walking down the street. he opens fire, and then goes on the move and continues the random shooting. so he is taking people with him, but the goal is suicide-by-cop, and i will shoot enough rounds and at enough people with the intent to hit them to draw the police in to be justified in the shooting when i engage them. he knows how this is going to end. when he woke up this morning, this is all in the plan, to shoot the other people to get himself shot. as awful as it is, i wonder why people in that condition who want to die by suicide don t just take themselves out, but they take other people out with them. looking at the modern psychology of the shooter studies, and this is not in the movies when i was a kid, and gary cooper at high noon and staring down the bullies. this is moving on to the series of the american youth, and a
officers fired a total of 94 round and 6.7 seconds. walker s autopsy revealed he was hit or grazed 46 times. at the time he was shot. walker was unarmed. according to police. his gun was found in his car. later walkers fiance had died in a car accident just one month prior. the attorney general s office says there is no direct evidence. this was a suicide by cop. he was going through a very tough time. and he was hurting. and that night that he encountered the police. he was not acting himself. by all accounts. this was a good man. a good person, um, with no prior criminal record police department says they are now conducting an internal review of the shooting. the aid officers involved have not been identified and remain on the force. one of the officers was
family was aware the shooter struggled with depression. however they said they didn t see any signs or even know he was capable of such violence. i want to read part of their statement to you, which says, in part no words can express our sorrow, anguish and horror at the unthinkable harm. our son connor inflicted on innocent people. sarah i don t know about you, adrian, but it always leaves me with questions as to why someone who says they want to kill themselves ends up killing so many people and then doing a suicide by cop. alright, let s go over to kate. this is just hard to watch. and i know you and shimon are going to go through this for us, and you talk through some of the key moments that have been revealed in the body camera video, especially octopuses here just to walk through what sticks out. you in some of these key minutes? i mean, it was five minutes, all told for them to neutralize the suspect. once they got the dispatch and got on
past. we can lot of mass school shootings. this is a workplace violence with this kind of be sort of a typical response when someone is going to perpetrate workplace violence. it is one of different types of responses that individuals can have. sometimes the works place violence is in regard to a domestic situation. sometimes the offender wants the purpose of the activities to engage the officers in order. to get killed by cops. suicide by cop, exactly . uh and in this situation, he waited a minute and a half. he did not go to kill other people . he simply waited in the lobby for the police to arrive and engaged in gunfire with them that they ve just noticed that he sat down and they figure that out because he was live streaming this on instagram, which is something we are seeing in some of these mass shootings , so that really gives you a look right into his mindset that