might have pushed him past the boiling point? We talked to Joe Navarro, a former FBI profiler, on Friday's American Morning to help us try to understand.

Read more: 'I have just had enough,' pilot writes

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(CNN) - Robin Dehaven usually replaces windows. On Thursday morning, after a small plane crashed into an Austin, Texas, office building, he was breaking them, having rushed into the burning structure to help people escape.

Dehaven, an Army veteran who works for a glass company, was driving to a job when he witnessed the plane crash. With the building in flames and emergency personnel still minutes away, Dehaven drove his truck to the parking lot.

People in the building were trapped, screaming for help.

"[Other people who'd gathered] said they needed my ladders on my truck, because there were people stuck on the second floor," Dehaven told CNN's "The Situation Room."

He took a ladder off his truck and put it up to a window of a smoke-filled area where five people were trapped.

"The people were kind of in a panic, wanting to get out quickly, of course, so I climbed up into the building with them," Dehaven said. He then broke a nearby window under which the ladder could have better footing, and he helped the five escape, he said. FULL STORY

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