some type of surveillance prior to the actual shooting itself and that this just wasn t a spur of the moment incident. this is something that had been planned. and as you know, this festival lasted three days. so, it could have been that the individual or individuals involved had a look at it the last two days, made a decision to do it, and then carried it out this afternoon/this evening. you re saying day one, day two, they could have been casing the joint. they could have been looking at the perimeter to find the weakest point. absolutely. absolutely. and it sounds like they did that. again, with the chief of police suggesting they walked down through the creek to get to the fence, you know, there s a couple of reasons. number one, that may have been the furthest spot away. they may have identified that as an area where there wasn t any active security, where people wouldn t necessarily see them cut through the the fence. but all of that, again, the pre-planning where someone had
second person that was at least witnessed, that there was a second person who may have helped the shooter cut through a fence and get into the festival area itself. what we don t know or what we ve not heard confirmed is that a second individual actually took part in the shooting, much less do we have confirmation that there was a second person. so, that s vague just like the number of injured right now is vague. hopefully by tomorrow that number as far as was there a second individual involved or not, as you and i talked earlier, they ought to be able to come up with some type of accomplice for the shooter, somebody who was close enough to him who might have participated in this. that would be their presidentsu. that would be who they re trying to find tonight. as you and i were talking about not too long ago here, clint, when we were looking at that video of the body of water,
press conference, he spoke in plural, suggesting two individuals had come down through a creek or body of water that indicates they parked their vehicle at the other end of this body of water. they walked in, it may have been an area they wouldn t have been scene. the chief suggested they cut a hole through the fence, and at least the shooter, we know, came through. there is a potential, a second individual. we don t know, was there two people, number two, what the role was of the second person. was this individual a shooter? simply a helper? was there a second person? that is the elusive ghost the police are working hard to identify. however it happened, the the individual comes through the hole in the fence, and the
and you indicated that typically in the cases you ve been involved in you would sometimes consider that they would not prefer to have to deal with natural barriers, this lake or river potentially being one of those. yet what we re hearing from the chief of police, that s exactly where this suspect went. yeah. richard, sometimes when there is a fugitive on the run, he or she won t necessarily penetrate a natural barrier. they ll stay within an area they know. but in this particular case, it sounds like they walked in on this creek. in essence, they parked he or they parked a vehicle somewhere it sounds like and then they used the creek to get down to the fence area and then cut a hole in the fencing and came through. all of this, though richard, suggests pre-planning. someone had to know where that creek was. someone had to know enough to bring cutting tools to cut through the fence. so, that would suggest they did
tool to cut through the fence to be able to gain access through the secure fence line. and that s how they got into the festival area itself. we have one suspect, you kn we t is down. we have some witnesses reporting that there may have been a second suspect. but we don t know if that suspect was engaged in any shooting or whether they may have been in some sort of support role for the person that we have accounted for. we have at least 15 people injured. we have four fatalities that we know of including the suspect. the officers that engaged the suspect, obviously we have a protocol that we need to deal with for that. so, santa clara county has a protocol for dealing with