Originally Posted by
Hummer
Thanks for your account of what you saw. Did you take stills, submit them to the PD and retain the originals?
The DA notified staff at 3:02 to advise and to avoid the area. My understanding is that Talley and two other officers took gear from their vehicles and entered together. Whether they took rifles, shotguns and ballistic vests hasn't been revealed but the information is known but so far withheld. Officer Talley reportedly died of a head wound.
It's curious that Ahmad al Aliwi Alissa disarmed, stripped and walked backwards to surrender. Was this upon command by officers or was it a preplanned effort? In any case he chose to save himself after murdering ten innocent people rather than meeting his 99 virgins.
A common denominator in mass murderers is cowardice, and of course mental illness. No one commits murder of innocents without mental illness but it does not absolve them of responsibiltiy or atonement.