cancerme cancer. she showed up after her beloved husband died. today rbg missed oral arguments. the chief didn t say much but a spokesperson said she is recovering from the surgery, from those two nodules that were cancerous that were removed. that is about all that was said. of course what you said about the fact that she had suffered cancer twice before is so important because she often brought up the fact that she never missed a day of oral arguments on the bench. and the fact that she did show up and read that opinion, i was in court that day, the day after her husband died is really
house. on the wall of the house. there s no indication the sconce was broken that way and there was no skin tissue or blood found on the sconce. had shirley skinner really been pushed down by stephen? did you see any injuries consistent with her being knocked to the ground? no, sir. any black eyes or broken bones? no, sir, didn t see anything like that. did she seem like her clothes were out of place? no, sir. didn t look disheveled? no. what s more, stephen had been shot once in the back of the head and he did not have a gun or any other weapon on him. the chief didn t think it was self-defense. so what does it look like to you? looks like somebody decided to shoot him in the back of the head. but who was the somebody who shot him? members of the skinner family obviously knew who did it, but none of them were talking, complicating matters, chief birdsell had never handled a murder before. most of his law enforcement career had been spent on vehicle code vio
i m sure police described it, but one gunman shot through the glass door to our office. we are in a shared office building. we re in one of the suites. and started opening fire on several of the employees inside. once he got entry. what floor are you on? we re on the first floor. and we re relatively close to the main entrance, and as we re we re a suite that s right near the main entrance. there s a list in the front of the building that shows where each office is in the building. you said he shot through the front door. did you actually see him or did you just hear that? i did not see him do it, but i did see the door shatter. essentially he shot through the front door. the glass shattered. i turned around to see it. and then, once i started to realize that something was up, i didn t know what it was, i just assumed the worst, and kind of hid under my desk and didn t see
first, in crisis incidence, inaccurate information is always a problem that we have to sift through. so the chief of clear there. he said we re going to be careful. anything we put out is going to be very accurate. we don t want to put out anything erroneous. we heard reports maybe fingerprints were altered. earlier reports also said potential ieds. he corrected that saying it was smoke cannons. exactly. i think sometimes for civilians they might think a smoke canister is an ied. it causes fire and smoke. what those things are used for from a military perspective, you use them to signal and to obscure. now, using them in this kind of situation, did he use that as a distraction? did he use it as something that was going to cause fear and pan sni ic? he used a shotgun. the chief didn t say whether it was buck shot or bird shot or a
and might think it s an ied. it could be used for that, it causes fire and obviously smoke. what those things are used for from a military perspective, you use them to signal and to obscure. now, using them in this kind of situation, did he use that as a distraction? did he use it as something that was going to cause fear and pan ic? that s quite possible. but the other thing that struck me was the selection of his weapon. it was a shotgun. the chief didn t say whether it was buck shot or bird shot or a slug. because a slug round is a dangerous round. they re less accurate because it s a scatter gun type device. obviously a lot of people have shotguns for home defense. so probably didn t raise any suspicions that he purchased this or had this weapon available. but not the kind of weapon we ve seen generally speaking in these types of incidence. it is very early in this investigation. the motive, which is obviously very important in every situation but in this as well, not yet determi