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How Cops Captured The Minnesota Mass Shooter · The Empire of Wealth

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Speaker 1: It's midnight at the Shady Oaks apartment complex. A resident
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is walking back to his apartment when suddenly he's shot
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by an unidentified man, a firecracker born. When police rush
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to the scene, they're immediately faced with a barrage of gunfire,
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targeting anyone who moves, and no idea who or how
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many shooters are active, all while dozens of innocent lives
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are at fatal risk.
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Speaker 2: Now just call him down. What kind of injury do
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you have?
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Speaker 3: It's a gunshot?
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Speaker 2: Okay, who shot you?
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna get snipers put up on the east side.
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Speaker 4: Yes, get over here, get over here, we get tell
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the drug now.
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Speaker 1: At approximately two seventeen am on that Sunday night, officers
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receive reports of gunshots near Shady Oaks apartment complex. Minutes later,
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around two twenty am, first responder officer Cody Needham approaches
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the scene to investigate. Little does he know the gunshot
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reports were part of a trap set by the shooters
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and he was driving straight into it.
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Speaker 2: I think I've been shot.
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Speaker 1: Moments after entering the parking lot, Officer need Him is
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struck by a bullet as multiple shots rang out and
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immediately radios nearby officers for backup.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to the hospital. This batch lett you or know.
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There was a rapid succession of shots. Do you know
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where it came from. It's backed by Shady Oaks.
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Speaker 5: There were more shots backed by Shady Oaks.
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Speaker 2: Okay, we need to get a perimeter around this building.
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Speaker 1: Multiple units nearby are now en route to Shady Oaks. However,
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the scale of police response will soon grow much larger
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as officers realize the severity of the situation and the
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danger pose to the civilians. But for now, as backup
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units head towards the scene, Officer need Him speeds towards
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the hospital, still uncertain how severe his injuries are.
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Speaker 6: I have a shot.
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Speaker 3: I don't know what the out.
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Speaker 1: We're here, We'll need him receives urgent medical care. Backup
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Officer Christopher Deson and other units make their way towards
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Shady Oaks, completely unaware they're stepping into a deadly eight
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hour long standoff. In rapidly chaotic incidents like these, officers
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have no choice but to make split second tactical decisions.
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To fully understand how police manage such dangerous situations, We'll
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follow every tactic and decision through every stage of the standoff,
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starting with Officer Deson, who's just arrived on scene to
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a barrage of gunfire erupting unpredictably.
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Speaker 2: We don't know what the coming up in front of
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them right now, what.
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Speaker 5: You've been shot at?
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Speaker 7: Just calm down, calm.
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Speaker 2: Down, high.
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Speaker 1: Who is that your coat? Officer Deson and other responding
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officers quickly take position behind a water pump house located
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near the parking lot on the west side of the complex.
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But there's a more immediate worry weighing on the officers.
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Many civilians remain unaware and exposed, and every gunshot could
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mean another innocent resident being targeted. With dozens of innocent
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lives at stake. Officer Ris Musen and Tim Harves arrive
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near Deson's location on the west side, positioning themselves nearby
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to help scan the area and pinpoint where the gunfire
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is coming from.
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Speaker 7: Sixtys what as I got.
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Speaker 6: Roll the corner up here me in a decent pull
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up here, it was what three four shots?
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Speaker 5: And when I put up here before we got shot out.
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Speaker 2: So somebody shooting out at the window of the building. Chris,
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can you come over here.
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Speaker 5: They're shooting at any law enforcement that comes through. If
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we if we go out any further, we're gonna get
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shot at.
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Speaker 2: If this is an active shooter, we need to get
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a team ready, We need to probably start dealing with it.
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Speaker 1: At this stage, the situation facing officers is extremely dangerous.
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The Shady Oaks apartment complex contains approximately one hundred and
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twenty six units, and with near zero visibility and gunshots
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ringing out unpredictably, police have no way of pinpointing exactly
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where the shooters are located, whether they're barricaded, mobile or
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roaming freely, or even how many shooters are active. What's
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more alarming is that officers don't yet realize they're dealing
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with a carefully planned ambush, and the next few minutes
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will make that terrifyingly clear.
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Speaker 5: We want to get eyes on the we need to
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get cars there, We need to get back over here.
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Speaker 2: Right, yeah, so we're gonna have to. We're probably gonna happen.
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Where the fuck is this guy? He's close, he's outside
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of that.
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Speaker 4: Okay, he's running across you see him?
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Speaker 2: Where that way?
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Speaker 8: Ran that direction?
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Speaker 3: I don't know if you got shot at or what
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the coaches.
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Speaker 7: Ran across the back walk.
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Speaker 5: He's running. I don't know if it was him or
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someone that got shot at. Correct they ran out here
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in that direction. You know they're behind the trees here
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other side of the trees. I think that's a high
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pod rifle, something high.
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Speaker 3: Calm down, Do not bowl me over.
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Speaker 2: Shot shot house.
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Speaker 5: It's coming from the front of the building and impact
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in the road.
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Speaker 2: I'm a little foreign.
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Speaker 1: One of the shots officers just heard was aimed at
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a resident who stepped outside the building, completely unaware of
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the active threat. He was struck and immediately ran away.
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With danger escalating and officers still unsure how many shooters
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they're dealing with or even where the next shot might
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come from, their immediate focus shifts to two critical priorities. First,
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identify and engage the source of the gunfire. Second, secure
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the perimeter and evacuate civilians inside and outside the building
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to prevent further casualties. However, officers still don't have a
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key to access the building from any side, adding a
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major complication their plan. So to move forward, Officer Decon
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and Harve's formulate a tactical plan. One group remains in position,
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carefully engaging and distracting the shooters to pinpoint their exact
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locations and number. Meanwhile, a second group cautiously moves around
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the perimeter, evacuating civilians from areas exposed to gunfire. It's
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that said, let's get back to the scene. The evacuation
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team is about to spread out and begin sweeping the
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west side of the perimeter. With the shooter's identities still unknown,
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they have to treat everyone they encounter as a potential threat.
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Speaker 7: Come here, hey, come here? Do you have a keyp
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up of the building? Okay?
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Speaker 2: Are you okay? Yeah? Shooting?
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Speaker 7: You need to go to Sea univers I heard it.
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Drop your car.
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Speaker 6: It's the second floor, so you think it's the.
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Speaker 8: Second floor in the side.
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Speaker 7: Okay, go back to your car, staying there?
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Off a service muse and manages to clear this first
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encounter with a residence safely, but as he moves further
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into the parking lot, he spots someone he believes might
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be one of the shooters.
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Speaker 9: H stop right now, stop, turn around, drop your knees.
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I got a guy that just walked out. He's in
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the parking lot. I got on my cup point. I
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need somebody in here. Stay where you're at right now. Okay,
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we've got somebody shooting from your building right now.
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Speaker 7: Okay, okay, okay, hey him, go to him.
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Speaker 2: Stop.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, come here, come here, come here, this police department.
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Speaker 2: Come here.
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Speaker 7: There's somebody shooting from your building right now. Okay, keep
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your hands out of your pockets. Please go to that
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red car over there.
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Speaker 6: Go.
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Speaker 1: The individuals turn out to be residents, completely unaware of
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the danger they've just narrowly avoided, but Resmusin's attention quickly
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shifts towards two more residents exiting from the back of
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the building, one clearly injured and struggling.
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Speaker 7: Keith, you got up in the building. Okay, come on,
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come on.
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Speaker 2: Right here. No, I handed my boon off. I have
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no way back.
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Speaker 7: Okay, Well you're not going back in anyway, So you're fine.
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Are you heard it all through? You're just the one?
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Speaker 8: Okay, I'm right here that might pull right there the light.
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Speaker 2: Okay, what kind of injury do you have.
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Speaker 3: It's a gunshot.
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Speaker 2: Okay, who shot you?
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 7: I come out that door.
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Speaker 3: We just came out of with spacing that away and
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that's when I got shot.
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Speaker 2: Okay, come right over here, sir. Just hop right into
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the back seat on that side.
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Speaker 1: One of the civilians encountered by police is Shady Oaks
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resident Daniel Thorpe, the same person officers spotted running away
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earlier after being targeted by gunfire. Daniel is now the
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second confirmed victim, following Officer Cody need Him. Unfortunately, they
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won't be the only casualties as the night continues.
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Speaker 4: Okay, she has been Get over here, Get over here,
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we can tell the.
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Speaker 2: Run now.
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Speaker 1: By now, multiple SWAT teams have been requested to assist
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with the situation, but Daniel's close call underscores just how
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deadly the situation remains for the countless residents both inside
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and outside the complex. Many of them are still going
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about their night, not even realizing they're in any danger. Thankfully,
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Officer Vis Musen gained crucial intel from the woman he
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encountered outside the building. According to her, the shots appeared
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to originate from an apartment on the front side of
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the building, possibly on the second floor. But most importantly,
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she provides the officer with a key to access the building.
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With dozens of innocent lives still at risk, police urgently
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need to devise a plan to infiltrate the building and
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evacuate residents before the shooters have a chance to move positions,
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or worse, start targeting residents door to door. If the
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next steps aren't executed perfectly, the consequences could be catastrophic.
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With this in mind, Officer Tim Harves repositions to a
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parking lot near giant washed Skyline Express just southeast of
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Shady Oaks to meet with command, await incoming SWAT teams
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and strategize their next move level.
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Speaker 2: We haven't been able to get in vacumen. They were
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thinking maybe like second floor, but now Chris is saying
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there's movement on seventh. But there's movement all over. If
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you watch those windows, nobody's identified where or who.
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Speaker 6: Once I get more SWAB bodies in, I'm going to
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start forming up some perimeter teams to take over a perimeter.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna get snipers put up on the east side. Yes, yeah,
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so I think have been coming from the front of
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little area.
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Speaker 1: By this stage, police have gained important but conflicting information
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about the shooters. Witnesses indicate activity on the second floor
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at the front of the building, yet Officer Deson's group
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has reported suspicious movement higher up, possibly as high as
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the seventh floor. With these conflicting reports, the situation remains
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risky and unpredictable, so to gain some control, multi jurisdictional
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SWAT teams are now en route to help secure the
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building's perimeter, deploy snipers, and infiltrate the complex to evacuate
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civilians trapped inside. In the meantime, Officer Christopher Dison and
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his group continue to hold a critical position at the
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west end, actively scanning the building to pinpoint how many
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shooters they were dealing with and their locations of fire.
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Speaker 3: Yep, how much wander there's.
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Speaker 5: Correct correct. Some are moving towards thee that did hit
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across the street, right across the street from me.
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Speaker 3: It sounded like a bird shot well.
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Speaker 1: Officer Decent's team continues to hold their position on the
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west side. A critical oversight is exposed in the perimeter setup.
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Road closures intended to prevent civilian traffic from entering the
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active shooting zone were established quickly enough, allowing unaware drivers
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to slip through. This major flaw is about to lead
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to disastrous consequences.
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Speaker 5: What how did you you going go?
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Speaker 3: Go out there?
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Speaker 1: Fortunately, this first vehicle manages to pass without getting hit,
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but just minutes later, officers spot another set of headlights approaching,
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heading directly into the line of fire.
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Speaker 7: Fired half calf tired, No.
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Speaker 10: Direct Maybe they're not ating directly vehicle coming northbound on.
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Speaker 1: Fourth Officers quickly realized the rapid succession of shots was
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not directed at them, but at a civilian vehicle passing
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by the front of Shady Oaks. After being hit, the
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driver continues forward, eventually stopping on the west side, still
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within the active firing zone, but close to where officers
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are positioned, and that's when they hear the driver's disturbing screens.
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Speaker 3: Get over here, I don't.
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Speaker 7: I don't come.
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Speaker 8: Alone. You have.
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Speaker 7: I think it's just through and through?
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Speaker 2: How girl? Friend?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we can't get up there right now. We cannot
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get up there right now.
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Speaker 1: The injured driver was struck in the leg and is
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rapidly losing blood. Officers quickly apply a tourniquet to control
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the bleeding and stabilize him until he can be transported
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to the hospital. But before they can even catch their breath,
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another serious problem appears. Other residents and civilians continue to
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pass close to the active firing zone, oblivious to the
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lethal danger surrounding them. That's when Officer Decent spots something alarming.
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Someone riding on a bicycle is suddenly seen riding straight
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through the active firing zone, heading directly towards officers.
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Speaker 3: Flight right now, you can stop that guy on.
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Speaker 4: Here, get it, get your hands get over here, get
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over here, Get down on the ground, Get down on
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the ground.
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Speaker 2: Now, I am what's the fuck?
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Speaker 7: We got people shooting out of that building.
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Speaker 9: Guy.
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Speaker 3: Shit, we don't know if it's you yet.
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Speaker 2: No, no, we don't know that yet.
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Speaker 3: Oh we got a prone out right here.
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Speaker 2: We're checking him.
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Speaker 3: I didn't hear no gun.
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Speaker 2: Are you kidding?
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Speaker 5: You?
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Speaker 2: Guys stood the fuck out of me? How do you
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think we feel?
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Speaker 3: Why didn't you kid shooting each other's over there? Get
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to crawl over what's happening over there?
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Speaker 7: Over here?
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Speaker 3: Okay, crawl crawl over here.
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Speaker 5: Come up by the building here where you're saying, all right,
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put your hands down again. We just had somebody got
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shot out in the street.
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Speaker 7: From here you go any hang on?
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Speaker 9: You can you take the bank out of seat please so.
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Speaker 7: You can look it down.
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Speaker 5: You can search me if you take the bag off. O.
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This bag just has a hammer and some tool. Okay,
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it's not him, obviously out stay down. Okay, what's obviously
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not himmer? Okay, why don't you come up.
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Speaker 2: Here, sir? Come up by the building where you're saying. Okay,
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now you hear what we're dealing with.
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Speaker 1: Thankfully, officers quickly determined the biker was not a threat,
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managing to pull him to safety before he was harmed.
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Immediately afterwards, police units quickly finished establishing roadblocks around the complex,
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finally preventing further civilians from entering the danger zone. With
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no targets in sight, the shooting abruptly stops. This brief
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pause gives officers an opportunity to reassess their positions as
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they wait for swant support, unaware of the violent escalation
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just hours away.
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Speaker 2: Prior. Do you think it's gone quiet because he just
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doesn't have anything to shoot at. Yeah, keep them at
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a staging point, Keith. We have an armored vehicle on
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seeing here. We'll be sending all I believe.
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Speaker 1: At approximately four am, SWAT armored vehicles finally arrive on
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the opposite side of the building, marking a critical turning
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point in the operation. For the first time, officers have
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the tactical support they need to close in and bring
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the shooters into custody.
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Speaker 3: And we've got more individual here now, team getting.
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Speaker 7: Them out of here.
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Speaker 2: Do you want to jump me with him? Yeah, all right,
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we'll come. Thanks for coming.
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Speaker 1: I know our team's setting up too, so we'll be
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over here soon.
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Speaker 2: Not what we expected.
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Speaker 1: With SWAT teams now on scene, a sniper unit quickly
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moves into position on the east side of the Shady
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Oaks complex, giving officers critical visibility. At the same time,
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entry teams on the west side prepare for their next move.
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It's finally time to move inside the building.
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Speaker 2: You're recovery, Get up there, goal one at a time.
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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, I'm gonna move.
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Speaker 7: Right yep, three oh six were by the dumpster?
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Speaker 2: Where you were? What's your twenty year?
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Speaker 1: After carefully evacuating ground floor residents over the next two hours,
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SWAT teams successfully secure the lower levels, ensuring the shooters
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have no path to escape. As the sun rises over
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Shady Oaks. Police gain a critical advantage daylight with improved visibility,
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They deployed drones overhead, giving officers a clear, real time
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view of the complex. As the drone hovers above Shady Oaks,
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officers notice movement on the third floor, someone barricaded near
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a window in Apartment three oh three. Sniper's position across
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the street, quickly adjusts their aim towards the apartment, while
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officers remain on high alert, knowing other suspects could be
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hidden throughout the building. Over the next hour, tensions escalate
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as the barricaded shooter fires and destroys a police drone
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monitoring his position. At a round eight am, negotiation team's
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attempt to make contact, urging the shooter to surrender peacefully,
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but despite repeated attempts, he refuses to respond. By ten am,
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after over eight hours of standoff and with peaceful options,
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exhausted and armored SWAT vehicle pulls up directly into the
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shooter's line of sight, preparing to launch enough tear gas
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canisters to saturate the entire apartment. Moments after the gas
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enters the apartment, the barricaded suspect moves to the window
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for the first time, officers see his face. It's a
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young man barely out of his teens, armed and ready
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to fire back. Following the shooter's reaction, a single, carefully
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aimed sniper shot shatters the apartment window, sending shards of
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glass directly into the shooter's forehead. Moments later, he appears
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from the window holding a towel to his face, clearly
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weakened and disoriented. A SWANT team immediately rushes to apartment
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three oh three to apprehend the shooter. Inside, they find
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him wounded but cooperative, quickly placing him into custody and
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escorting him out of the.
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Speaker 3: Building or they'll check them.
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Speaker 2: Change and left hand as baggy pants. Check down by
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his feet, nothing on his feet.
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Speaker 9: I am not.
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Speaker 2: Hands pulled up? How my arm?
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Speaker 7: You want to switch up?
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Speaker 8: You can give me an iou.
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Speaker 1: The shooter is soon identified as Devin Matthew Wayland. Inside
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his apartment, officers recover multiple firearms, including the rifle used
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throughout the standoff. Officers continue to search the complex and
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after a thorough sweep, they find no other threats, confirming
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Devon was the only shooter. As he has transported to
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the hospital for medical treatment. Detectives begin rehashing details of
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the shooting. That's when they make a troubling discovery. The
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initial nine to one one call reporting fireworks had been
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placed by Devon himself.
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Speaker 2: Critish Warner heard a gun shuttering, firecracker was born.
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Speaker 1: Investigators quickly realized the call was a deliberate attempt to
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lure responding officers directly into his line of fire. Given
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the calculated nature of the ambush, they suspect that Devon
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may not have acted alone, that he could be linked
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to a larger threat, perhaps associated with an extremist group
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or a broader violent plan. With this in mind, detectives
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bring Devin straight into an interrogation room as soon as
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he is medically cleared, urgently seeking answers about his true
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motives and whether any additional attexts were placed.
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Speaker 2: Hey Devin, Hell, all right, I've been better. Yeah, it
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looks like it. Okay, though, can you is that okay?
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We visit?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, Now, let's back up to the day before
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the incident and just talk to us about your day
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and kind of what's going on. Everything seemed all write,
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Everything seemed fine, okay. These ex friends of mine, they
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want to hang out with me, and it was gonna
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be his girlfriend's birthday, the twenty first birthday, so they
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wanted to party and drink.
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Speaker 2: Well, I am.
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Speaker 6: I do like the little cold still cushion. I like
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to see people's use and ask them why they think
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about second, respect them deeper and like the stuff. Yep, okay,
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But it just turns out that they're next speakers. And
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I think one guy was tweaking there. This guy's name
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was Seth something, and they're all like trying to They're saying,
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I'm getting in their face and screaming at the mine
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personally death from working in machinery. I said, I'm sorry,
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I'll get out there with my hands and knees. I'll
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show you I'm not being violent. And this woman was saying,
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get out my man's face, and I'm like, I'm not
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in your man's face. I'm just saying, this is how
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I view about the suit wish because how could I respect?
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You'd been nothing but nice to me, so Shias until
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this point on, and Judd said go his face.
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Speaker 2: I said, on your face.
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Speaker 5: He pushed me.
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Speaker 6: He was trying to fight me, so I fought him
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and Jordan got on me and he tried fighting me,
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and he claimed he was trying to make sure there
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would be no fight to happen. But that was the
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last straw, and for some reason, I felt like because
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no one would believe my story, I had my firearms
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out ready to use, just in case anything did happen,
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which I didn't want it to. But I had an
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accident to discharge of my Mozima got rifle and I
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had one bullet for it.
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure it was a mental set, but I.
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Speaker 6: Haven't been employed in a year, and my grandfather died
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three years ago. I just wanted it, and I didn't
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want to ever shoot a cop. That's why I surrendered.
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Were you aiming at anything?
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Speaker 1: Just the cars?
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Speaker 6: Just the cars, trying to get the cops to come
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so that i'd shoot me. I didn't want to shoot
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the cops. Don want to shoot aybody else to want
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to the cars so that they would shoot me.
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Speaker 2: But I couldn't. I couldn't.
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Speaker 6: I couldn't myself. It's against my own views. I would
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have to have somebody. Also, if you write a place,
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so that's where that that idea. I know it sounds
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really fucked up. I wanted to live. I tried telling
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myself this and that, but under last night's situation or
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an ideal, it just got too much to me too fast.
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So do you remember what exactly you told the dispatcher.
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Speaker 2: When you called it.
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Speaker 8: All right?
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Speaker 6: It sounds like there was a gun shot or fireworks
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or some type of discharge, like some type of fire shot.
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If you said the word fireworks, would you mean fireworks.
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Speaker 2: For my gun? Or actually, I don't know.
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Speaker 6: Did I say fireworks or you get I don't know
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if I don't know if.
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Speaker 2: I did okay.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps the most striking thing about Devin's confession is his
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description of feeling trapped between a desperate wish to die
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and an inability to harm himself, a psychological state commonly
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known as I'd buy cop, where someone intentionally provokes law
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enforcement into using deadly force to end their own life.
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Following the interrogation and detectives to determined that Devon Wayland
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acted alone, ruling out connections to any larger extremist groups,
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Devon admitted to intentionally provoking police to respond with deadly force,
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driven by anger and humiliation after an earlier confrontation at
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a party. Thankfully, the three victims wounded in the shooting,
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including Officer Cody need Him, would ultimately recover from their
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physical injuries.