The police response to the Florida high school massacre was delayed because school officials rewound a school surveillance video, making officers think the gunman was still in the building, a new report shows.
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports documents show then-Marjory Stoneman Douglas assistant principal Jeff Morford and security officer Kelvin Greenleaf began viewing a livestream from inside the three-story freshman building minutes after the Feb. 14 shooting stopped.
When they didn't see the gunman who killed 14 students and three staff members, they rewound the video until they found him and began relaying information to Broward Sheriff's Deputy Scot Peterson, who radioed officers who had charged into the building.
At one point, officers were told suspect Nikolas Cruz was coming down the stairs when he had left the building nearly 30 minutes earlier, abandoning his AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.
Documents show then-Marjory Stoneman Douglas assistant principal Jeff Morford and security officer Kelvin Greenleaf (left) began viewing a livestream from inside the three-story freshman building minutes after the Feb. 14 shooting stopped
Then-Marjory Stoneman Douglas assistant principal Jeff Morford is pictured
Surveillance video released: Officers rush into Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018, during a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida
Officers told investigators that delayed their arrival on the third floor, where several students were dead and wounded.
One deputy said one girl had a pulse when they found her, but she was dead by the time they got her outside.
'Had we known the shooter wasn't there, we probably could have flooded that building a lot faster knowing that we're just going to go in there and just start trying to recover victims and wounded people,' Coral Springs police SWAT officer George Schmidt told investigators.
The video delay came to light months ago, but it was not clear then how the misunderstanding occurred.
In this Feb. 14, 2018 file photo, students hold their hands in the air as they are evacuated by police from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland after a shooter opened fire on the campus
According to reports, Morford heard the fire alarm - it was probably activated by smoke from Cruz's gun - and raced outside, where he found Peterson, who yelled, 'Code Red,' the school district's term to lockdown the school because of a shooter.
Peterson told Morford to go to the school's security room and look at the livestream from surveillance cameras inside the freshman building.
Morford found Greenleaf already there, but they couldn't locate the shooter.
They rewound the video until they found Cruz and Morford radioed Peterson what they saw - but he doesn't remember if he told Peterson the information was nearly a half-hour old.
Peterson told officers inside the building that Cruz was coming down the stairwell from the third floor, so they waited to ambush him - not know that he had already fled the school.
Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz sits in the courtroom for issues dealing with procedural motions at the Broward Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018
That delay cost precious minutes.
'They brought a young lady down from the third floor. I guess she had a pulse up top. When they got back downstairs, she was gone,' sheriff's Sgt. Christopher Palmara told investigators.
Peterson retired shortly after it was revealed he failed to enter the building to confront Cruz.
Morford was recently transferred to another job while the school district investigates his actions before the shooting, including whether he brushed aside students' concerns about Cruz, who attended the school in 2016 and 2017.
He denies having those conversations, but the state commission investigating the shooting concluded he was not being truthful.
Cruz, now 20, has pleaded not guilty but his attorneys have said he would plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
Link hienalouca.com
https://hienalouca.com/2018/12/19/school-rewound-video-during-massacre-delaying-officers/
Main photo article The police response to the Florida high school massacre was delayed because school officials rewound a school surveillance video, making officers think the gunman was still in the building, a new report shows.
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports documents show then-Marjory Stoneman Douglas...
It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
Dianne Reeves US News HienaLouca
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/12/19/05/7603196-6508435-Security_officer_Kelvin_Greenleaf-m-36_1545198599831.jpg
Комментариев нет:
Отправить комментарий