scene are taken care of at that moment. we are going to take one more question and then we will anticipate another briefing later this afternoon. one more question, please? you just mentioned the two officers who i m assuming knowing this complex ran from the building. is that accurate? yes, sir. can you talk about the proximity to the police department, when you said yesterday, around 400 workers in that building. how did the proximity of the police department to the building 2 help? well, it s very close. it s within a couple up, maybe 100, 150 yards of each building. so those two supervisors, and these are detective supervisors, they were out of the building instantaneously. they had the proper identification equipment on them, so that when other officers respond to the scene, they know that they are investigators with our department. and remember, once they made entry into building 2, they had to immediately determine who was
chief, can you tell us his employment status or at least how the shoot-out came to be on the premises. he was still employed. he had a security pass, like all employees had, and he was authorized to enter the building. and please keep in mind, we live in a free, open society. citizens enter that building at all times. citizens enter all government buildings, except for schools and courts, where there s a different level of security. do you have any indication that he had a specific person that he wanted to target or person or persons? i do not have that at this time. again, as we go further into the investigation, we may have additional information on that. whether it s an individual or not, we do have a large-scale number of victims that were killed my the suspect. chief, can you comment on all
take us through your thoughts when you first heard this audio as we are now hearing it tonight. i m shocked at the audio because the audio 100 percent contradicts what former deputy peterson said, that he did not know where the shots were coming from in the beginning and that his lawyer even sent him a press rethought the shots were outside in his own words is he describing where the gunshots are coming from inside the 1200 building. he is calling that out multiple times. for the life of me i cannot understand why he would tell the responding deputies to stay at least 500 feet away. his commands at that point should have been we need to get units in here a sap and form a team to get inside this building to stop the loss of life. sandra: had he responded differently that day, we would be looking at a completely different outcome. do you think? do you think? i think if he acted differently and went into the building and tried to confront the shooter at the
also time stamped surveillance video that has not yet been released showing the gunman in the stairwell of that building. that video has taken 25 seconds before deputy peterson issued this warning to his fellow deputies. listen. do not approach the 1200 or 1300 buildings. stay at least 500 feet away at this point. stay away from 12 and 1300 building. stay away from 12 and hundred which may explain why deputies didn t immediately rush into the cool like the sheriff says they should have. the sheriff of the union says is he baffled why peterson would tell responding officers to stay back. we should also note the new time line says nikolas cruz began firing 15 seconds after entering building 1. after appearing before a judge. cruz is now facing 1 counts of first degree murder and 17 counts of attempted murder. he could be facing the death
problem. having said that, there are multiple systems out there. the alert system is one of them. a number of systems, some of them respond to the problem by yourself. some teach respond as a team and in tandem. let me be clear on this. none of these systems used now in this post columbine era teach set up perimeter and stay 500 feet away from the building. none. none that i know of. you know, email me if you see otherwise. i have never heard of anything like this. it is a puzzling, puzzling piece of audio that 911 call. sandra: now, knowing what we know because of these phone calls, dan, you wonder if as a country we can learn from this, how to prevent this type of flawed response should this, god forbid, happen again. yeah, law enforcement, firearm, our military personnel, these are unique jobs. i was in it for 15-plus years of my life at the federal and local level with the nypd and secret service.