PBS高端访谈:俄亥俄枪击案调查和受害者情况

Hari Sreenivasan: For more on the investigation¹ and the victims in Ohio, Jim Bebbington, editor of The Dayton Daily News joins us now via Skype. Thanks for being with us. First, let's focus on the victims here. What do we know about the people that were gunned down last night?

Jim Bebbington: Well, we are still putting all of that together. It was a group that included the shooter's sister. That was a new revelation² just a short while ago. So we're looking into family dynamics³ and family issues as to whether that played any role. The others are a very cross section of Dayton. A majority of the victims were African-American last night but there were white victims as well. And it was a group that just locally, I would have thought would be a typical Oregon District crowd on the sidewalk on a Saturday night.

Hari Sreenivasan: And what about all of the people that were taken to hospitals? We heard this morning that a number of them had already been discharged.

Jim Bebbington: Correct. There was one person that was described as being in critical condition and needing to go into surgery. And then there were many people who were discharged already by the time they gave any information out. With everything from shoot in wounds to sprained⁴ ankles and cuts from the chaos⁵ of escaping.

Hari Sreenivasan: This is a tremendous amount of carnage in a minute if that's how long it took for police to respond.

Jim Bebbington: Absolutely. I mean it is something we are also still trying to piece together. The videos that we have seen, we've seen some surveillance videos from neighboring facilities or neighboring bars that add their own cameras out front. And it absolutely it doesn't even look like it takes a minute, it looks like it takes 30 seconds from the videos that I've seen, spraying a crowd, people running going down and then the video that I've seen in particular things calm down almost immediately.

Hari Sreenivasan: Is there anything more about the motivations of the person who did this that's becoming any clearer now?

Jim Bebbington: Well we know 24-year-old gentleman who grew up in our area. We've been looking to speak to anyone who knew him growing up, mining social media. There are some images that if they are him show when he was a young teenager a predilection⁶ towards some fairly violent language that he liked to take pictures of, sketching⁷ us into notebooks that he would then share on social media. So that is what we're seeing.

Hari Sreenivasan: Any sort of membership⁸ and any organizations or nowadays now everybody is kind of interested in message board postings and was there anything like that before this shooter unlike the one in El Paso who decided⁹ to perhaps, law enforcement officials are still connecting the dots there?

Jim Bebbington: Again I wish we knew. We have not found anything to that effect. There are some reports of some family dynamic problems that do go back many years. And so that is actually part of our most focus right now.

Hari Sreenivasan: And what about that district now? Are people back there or the businesses open? Have they just stayed close through the weekend? Is it still an active crime scene?

Jim Bebbington: It is still an active crime scene through the afternoon. There is a evening vigil that is planned right on the street itself after which point the street will be opened up, the crime tape will be taken out. The bars and restaurants in that area some are open this afternoon. The ones that are a block or two away away from the scene.

Hari Sreenivasan: All right. Editor of the Dayton Daily News Jim Bebbington joining us via Skype from Dayton thanks so much.

Jim Bebbington: Thank you.

哈里·斯里尼瓦桑：为了更多有关俄亥俄州调查以及受害者情况的话，我们将通过Skype与《代顿每日新闻》的记者吉姆连线。感谢加入，吉姆。首先，我们先关注一下那里受害者的情况。我们目前了解到关于昨晚受到枪机的人的情况如何呢？

吉姆：受害者情况还在不断更新了解中。受害者群体中包括开枪者的妹妹。这个消息也是刚才才得知的。所以，我们还在了解受害者的家庭情况和家庭问题，想知道家庭因素对于这起事件的影响。其他受害者来自代顿的社会各界。昨晚的大多数受害者都是非裔美籍人，但是其中也有白人受害者。受害者都是代顿当地人，我猜想是周六晚上的人行道上有俄勒冈州地区的人群。

哈里·斯里尼瓦桑：那送往医院的伤者情况如何了呢？我们今早听说，很多人已经出院了。

吉姆：是的。有一人伤情严重，需要做手术。消息传出的时候，有很多人都已经出院了。受伤情况有很多，比如枪伤、脚踝扭伤、慌乱逃跑时受的伤。

哈里·斯里尼瓦桑：如果以警方响应时间的来判断的话，这次的枪击事件可谓是屠杀级别的。

吉姆：确实是这样。这次的事件，我们也还在整理情况。我们看到了一些视频，视频是附近街区或者酒吧里的监控录像（酒吧有外置摄像头）。从视频来看，事件持续时间不是一分钟，看起来像是30秒钟——向人群开火。有人跑下去，然后迅速就安静下来了。

哈里·斯里尼瓦桑：作案人的动机现在明了了吗？

吉姆：我们了解到，作案人24岁，是在代顿长大的年轻人。我们还在试着采访见证他长大过程的人，并全方位通过社交媒体去了解。有一些图像里看到有人长得像他，图像显示，他喜欢说暴力字眼，也喜欢给这样的话截屏。我们还看到他在社交媒体上分享的一些笔记。这是我们目前了解到的情况。

哈里·斯里尼瓦桑：现在，很多很多人和组织都喜欢在留言板上贴东西。请问该作案人之前有做过这样的事情吗？执法人员有找到这次事件和厄尔巴索事件之间的关系吗？

吉姆：这个问题，我现在也还没法给准确的答复。我们目前还没发现蛛丝马迹。有报道称，作案人的行为跟多年前的家庭内部问题有关。所以，现在家庭问题是我们最关注的一个问题。

哈里·斯里尼瓦桑：枪击案发生的街区怎么样了呢？那里的人怎么样了？店铺都还开着吗？他们一整个周末是不是都一直待在一起？现在案件发生现场人多吗？

吉姆：整个下午，人都很多。整条街上进行了一晚上的守夜。在那之后，这条街才开放，那时候才能拿到作案录像。该地区的许多酒吧和餐厅下午都开着。离作案现场大概一两个街区。

哈里·斯里尼瓦桑：好的。感谢《代顿每日新闻》的吉姆通过Skype为我们发回代顿的报道。

吉姆：谢谢大家。

1 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

2 revelation   

n.泄露，揭示，展示，惊人的新发现

参考例句：

• Her true nature was a revelation to me.她的真实性格对我是一个新发现。
• The revelation of the plot of the traitors caused their capture.反叛者阴谋的泄露使他们被捕。

3 dynamics   

n.力学，动力学，动力，原动力；动态

参考例句：

• In order to succeed,you must master complicated knowledge of dynamics.要取得胜利，你必须掌握很复杂的动力学知识。
• Dynamics is a discipline that cannot be mastered without extensive practice.动力学是一门不做大量习题就不能掌握的学科。

4 sprained   

v.&n. 扭伤

参考例句：

• I stumbled and sprained my ankle. 我摔了一跤，把脚脖子扭了。
• When Mary sprained her ankles, John carried her piggyback to the doctors. 玛丽扭伤了足踝，约翰驮她去看医生。

5 chaos   

n.混乱，无秩序

参考例句：

• After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
• The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。

6 predilection   

n.偏好

参考例句：

• He has a predilection for rich food.他偏好油腻的食物。
• Charles has always had a predilection for red-haired women.查尔斯对红头发女人一直有偏爱。

7 sketching   

n.草图

参考例句：

• They are sketching out proposals for a new road. 他们正在草拟修建新路的计划。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• "Imagination is busy sketching rose-tinted pictures of joy. “飞舞驰骋的想象描绘出一幅幅玫瑰色欢乐的场景。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险

8 membership   

n.成员资格，会员全体，从属关系

参考例句：

• I must renew my membership of the sailing club.我必须延续我的航海俱乐部会员的资格。
• He made up his mind to apply for membership in the Party.他决心申请入党。

9 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。