We know about the shooting at an elementary school in Nashville

The lawsuit against Daniel Defense Against a School Shooter who allegedly sold a child to shoot guns and ammunition in Uvalde, Texas

The parents brought the lawsuit, filed Wednesday, on behalf of themselves and their children, who include: Corina Camacho’s 10-year-old son, identified as “G.M.” in the court document, who was wounded in the attack; Tanisha Rodriguez’s 9-year-old daughter, “G.R.,” who ran from the playground to a classroom to hide when she heard gunshots; Selena Sanchez’s son, “D.J.,” who was headed to the nurse’s office when he saw the gunman shooting toward classrooms. The 9-year-old hid with other students in a classroom.

The students and two teachers were killed on May 24th when a young man shot into classrooms at Robb Elementary.

“Daniel Defense chooses not to do any studies evaluating the effects of their marketing strategies on the health and well-being of Americans and chose not to look at the cost to families and communities like Uvalde, Texas,” said the complaint.

The complaint notes that the Georgia-based company made a statement days before the shooting about how to train up a child to shoot guns and not leave them when they are old.

The claim claims that Firequest International, Inc., which manufactures accessorytrigger systems, similar to illegal bump stocks, sells its products to untrained civilians and young adults in Uvalde. Automatic weapons and semi-automatic rifles can be fired more quickly with these types of devices.

According to a legal document, the Uvalde school shooter’s background check was clean, and Oasis Outback sold him the guns and ammunition knowing he was suspicious and likely dangerous. The store owner and his staff didn’t block purchases or inform law enforcement, even though they had suspicions.

Nashville police say that the shooter had bought seven firearms, three of which were used in the attack, and was in treatment for an emotional disorder.

The Uvalde Police Chief and Principal, Pete Arredondo, have not commented on the litigation pending at the Los Alamos Elementary School

The police chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, Pete Arredondo, and the former principal of the school, were accused in a lawsuit of creating a dangerous environment for the people who sued them. Gutierrez’s attorney told CNN his client will not be commenting on the pending litigation.

The police received the report at 10:00 a.m. and heard gunshots as they arrived at the school, a police spokesman said. In the second floorlobby type area, two of the officers shot and killed the suspect who was shooting at them. The school does not have a police officer guarding it, he said.

The suit states that defects in the products of two other companies were reasons why there was a lack of response to the shooting. Motorola Solutions, Inc.’s radio communications devices, which were used by some first responders, “were defective and unreasonably dangerous because they did not contain adequate warnings or instructions concerning failure during normal use,” said the claim.

Lawyers say that Schneider Electric failed to lock as it was designed after being shut.

“What happened in Uvalde was an unspeakable tragedy that we condemn in the strongest terms,” Schneider Electric spokesperson Venancio Figueroa III told CNN. “We are reviewing this recent filing but cannot comment further on pending litigation.”

Daniel Defense, Oasis Outback, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, FireQuest International, Motorola Solutions, Inc., Pargas and Arredondo have all not responded to CNN request for comment.

An 18-year-old gunman killed two students and wounded several at a St. Louis high school in the early 2000s, according to the Associated Press

Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly included an extra plaintiff’s name. The person is not involved in the complaint and their name has been removed.

When a 19-year-old gunman opened fire at a St. Louis school Monday, killing two and injuring several others, he was armed with a long gun and nearly a dozen high-capacity magazines – enough ammunition for a “much worse” situation, police said.

Authorities credited locked doors and a quick police response – including by off-duty officers – for preventing more killings at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School.

“This could have been much worse,” police Commissioner Michael Sack said. “The individual had almost a dozen 30-round … high-capacity magazines on him. There is a lot of victims there.

Alexandria was looking forward to her Sweet 16, her father told CNN affiliate KSDK. Kuczka was looking forward to retiring in a few years, her daughter told CNN.

The gunman died at a hospital after a gun battle with officers, Sack said. The man was a graduate of the school last year.

A Michigan prosecutor who had just heard the guilty plea of a teen who killed four students last fall said she was not shocked to hear of another school shooting. “The fact that there is another school shooting does not surprise me – which is horrific,” Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said.

We need to inform the public on how to prevent gun violence. It is preventable, and we should never allow it to be something that we have to live with.

Alexandria Bell, 21, and the Allen-Brown family from Central VPA High School: The effect of Jean Kuczka on the young girls of KSDK

Alexandria had an outgoing personality, loved to dance and was a member of her high school’s junior varsity dance team, her father Andre Bell told KSDK.

Her friend Dejah Robinson said the two were planning to celebrate Halloween together this weekend. “She was always funny and always kept the smile on her face and kept everybody laughing,” Robinson said, fighting back tears.

Alexis Allen-Brown was among the alumni who fondly remembered Jean Kuczka’s impact on her students. “She was kindhearted. She was nice. She made you laugh no matter what, Allen-Brown said.

In her biography on the school’s website, Kuczka said she had been at Central VPA High School since 2008. She believes that every child should be given a chance to learn.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/25/us/st-louis-school-shooting-tuesday/index.html

Multiple 911 Calls from the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, During a Mass Shooting: A New Perspective on Law Enforcement’s Failure to Respond

A few of the other teens had gunshot or grazed wounds. One had an injured ankle. They were not in a bad place according to the police commissioner.

There was no mystery when he entered, the commissioner said. “He had it out and entered in an aggressive, violent manner.”

Adrianne Bolden, a freshman at the school, told KSDK that students thought it was a drill until they heard the sirens and saw their teachers were scared.

When the shooting started, scared parents rushed to the school and frightened students and teachers were forced to take cover as police confronted the attacker, adding to the long list of other US schools marked by gun violence.

David Williams told CNN that everyone went intodrill mode, turning off lights, locking doors and hunkering in corners so they weren’t seen.

Asked about the eight minutes between officers’ arrival and making contact with the gunman, Sack said “eight minutes isn’t very long,” and that officers had to maneuver through a big school with few entrances and crowds of students and staff who were evacuating.

As phone calls came in from people hiding in different locations, officers fanned out and searched for students and staff to escort them out of the building.

Sack said that the team from the training exercise was able to quickly get to the school and do a secondary sweep of the building.

Chilling audio recordings have surfaced from children and teachers trapped inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, during the mass shooting there in May. The recordings show a new level of detail in law enforcement’s failure to respond quickly, and it also shows a picture of a rapidly unfolding scene with an active shooter. CNN, The Texas Tribune, and ProPublica reported on the story.

Khloie was a student. She was 10 years old. It would be 40 minutes from the time of her first call until law enforcement forced their way into her classroom.

According to reports, the newly surfaced recordings include more than 20 calls, including those between officers and dispatchers, and reveal a chaotic response without clear communication. The Dispatcher gave misinformation to personnel.

Since the shooting, law enforcement’s response has been widely criticized, with agencies failing to take responsibility and blaming each other. Several top officials have been fired.

According to reports, a medic says they’re taking too long. That was minutes before Khloie Torres started her third 911 call. She survived the shooting.

Despite hearing gunshots ringing out, officers said they were unaware of what was happening behind the closed doors because they did not hear screams or cries.

Officers still did not breach the classroom after a responding officer’s wife, a fourth-grade teacher at the school, was shot, and called her husband saying she was “dying.”

He acknowledged there were victims at 12:20 p.m., saying on footage obtained through another officer’s body cam that “We have victims in there. I don’t want to have more. You know what I’m saying?”

Uvalde County Sheriff Ruben Nolasco rushed toward Robb Elementary School when calls came in that a man was firing his gun after crashing his pickup truck on May 24.

He was one of the 376 officers who went to help children and teachers. But, unlike the vast majority, he had the rank to easily take charge, he had vital information about the shooter and a call about victims in a classroom, and others looked to him as a commander on the scene with up-to-date information.

But despite more than 30 years of law enforcement experience for the city and county, despite knowing not only his own staff but many in the command structures in the multiple agencies that arrived at Robb, Nolasco chose to stay at a different crime scene, already under control, as a far greater disaster initially unfolded. He did not take charge when he arrived and did not make sure that screams for help from girls trapped with injuries in the classroom were acted on.

In the days after the massacre that killed 19 children and two teachers, Nolasco was comforted by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and his political allies.

An elected leader answering only to voters, he has not been subject to the same scrutiny as the school police chief – now fired; the acting city police chief – now retired before he could be fired; and members of the Texas Rangers and the Texas Department of Public Safety, who have all faced official scrutiny, leading to suspensions and at least one termination.

Do you know the gunman killed a student at a school? An interview of Nolasco on a 911 call from the Los Alamos shooting victim

Nolasco was also emotional and belligerent in his interview nine days after the horrific attack. Some of the routine questions weresulting, he said, but he was confident he didn’t do anything wrong. I don’t have anything to hide.

At 12:08 p.m. – 30 minutes after Nolasco was given the shooter’s name – a sheriff’s deputy in the hallway with Arredondo shared that he had responded to Diaz Street “where (the suspect) shot his first person in the face.” A man said, “No one knows who this guy is.” It is not until 12:37 p.m. that anyone in the hallway outside the classroom is heard using the gunman’s name to address him.

Who has done this to you? Nolasco can be heard asking on a previously undisclosed recording from a body camera worn by one of his deputies and obtained by CNN. The video was uploaded to the police systems within hours of the shooting, but wasn’t made public because the Texas Rangers were investigating the response.

At this time, the school police chief was trying to negotiate with the shooter but still did not have his name. A CNN analysis of footage from inside the school has found no indication that Arredondo was told the gunman had family trouble, even when his identity was known.

The shooter, who the police identified as Audrey E. Hale, had entered the building by firing through a side door, armed with two assault-style weapons and a handgun, according to John Drake, the chief of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, and went to the second floor, firing shots before being killed by the police. Chief Drake said that the assailant was “at one point a student” at the school.

Uvalde sheriff Ruben Nolasco: “On the way to make sure that DPS had operational control over the moment of an elementary shooter’s attack”, ex-Cfc Cmr Pargas

Acting Uvalde police chief Lt. Mariano Pargas, who like Nolasco could have taken command, chose to resign after CNN reported that he knew children needed rescuing and did not organize help.

CNN has exposed the actions of a Texas Ranger, a police captain and a state police sergeant as they were put under review. The Uvalde school district fired an officer who quit the state force while under investigation for waiting outside the school during the attack even though she admitted it would have been different if her son had been inside.

Faced with repeated questions about his response in a recent interview with CNN, Nolasco defended himself and insisted that he wasn’t at the school “for the first 35 minutes, at least the first 35 minutes” of the 77-minute standoff.

He told the investigator that he stayed to arrange the ambulance and persuaded a neighbour to leave the street while the shooter was on the run.

Even if there was effective communication that active shooter protocol should be followed, it was not effective because the threat should be mitigated as quickly as possible, either at the scene or among the many teams headed there. Betancourt told investigators he still believed they were dealing with a “barricaded subject” when he arrived, well into the second hour of the response.

Betancourt said he did not know school police chief Arredondo was there until later. He didn’t mention the acting police chief. DPS also had many of its own officers on scene, including now-fired Sgt. Juan Maldonado who was one of the first to arrive. The department has not taken care of what its own chief characterized as an “abject failure”. DPS director Col. Steven McCraw told CNN he would resign if his department was culpable but told bereaved families in October he did not think DPS as an institution had failed.

He explained in a second interview with an investigator, that he had been told by the sheriff that he had operational control over the scene at the time of the incident.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/07/us/uvalde-sheriff-ruben-nolasco-robb-elementary-massacre/index.html

Nolasco and CNN: “It’s been very painful for me as well as my deputies,'” he told CNN

Nolasco also disputed that to CNN. It’s his opinion, that’s on him. He’s a captain. And if that’s what he assumed, then it was an assumption. It was not fact-based.

CNN reported last month that Pargas had knowledge that children and teachers were trapped in classrooms with the shooter when he responded to the call.

Nolasco complained to an investigator and CNN about how poorly the radios worked in and around the school, and that the noise from helicopters was detrimental too.

The sheriff was in the room when the order was made to stop the entry to the classroom.

When hostages are present, he said, you don’t want to break down the doors as law enforcement want to stop the killing.

After an hour of questions, near the end of the interview, he talked about the suffering of his deputies and said, “It’s been very traumatic for me as well.”

Novah Jones was in a different classroom when an announcement said, “lockdown, I repeat lockdown,'” I hid under my desk because I was afraid, and I didn’t know what to do.

The teacher wounded in Friday’s shooting, whose injury was initially described as life-threatening, was listed in stable condition by Saturday, according to the Newport News Police Department.

The Newport News public school district and the FBI didn’t name the teacher, but her alma mater, James Madison University, did.

The Shooting Involved a 6-year-old Student at a Newport News Public School: Police, Judges, and the Investigative Team

Police Chief Steve Drew said in a news conference that the 6-year-old was taken into custody after being shot.

The teacher and the student had a fight, and the student had a gun. A single round was fired and no other students were involved, he added.

The children were taken to the buses after the shooting to be with their families. There were community members embracing when video showed children holding hands as they walked out of the school.

Novah had trouble sleeping that night, worried that he was going to get the gun and come to her house.

Many of the highest-profile school shootings in recent years have taken place at public schools, in part because there are far more public schools in the United States: nearly 100,000, compared with about 30,000 private schools.

The school will not be open on Monday and Tuesday to give the community time to heal.

Two days before the shooting, the student allegedly “slammed” and broke Zwerner’s cell phone and cursed at guidance counselors, which led to him being suspended for one day, according to a legal notice sent to the Newport News School Board by Zwerner’s attorney that also informed officials about the teacher’s plan to sue school administrators.

Authorities are “working diligently to get an answer to the question we are all asking – how did this happen? We are also working to ensure the child receives the supports and services he needs as we continue to process what took place,” Jones said.

A Big Ail Teacher Shooting Newport News Virginiania (Nbc): I’m sorry for the absence of my mom, my baby, and my friend

During an interview that aired Tuesday, Zwerner said that she remembered the look on his face when he pointed the gun at her. “I remember the gun going off.”

The bullet “went through my left hand and ruptured the middle bone as well as the index finger and the thumb,” Zwerner told NBC, before striking her in the chest.

She said she was terrified. My initial reaction was to tell my children to leave, you know what I mean? ‘This is not a safe classroom anymore.’ … I just wanted to get my babies out of there.”

A hospital spokesperson confirmed that Zwerner was released last month. The teacher has undergone four surgeries since the shooting, NBC reported, most recently on her hand, which Zwerner still cannot fully use.

The Commonwealth’s Attorney for the Newport News area told WTKR that the boy who shot Zwerner wouldn’t be charged.

The boy has an “acute disability” and was under a care plan that required a parent to attend school with him, though he was unaccompanied on the day of the shooting, his family has said in a statement. We will be sorry for our absence from this day for the rest of our lives.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/us/abigail-zwerner-teacher-shooting-newport-news-virginia-nbc/index.html

Observations of the Shooting of a High School Principal with a Gun and Threats: A Call to the Prosecutor

“Some days are not-so-good days where I can’t get up out of bed,” she told NBC. “Some days are better than others where I’m able to get out of bed and make it to my appointments. But from going through what I’ve gone through, I try to stay positive.”

She said that the support her family and complete strangers gave to her was deeply appreciated and truly inspiring.

Zwerner has an attorney that claims that Zwerner was warned by teachers and employees that a student was threatening people and had a gun. Toscano alleged the administrators “failed to act” despite having “knowledge of imminent danger.”

The fallout from the incident was swift, drawing harsh criticism from parents and leading the school board to vote to oust Superintendent George Parker III. Richneck Elementary’s assistant principal, Ebony Parker, resigned two weeks after the shooting and the principal, Briana Foster Newton, was reassigned to another school, though the district did not say where.

“The fact of the matter is that those who were aware that the student may have had a gun on the premises that day did not report this to Mrs. Newton at all,” Branch said.

I’m following closely the Newport News prosecutor to see if they charge anyone in this case.

“My job is to hold those accountable that I can hold accountable and that’s what I will do,” he said. Abby’s going to have to deal with this her entire life, both physically, emotionally.”

“I’m not sure when the shock will ever go away, because of just how surreal it was and you know, the vivid memories that I have of that day,” she said. I think about it all the time. Occasionally I have nightmares.

The Nashville shooting of a Christian elementary school: A 28-year-old shooter, three children, and three adults, and their mother, Bethlehem, praised by police

NASHVILLE — A 28-year-old from Nashville fatally shot three children and three adults on Monday at a private Christian elementary school, officials said, leaving behind writings and detailed maps of the school and its security protocols.

The shooter, identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale, was shot and killed by police during the Monday attack, leaving behind “drawn out” maps of the Covenant School detailing “how this was all going to take place,” Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake said.

Hale, who attended the Christian school years ago, left writings that pertain to the shooting and had scouted a second possible attack location in Nashville, “but because of a threat assessment by the suspect – there’s too much security – they decided not to,” police chief said.

“I was literally moved to tears to see this and the kids as they were being ushered out of the building,” the police chief said during a Monday news conference.

The police in Nashville named the victims as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Spuggs and William Kinney, all 9,Cynthia Peak, a substitute teacher,Mike Hill, a custodian, andKatherine Koonce, 60. Dr. Koonce was the head of school, according to the school website. According to a biography online by the church in Dallas, Hallie was the daughter of the pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church. The elementary school is connected to Covenant Presbyterian.

A mother who lost her son in the Waffle House shooting said she was brought back to that moment as her son’s school was put on lock down.

The shooter was “someone that had multiple rounds of ammunition, prepared for confrontation with law enforcement, prepared to do more harm than was actually done,” the police chief said in a news conference.

Hale obtained at least two of the weapons that were found, and police think he did so legally, according to Drake. Police say that a sawed-off shotgun, a second shotgun and other evidence were seized when a search warrant was executed at Hale’s home.

They went upstairs and confronted the shooter, who “had been firing through a window at arriving police cars,” police said in the news release. A police officer opened fire at the shooter, killing him at 10:27 a.m.

The Day That Never Comes: Mike Hill, the Custodian and the Superintendent of the Covenant School, Nashville, N.C. Pulley

I was hoping that the day wouldn’t come in the city. Drake said during a news conference that they will never wait to go in and stop the threat, especially when it deals with our children.

“This school prepared for this with active shooter training for a reason. We don’t like to think that this is ever going to happen to us. In this day and time, it’s the reality of where we are, and that’s why we should be prepared, according to Nashville Metropolitan Councilman Russ Pulley.

The school’s website says that Koonce received her master’s degree from Georgia State University, as well as attending schools in Nashville, and she is the head of the school.

Mike Hill was identified in the staff section of the Covenant Presbyterian Church’s website, which is now offline. He was listed as facilities/kitchen staff. A friend of Mike Hill confirmed the picture to CNN. Hill was a custodian at the school.

The school said in a statement that their community is sad. “We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church.”

The Covenant School was founded in 2001 as a ministry of the Covenant Presbyterian Church and teaches preschool through 6th grade.

The Nashville Shooting as a Family’s Worst Dream: A Statewide Investigation of Violence in Children’s Ministries and Churches

Nashville Mayor John Cooper is overwhelmed at the thought of the future that has been lost by these families.

A recent study showed that homicide is the leading cause of death in children in the United States and the overall rate has increased for nearly a decade.

President Biden called the Nashville shooting a family’s worst nightmare on Monday and urged Congress to pass gun-control legislation. He has repeatedly called for such a ban on assault weapons, including during his recent visit to Monterey Park, Calif., where a gunman killed 11 people at a dance studio in January.

In the latest episode of gun violence that has devastated American families and communities, the assailant opened fire just after 10 a.m. inside the Covenant School, in the affluent Green Hills neighborhood, where children in preschool through sixth grade had just begun their final full week of classes before Easter break.

The police released a video on Monday showing the Honda Fit that the shooter used to travel to the school. Two sets of glass doors shatter from bullets as the attacker ducks into a building.

Wearing camouflage pants, a black vest and a backward red baseball cap, the assailant walks through rooms and hallways with a weapon drawn. At one point, the shooter can be seen walking in and out of the church office and down a hallway past the children’s ministry, as the lights of what appear to be a fire alarm flash.

The attacker’s gender identity was unknown in the aftermath of the attack. Drake said the shooter was a woman. Officials used “she” and “her” to refer to the shooter, but, according to a social media post and a LinkedIn profile, the shooter appeared to identify as male in recent months.

Drake confirmed that the shooting was targeted, but said that it was too early to talk about a motive. Chief Drake said the authorities were looking at writings, and had made contact with the shooter’s father.

“We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place,” he said. “There’s right now a theory that we may be able to talk about later but it’s not confirmed, so we’ll put that out as soon as we can.”

The Story of a Small World: A Pastoral Conference for Young Victims and Students at a Correctional Facility in Green Hills, Tennessee

Sirens and the buzz of helicopters pierced the still of a sunny spring morning on Monday, sending residents of the area out of their homes to wait for news about the shooting or assurances that their children at neighboring schools had been released from lockdown. A few women gathered around a livestream of the news conference, gasping and shaking their heads.

“It’s terrifying when you see parents running up the hill,” said Lisa DeBusk, 43, who lives in Green Hills. She said she had considered sending her daughter to Covenant, calling it “the sweetest, most wonderful place.”

The school and its staff were escorted out of the building by the Nashville Fire Department and a total of108 people were transported to the nearby Woodmont Baptist Church.

The kids walked from the buses into the church, dressed in their uniforms, with their hands together as they entered the conference room. Parents were waiting in the building to hear if their children were okay.

The chair of the Metro Nashville School Board said she was inside “the worst waiting room you could imagine” as she waited for a reunification with her parents. Some, she said, were debating how to manage the rest of the day after such a traumatic morning.

Ms. Elrod said that they were figuring out how to talk to their children about this. “What is the next best step? What is the next thing they should do? Do we take them to get ice cream? Take them to the playground? Do we ask what they saw? We don’t need to ask them what they saw. Do we go to school tomorrow? Is there school tomorrow?”

Rachel Dibble, whose children attend a private school in Nashville, had visited with Covenant families who she knew through youth sports.

Ms. Dibble said that it was time to stop school shootings. A politician should sit in a church with families and 250 kids, some of which are white as a sheet, trembling and gray and yellow and green and blue because of the shock.

She said that the students were dressed in cute little uniforms and had some Froot Loops. Their whole lives changed today.”

The Nashville Shooting of Dr. Koonce: A Model for the Exact Detection of a Mass Shooting in 2023

There is no consensus on what a mass shooting is or what it should be. The Gun Violence Archive says that a mass shooting is one in which four people are killed or injured, and that is using police reports, news coverage and other public sources. As of late March, the archive has counted 130 mass shootings in the United States in 2023.

During time at Woodmont Baptist, the owner of a ministry that helps kids, mourned the loss of Dr. Koonce, whom she had known through her work with children. Ms. Trevathan said that Dr. Koonce was a magnetic and strong person with a passion for education and sense of humor.

Emily Cochrane reported from Nashville. Jamie McGee was reporting from Nashville. Reporting was done by Ruth Graham, Emily Schmall, Daniel Victor, Sarah Mervosh, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, and Victoria Kim. Kirsten Noyes , Susan C. Beachy and Kitty Bennett contributed research.

The release of police body camera video on Tuesday from the deadly shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville the day before showed a deliberate and rapid response, one that resulted in officers shooting and killing the assailant within minutes of arriving.

Police killed the suspected attacker within minutes of a first call of an active shooting and six people were dead.

The First Officers at a Nashville High School Shooting: Michael Engelbert and Patrick Collazo, both of whom were there at the time of the shooting

Hale, a 28-year-old from the Nashville area, was a former student of the school. Authorities initially identified Hale as a woman but later clarified that Hale used he/him pronouns.

The footage shows a woman who looks to be a staff member getting up close and personal with the officer as he arrives at the school.

The kids are locked down, but we haven’t heard from two of them in a long time. She also describes the layout of the school and says children are upstairs.

Engelbert and at least two other officers begin searching the school’s first floor as an alarm blares. They look at rooms that appear to be classrooms. Some doors are locked and some rooms are not lit.

The gunshots are louder and the shooter is standing near a window. Engelbert fires four times, and the shooter falls to the ground.

The two veterans, Engelbert and Collazo, have been with the force for a long time. Fourteen minutes elapsed after the first emergency call before the officers shot and killed Hale.

Drake, the police chief, said the two officers were trying to “decompress” and “make sense of all of this” following the shooting. Drake said he had also spoken with Biden, who told him he intended to reach out to the officers too.