From http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0820/Georgia-school-shooting-Suspect-is-in-custody-after-reports-of-gunfire-video
A teen was in custody Tuesday, accused of firing shots from an assault rifle at an Atlanta-area elementary school where dramatic television footage showed young students racing out of the building, being escorted by teachers and police to safety.
The 800 or so students in pre-kindergarten to fifth grade were evacuated from Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, a few miles east of Atlanta.
The suspect, a 19-year-old man with no clear ties to the school, fired at least a half-dozen shots with an assault rifle from inside the school and officers returned fire when the man was alone and they had a clear shot, DeKalb County Police Chief Cedric L. Alexander said at a news conference.
(First, the man shot at the school, then he shot from the school at police officers. The flow of the text indicates that the shots fired by the teen from inside the school AND those fired by the teen from outside the school were the same shots.)
Though the school has a system where people must be buzzed in, the gunman slipped inside behind someone authorized to be there, Alexander said.
(According to the news article, the gunman first fired shots at the school. He then slipped inside the school building behind someone authorized to be there. This indicates that the person going inside the building was present at the time of the shooting, and was not forced by the gunman to let him in.)
The suspect, whose identity was not released, never got past the front office, where he held one or two employees captive for a time, and was being questioned at the police department, (DeKalb County Police Chief Cedric L.) Alexander said. No charges had yet been filed.
(The statement "never got past the front office" indicates that he was prevented by someone or something 'inside' the school. Also, if a man shoots up a school, takes hostages, fires a half-dozen shots at police officers AND US Marshals, under normal circumstances there would be charges aplenty. Why were there no charges filed and the gunman only questioned at the police station?)
A woman in the school office called WSB-TV as it was happening to say the gunman asked her to contact the Atlanta station and police. WSB said during the call, shots were heard in the background. Assignment editor Lacey Lecroy said she spoke with the woman who said she was alone with the man and his gun was visible.
(A woman is being held hostage by a gunman in the front office. She calls a local TV station at the urging of the gunman. She then speaks with an assignment editor there (Lacey Lecroy) and tells her that she is alone with the gunman. Earlier in the article it is mentioned that the gunman held one or two people hostage. There was no mention of negotiations for prisoner release, so what happened to the other person? Was the statement of more than one hostage being held, given by Chief Alexander, inaccurate?)
"It didn't take long to know that this woman was serious," Lecroy said. "Shots were one of the last things I heard. I was so worried for her."
U.S. Marshals and other law enforcement took the man into custody after the shootout. Alexander said the man had other weapons.
(According to the article the gunman asked the woman to call the television station first, and then the police. Since, according to the article the gunman fired shots at the police while the woman was on the phone with the television station, where did she get the time to call the police? Also, why were the U.S. Marshals involved? The text of the story, presumably related by Chief Alexander, seems to indicate that U.S. Marshals assisted in the arrest of the gunman. Why were U.S. Marshals on the scene, with the police, before the police were even called? The only answer for this is that the U.S. Marshals office, AND Dekalb County police, were called in advance of the shooting. This indicates that someone knew the shooting was going to take place, perhaps even someone who knew the gunman, and made plans to call them before the shooter even got there. If this is the case, why did the police, and the U.S. Marshals, let the situation escalate to the extent that it did? Why did they not arrest the man as soon as he fired the first shots at the school, unless the gunman did not fire the shots, or it was the police and U.S. Marshals who shot the school?)
Complicating the rescue, bomb-sniffing dogs alerted officers to something in the suspect's trunk and investigators believe the man may have been carrying explosives, Alexander said. Officials cut a hole in a fence to make sure students running from the building could get even farther away to a nearby street, he said.
(Yet, according to an article on http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/dekalb-police-chief-responds-incident-elementary-s/nZTRH/ has the situation like this: Alexander told Channel 2’s Ryan Young firefighters cut a hole in a nearby residence so children could evacuate the school grounds through the back of that home. Chief Alexander first said that (rescue) officials cut a hole in a fence for children to get away. Then he says that firefighters cut a hole in a nearby residence so children could get away. Pictures of the school clearly show children by a fence, albeit no hole in it at the time. Photos also show what appears to be some sort of window behind some trees near the school, but the thickness of the trees presents a severe barrier for getting the children to safety. The only possible explanation for the police and/or U.S. Marshals cutting a hole in the house attached to the window, that was behind the thick treeline is that they knew about the shooting incident in advance and had planned to lead the children through the house in the first place.
Helicopter footage from ABC News shows children running from the school, as shots were being fired. Police were already on the scene at this time, yet the police had not yet been called. How is this possible unless the police knew about the attack in advance? Plus, in the same video, it shows that the gunman fired shots at police through the office doors, and police returning fire.)
Police had strung yellow tape up blocking intersections near the school while children waited to be taken to Wal-Mart where hundreds of people were anticipating their arrival. The crowd waved from behind yellow police tape as buses packed with children started pulling up along the road at the store. The smiling children waved back.
(Earlier in the article the children were made to wait before being taken to Wal-Mart where "hundreds of people were anticipating their arrival." "The crowd (at Wal-Mart) waved from behind yellow police tape as buses packed with children started pulling up along the road at the store. This indicates that the police tape was in place before the crowds got there. In a fast moving situation like this, police don't have time to set up caution tape both at the school and at the Wal-Mart, before they are even called, unless they knew about the shooting in advance, and had the tape at Wal-Mart, 4.1 miles away from the school near Belvedere Park, beside the DeKalb School of the Arts. Why also were the parents made to pick up their children from Wal-Mart instead of picking them up at the school? Why were the parents and relatives of the students made to wait two hours at Wal-Mart before the children were brought to them? Were the children questioned about the incident without their parents being present? If so, why, and, were the parents even notified of such a thing happening?)
Regional superintendent Rachel Zeigler used a megaphone to say children were on the buses by grade level and that each bus would also be carrying an administrator, a teacher and a Georgia Bureau of Investigation officer. Relatives had to show ID, sign each child out and have their photo taken.
(Why was Miss Zeigler using a megaphone to speak to the crowd of people at the school when a crowd of people were waiting for the children at Wal-Mart? Why were the children moved onto the buses by grade level? This indicates a carefully thought out evacuation plan. Why also would each bus be carrying a Georgia Bureau of Investigation officer on it? According to their own website, http://gbi.georgia.gov/, "The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) is an independent, statewide agency that provides assistance to the state's criminal justice system in the areas of criminal investigations, forensic laboratory services and computerized criminal justice information." This, combined with the fact that the parents and guardians of the Robert E. McNair Discovery Of the Arts were required to give photo identification, sign each child out, and also consent to a photo being taken (before the children were handed over to them) indicates that the parents and guardians of the children of the school were under criminal investigation in connection with the school shooting. Why were they called in in addition to the DeKalb County police, and the U.S. Marshals? Did they expect some of the children to have information about the shooter? According to the story, the gunman, found out to be Michael Brandon Hill, had no known connections to the school. This should rule out the need for any confiscation of ID.)
The school has about 870 children enrolled. The academy is named after McNair, an astronaut who died when the space shuttle Challenger exploded on Jan. 28, 1986, according to the school's website.
Jonessia White, the mother of a kindergartner, said the school's doors are normally locked.
"I took (my son) to school this morning and had to be buzzed in," she said. "So I'm wondering how the guy got in the door."
(According to the above article, the school has an electronic admission system present where parents and other visitors must be buzzed in. According to Chief Alexander, he slipped in behind someone that had right to enter the building. With no apparent place to hide by the door and slip in unnoticed, and carrying multiple weapons, an AK-47 specifically being mentioned, plus, with no mention of the person being taken hostage themselves, the only thing that can be concluded is that the person who entered the school ahead of the gunman was an accomplice to the crime.)
Jackie Zamora, 61, of Decatur, was at the Wal-Mart waiting and said her 6-year-old grandson was inside the school when the shooting was reported and she panicked for more than an hour because she hadn't heard whether or not anyone had been injured.
She said the school has a set of double doors where visitors must be buzzed in and show identification to a camera to be allowed in.
(That a person had to show identification before being let inside only serves to confirm that Mr. Hill was let in on purpose.)
School volunteer Deborah Haynes said she encountered the suspect without knowing it.
She stopped by the office at the end of her shift and saw a man talking to a secretary but she did not see a gun.
"I heard him say, 'I'm not here to harm any staff or any parents or students. He said he wanted to speak to a police officer."
"By the time I got to 2nd Avenue, I heard gunshots," she said.
(If Miss Haynes had actually seen the gunman as she walked out of the office, then this would have been just before the office worker called the television station, supposedly before police even knew about the incident. Miss Haynes' statement "By the time I got to 2nd Avenue, I heard gunshots," indicates that the police were already there and involved in the shooting. For certain, Miss Haynes would have seen the police, U.S. Marshals and Georgia Bureau of Investigation officials already on the scene. Plus, the statement that the gunman supposedly made "I'm not here to harm any staff or any parents or students. I want to speak to a police officer," conflicts with previous statements saying that Mr. Hill asked the office worker, a female, to call the television studio and the police in that only the police were mentioned as being asked to be spoken to.)
Additional versions of the official story can be found at the follow websites: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/20/michael-brandon-hill-mcnair-elementary-school-shooting-_n_3787676.html, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/20/mcnair-elementary-school-gunman_n_3786109.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular, http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/dekalb-police-chief-responds-incident-elementary-s/nZTRH/, http://abcnews.go.com/US/elementary-school-clerk-convinced-suspect-put-weapons-surrender/story?id=20014879
A teen was in custody Tuesday, accused of firing shots from an assault rifle at an Atlanta-area elementary school where dramatic television footage showed young students racing out of the building, being escorted by teachers and police to safety.
The 800 or so students in pre-kindergarten to fifth grade were evacuated from Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, a few miles east of Atlanta.
The suspect, a 19-year-old man with no clear ties to the school, fired at least a half-dozen shots with an assault rifle from inside the school and officers returned fire when the man was alone and they had a clear shot, DeKalb County Police Chief Cedric L. Alexander said at a news conference.
(First, the man shot at the school, then he shot from the school at police officers. The flow of the text indicates that the shots fired by the teen from inside the school AND those fired by the teen from outside the school were the same shots.)
Though the school has a system where people must be buzzed in, the gunman slipped inside behind someone authorized to be there, Alexander said.
(According to the news article, the gunman first fired shots at the school. He then slipped inside the school building behind someone authorized to be there. This indicates that the person going inside the building was present at the time of the shooting, and was not forced by the gunman to let him in.)
The suspect, whose identity was not released, never got past the front office, where he held one or two employees captive for a time, and was being questioned at the police department, (DeKalb County Police Chief Cedric L.) Alexander said. No charges had yet been filed.
(The statement "never got past the front office" indicates that he was prevented by someone or something 'inside' the school. Also, if a man shoots up a school, takes hostages, fires a half-dozen shots at police officers AND US Marshals, under normal circumstances there would be charges aplenty. Why were there no charges filed and the gunman only questioned at the police station?)
A woman in the school office called WSB-TV as it was happening to say the gunman asked her to contact the Atlanta station and police. WSB said during the call, shots were heard in the background. Assignment editor Lacey Lecroy said she spoke with the woman who said she was alone with the man and his gun was visible.
(A woman is being held hostage by a gunman in the front office. She calls a local TV station at the urging of the gunman. She then speaks with an assignment editor there (Lacey Lecroy) and tells her that she is alone with the gunman. Earlier in the article it is mentioned that the gunman held one or two people hostage. There was no mention of negotiations for prisoner release, so what happened to the other person? Was the statement of more than one hostage being held, given by Chief Alexander, inaccurate?)
"It didn't take long to know that this woman was serious," Lecroy said. "Shots were one of the last things I heard. I was so worried for her."
U.S. Marshals and other law enforcement took the man into custody after the shootout. Alexander said the man had other weapons.
(According to the article the gunman asked the woman to call the television station first, and then the police. Since, according to the article the gunman fired shots at the police while the woman was on the phone with the television station, where did she get the time to call the police? Also, why were the U.S. Marshals involved? The text of the story, presumably related by Chief Alexander, seems to indicate that U.S. Marshals assisted in the arrest of the gunman. Why were U.S. Marshals on the scene, with the police, before the police were even called? The only answer for this is that the U.S. Marshals office, AND Dekalb County police, were called in advance of the shooting. This indicates that someone knew the shooting was going to take place, perhaps even someone who knew the gunman, and made plans to call them before the shooter even got there. If this is the case, why did the police, and the U.S. Marshals, let the situation escalate to the extent that it did? Why did they not arrest the man as soon as he fired the first shots at the school, unless the gunman did not fire the shots, or it was the police and U.S. Marshals who shot the school?)
Complicating the rescue, bomb-sniffing dogs alerted officers to something in the suspect's trunk and investigators believe the man may have been carrying explosives, Alexander said. Officials cut a hole in a fence to make sure students running from the building could get even farther away to a nearby street, he said.
(Yet, according to an article on http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/dekalb-police-chief-responds-incident-elementary-s/nZTRH/ has the situation like this: Alexander told Channel 2’s Ryan Young firefighters cut a hole in a nearby residence so children could evacuate the school grounds through the back of that home. Chief Alexander first said that (rescue) officials cut a hole in a fence for children to get away. Then he says that firefighters cut a hole in a nearby residence so children could get away. Pictures of the school clearly show children by a fence, albeit no hole in it at the time. Photos also show what appears to be some sort of window behind some trees near the school, but the thickness of the trees presents a severe barrier for getting the children to safety. The only possible explanation for the police and/or U.S. Marshals cutting a hole in the house attached to the window, that was behind the thick treeline is that they knew about the shooting incident in advance and had planned to lead the children through the house in the first place.
Helicopter footage from ABC News shows children running from the school, as shots were being fired. Police were already on the scene at this time, yet the police had not yet been called. How is this possible unless the police knew about the attack in advance? Plus, in the same video, it shows that the gunman fired shots at police through the office doors, and police returning fire.)
Police had strung yellow tape up blocking intersections near the school while children waited to be taken to Wal-Mart where hundreds of people were anticipating their arrival. The crowd waved from behind yellow police tape as buses packed with children started pulling up along the road at the store. The smiling children waved back.
(Earlier in the article the children were made to wait before being taken to Wal-Mart where "hundreds of people were anticipating their arrival." "The crowd (at Wal-Mart) waved from behind yellow police tape as buses packed with children started pulling up along the road at the store. This indicates that the police tape was in place before the crowds got there. In a fast moving situation like this, police don't have time to set up caution tape both at the school and at the Wal-Mart, before they are even called, unless they knew about the shooting in advance, and had the tape at Wal-Mart, 4.1 miles away from the school near Belvedere Park, beside the DeKalb School of the Arts. Why also were the parents made to pick up their children from Wal-Mart instead of picking them up at the school? Why were the parents and relatives of the students made to wait two hours at Wal-Mart before the children were brought to them? Were the children questioned about the incident without their parents being present? If so, why, and, were the parents even notified of such a thing happening?)
Regional superintendent Rachel Zeigler used a megaphone to say children were on the buses by grade level and that each bus would also be carrying an administrator, a teacher and a Georgia Bureau of Investigation officer. Relatives had to show ID, sign each child out and have their photo taken.
(Why was Miss Zeigler using a megaphone to speak to the crowd of people at the school when a crowd of people were waiting for the children at Wal-Mart? Why were the children moved onto the buses by grade level? This indicates a carefully thought out evacuation plan. Why also would each bus be carrying a Georgia Bureau of Investigation officer on it? According to their own website, http://gbi.georgia.gov/, "The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) is an independent, statewide agency that provides assistance to the state's criminal justice system in the areas of criminal investigations, forensic laboratory services and computerized criminal justice information." This, combined with the fact that the parents and guardians of the Robert E. McNair Discovery Of the Arts were required to give photo identification, sign each child out, and also consent to a photo being taken (before the children were handed over to them) indicates that the parents and guardians of the children of the school were under criminal investigation in connection with the school shooting. Why were they called in in addition to the DeKalb County police, and the U.S. Marshals? Did they expect some of the children to have information about the shooter? According to the story, the gunman, found out to be Michael Brandon Hill, had no known connections to the school. This should rule out the need for any confiscation of ID.)
The school has about 870 children enrolled. The academy is named after McNair, an astronaut who died when the space shuttle Challenger exploded on Jan. 28, 1986, according to the school's website.
Jonessia White, the mother of a kindergartner, said the school's doors are normally locked.
"I took (my son) to school this morning and had to be buzzed in," she said. "So I'm wondering how the guy got in the door."
(According to the above article, the school has an electronic admission system present where parents and other visitors must be buzzed in. According to Chief Alexander, he slipped in behind someone that had right to enter the building. With no apparent place to hide by the door and slip in unnoticed, and carrying multiple weapons, an AK-47 specifically being mentioned, plus, with no mention of the person being taken hostage themselves, the only thing that can be concluded is that the person who entered the school ahead of the gunman was an accomplice to the crime.)
Jackie Zamora, 61, of Decatur, was at the Wal-Mart waiting and said her 6-year-old grandson was inside the school when the shooting was reported and she panicked for more than an hour because she hadn't heard whether or not anyone had been injured.
She said the school has a set of double doors where visitors must be buzzed in and show identification to a camera to be allowed in.
(That a person had to show identification before being let inside only serves to confirm that Mr. Hill was let in on purpose.)
School volunteer Deborah Haynes said she encountered the suspect without knowing it.
She stopped by the office at the end of her shift and saw a man talking to a secretary but she did not see a gun.
"I heard him say, 'I'm not here to harm any staff or any parents or students. He said he wanted to speak to a police officer."
"By the time I got to 2nd Avenue, I heard gunshots," she said.
(If Miss Haynes had actually seen the gunman as she walked out of the office, then this would have been just before the office worker called the television station, supposedly before police even knew about the incident. Miss Haynes' statement "By the time I got to 2nd Avenue, I heard gunshots," indicates that the police were already there and involved in the shooting. For certain, Miss Haynes would have seen the police, U.S. Marshals and Georgia Bureau of Investigation officials already on the scene. Plus, the statement that the gunman supposedly made "I'm not here to harm any staff or any parents or students. I want to speak to a police officer," conflicts with previous statements saying that Mr. Hill asked the office worker, a female, to call the television studio and the police in that only the police were mentioned as being asked to be spoken to.)
Additional versions of the official story can be found at the follow websites: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/20/michael-brandon-hill-mcnair-elementary-school-shooting-_n_3787676.html, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/20/mcnair-elementary-school-gunman_n_3786109.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular, http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/dekalb-police-chief-responds-incident-elementary-s/nZTRH/, http://abcnews.go.com/US/elementary-school-clerk-convinced-suspect-put-weapons-surrender/story?id=20014879
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