this news conference what was billed to be a news conference to learn what exactly went down with that white cargo van you are seeing on your screen. that four hours, we saw surrounded by law enforcement as police described what they called, a barricaded subject situation. we didn t get quite as much information as we were hoping for, instead officials took a victory lap for the fact that they were able to reach a resolution to this standoff that appeared to be taking place with that ban. they said, the actual information about what took place, the current status of the suspect in this, place was gonna get about an hour and a half from now back here in monterrey park, california, to give folks who might not be so familiar the geography a sense of what we re talking about. torrance it s a half an hour from your, it s on the other side of los angeles. but like monterey park, it s a heavily asian american community. it s where police found a vehicle that matched the
the decision was made on the scene, i wasn t there, but at the same point in time a decision was made that this was a barricaded subject situation. there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team and the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point. that was the decision and that was the thought process at that particular point in time. there was 19. like i said, there were 19 officers in there. in fact, there was plenty of officers to do whatever needed to be done with one exception, that the incident commander inside believed that they needed more equipment and more officers to do a tactical breach at that point. the chief of police of consolidated federated school district, he was convinced and, again, i want to go back and say he was convinced at the time that there s no more threat to
transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject. mccraw says the on-scene commander was uvalde school district police chief arredondo. the chief of police is the incident commander. it s his school. he s chief of police, okay. where is the police chief, and why isn t he here to take our questions? well, because i m here to address the latest timeline and facts that we know. you re certainly welcome to reach out to him. the decision was made on the scene, i wasn t there, but at the same point in time a decision was made that this was a barricaded subject situation. there was time to retrieve the keyes and wait for a tactical team and the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point. that was the decision and that was the thought process at that particular point in time. there was 19.
transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject. mccraw says the onscene commander was uvalde school district police chief pete arredondo. the chief of police of the consolidated independent school district is the incident commander. it s his school. he is the chief of police, okay. where is the police chief? and why isn t he here to take our questions? well, because i m here to address the latest timeline and the facts that we know. you re certainly welcome to reach out to reach out to them. the decision was made on the scene. i wasn t there. but at the same point and time, the decision was made this is a barricaded subject situation. there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point that was the decision. that was the thought process at that particular point in time. what are you telling parents
report, because that is how he refers to by training. he fits the profile of many. he came from a broken home with literal or no interaction with his father. he struggled in school, both academically and socially. he struggled to fit in and eventually became isolated. he networked through his peers through social media and violent video games. it ultimately had a fixation on school shootings and even developed the nickname, school shooter. we also talk in this report about the failures of law enforcement. there is really two categories to think about when we talk about this. there is an early decision to treat this as an active shooter versus a barricaded subject situation. if you know in the training and