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A masked gunman was taken into custody Monday morning after firing a rifle outside of a courthouse in downtown Dallas -- just one block away from where five police officers were murdered in a 2016 ambush attack.

The suspect, in a video posted online by KDFW, was shown running through the parking lot of the Earle Cabell Federal Building before being hit by gunfire from police.

Officials told the Dallas Morning News the gunman, who has not been identified, opened fire shortly before 9 a.m. local time. A witness told the newspaper the shooter fired off rounds for about 45 seconds – and a photographer on-scene reported seeing the glass in one of the building’s revolving doors shattered in the aftermath.

The condition of the suspect is unclear and Dallas police say he is being sent to a local hospital. There were no other reports of injuries.

 
A man is in custody after an exchange of gunfire with federal officers outside a downtown Dallas U.S. court building Monday morning.

Though the man was taken into custody, police are asking people to avoid the downtown Dallas area, specifically near Jackson, Griffin and Commerce streets, as the bomb squad continues to investigate the man's vehicle and surrounding area.

Dallas police tweeted at about 10:25 a.m. that they were planning to do a controlled detonation of the man's vehicle. A short time later, police blew a device attached to the trunk of the vehicle.

Cellphone video shows a man wearing what appears to be body armor firing a gun in front of the Jackson Street entrance of the Earl Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Shooting-Reported-Downtown-Dallas-511399661.html?amp=y
 
A 22-year-old man clad in tactical gear opened fire outside a federal courthouse in Dallas on Monday before being shot dead in an exchange of gunfire with officers, according to reports.
The gunman — identified as Brian Isaack Clyde — died at the scene and was taken to Baylor University Medical Center after he shot a rifle at the downtown Earle Cabell Federal Building, officials said.


 
The grieving parents of the gunman at the Earle Cabell Federal Building in Dallas said they feel their son intentionally missed easy human targets when he sprayed bullets into the building.

Instead, they said, their son knew that the return fire from guards would kill him.

"I ultimately think he didn't want to hurt anybody. I think he went down there purely for 'suicide-by-cop,'" an emotional Paul Clyde said of his son, Brian Isaack Clyde, the ex-Army private who – armed with an AR-15 assault rifle – attacked the federal building Monday morning.

In another development, a federal law enforcement source told NBC 5 Investigates that the FBI received a call about Clyde in July 2016.

The official said the information provided in the call did not contain any specific threat that investigators could act on.

The official was responding to what Clyde’s mother told NBC 5 earlier – that another family member had warned the FBI several years ago that Clyde should be denied access to weapons because of his mental state.

That family member could not be reached for comment.
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Paul Clyde and his former wife, Nubia Brede Solis, said their son suffered from depression, causing him to be hospitalized for two weeks while he was in the Army.

They also said their son felt his illness caused him to be targeted and mistreated by several of his supervisors at Fort Campbell, KY., driving him to leave the Army early, in 2017, with an honorable discharge.

"He said it was terrible, it was degrading as a human being – very degrading," Solis said.

When Clyde was discharged, his mother said, he told her: "I feel like a big weight has been lifted, like I can breathe. I can see the light again."

However, Paul Clyde said he does not believe his son held a grudge against the Army.

"I don't think so. He never talked ill of the Army. He talked ill of how he was treated by certain individuals," he said.

And while he continued to have bouts of depression, his parents said, Clyde seemed better in the days leading up to the attack, texting his dad, and calling his mother, on Father's Day, just a day earlier.
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Fighting to get the words out, Clyde said his son "had demons that he just couldn't fight anymore. And I don't think he could pull the trigger himself."

Both parents say they strongly believe their son went to the Earle Cabell building, not to shoot people, but to be shot.

"My son was a very good shot," Paul Clyde said. "From what I have seen, he had a lot of rounds that could have gone all over the place. That's why I feel that he had no intention of hurting anybody – except one person" – himself, the father said.

Both mother and father said they will forever regret not recognizing just how deeply bothered their son must have been, and they urged others with depression – military and civilians alike – to reach out for help.

"It was a complete shock. I never thought my son would do something like that," Solis said.

"Brian, he was gentle … he was funny, quirky," said Paul Clyde, an Army veteran who remains in the military reserves.

Fighting back tears, he added: "My son was my son. And he was a soldier. And it just seems, in some form or fashion, that I failed to protect him from himself."

 
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