I dunno, maybe it feels better to know than to not know. The scariest monsters are always unseen, conjured up by your imagination. If we knew what he was up to, why he did it, etc. then maybe we would have some control over people like this in the future. Not knowing is terrifying. It means that at any time, anyone around us can do this and most of us can’t really handle that well
nothing you posted required the dead bodies remain there. After reference pictures are taken then their bodies should be released. I don’t see a great deal of time involved in this part of the investigation. They literally have all the time in the world to study the blood splatter marks and anything else that fills in the blank spaces of the investigation. It’s pretty clear who killed them and where.
I disagree. I will not take fault with them taking their time to ensure they have gleaned all the information they can. It is protocol, and I am sure it is important for a variety of reasons. For one, what if in a tragedy like this they realized part-way through the investigation that there was a second shooter, still alive. That precise accounting would be what got him off the streets.
I can’t imagine the cops delay releasing the bodies unnecessarily; I can’t imagine they enjoy working around the bodies of dead kindergarteners.
The Medical Examiner (I think that’s his title) is just giving a press conference. All the children’s autopsies have been completed, and the poor man sounds like he is hanging on by a thread. He did seven of them himself 
Tough day.
I remember way back when Pope John Paul II had that attempt on his life. That evening the network would have been showing the movie “Foul Play” in which part of the plot is an attempt on the life of a Pope. They pulled it and showed another movie instead.
So what if its oversensitive. For one or two days caring more about potentially hurting people wins. This world coud use a touch more of people bending over backwards to be kind.
the m.e. mentioned that they had cleared the scene at 1ish am. it does need to be done carefully and with precision, even if there will be no court case.
15 hours is a really remarkable time. some time just one person will be at a crime scene for longer than that.
Seriously, the “stop being so sensitive to the people who are upset about all the kids who were gunned down yesterday!” argument is not getting a lot of traction with me today.
This is now being contradicted. They’re saying he was not buzzed in and “forced his way in.” In the real world I suspect that means
It doesn’t sound like any force was necessary to get in. It sounds like he “forced” his way in only in the sense that he wasn’t supposed to be there.
Actually, I just saw a story on… I think the NY Times, that indicated the shooter possibly broke his way in, which is where the broken glass came from that some of the victims described seeing.
There was a press conference this morning and someone asked a question that couldn’t quite be heard, but the State Police rep responded with something like… yes, during the investigation anyone found in the surrounding woods would have been detained for questioning “even if they were just cutting wood.”
In the same press conference he also stated that he forced his way in against the new security measures which makes me doubt he just walked in. Also one of the initial dispatcher tapes mentions reports that the front glass was shattered.
They are also now reporting that the principal was killed as she was “lunging” at the shooter.
My mom was watching a news conference with the coroner, and she was shocked and dismayed at the stupid questions the reporters were asking. One guy asked, “What were the victims wearing?” The corner looked at him with disbelief in his eyes and muttered something like “Little kids clothes.”
WTF media?
edit: They were also going over how may bullets each victim has in them, and the extent of their wounds. Why do we even want or need to know this?
I can’t ever remember such a story with so much early misinformation. The coroner has now stated that all the victims were shot at close range with a rifle, and the earlier info said he left his rifle in his car and used two handguns. Also, every victim was shot at least 3 times.
It kind of makes you wonder if the local law enforcement is a little incompetent or some people were talking to the media who shouldn’t have been and didn’t know enough.
We don’t. The “reporters” who asked these questions need to be dragged through the electronic mud. If I were the coroner I would have answered the clothes question by asking for the reporter’s name and affiliation.
We’re all starved for the basic information. WHY did this guy do it. Did he leave a trail of breadcrumbs we can learn from. How did he get into the school. Who are the hero’s who saved the other kids.
Fuck the media.
After hearing all day long yesterday that the shit-eating killer’s mother was a teacher at the school, now it’s casually mentioned that “Oh, by the way his mom was not and never was a teacher, and the only connection the bastard had to the school was that he attended it as a child.”
My sentiments exactly.
All the reporters and news services want to be the first to report any given fact, so there’s a heedless stampede. They end up with egg on their faces but then do it all over again when the next big event occurs.
The children were all in the first grade. Sixteen of them were six years old, four of them were seven years old.
It’s been reported that all the children were shot multiple times, up to 11 times. It may have been difficult to positively identify the children, and I’m guessing that it was not a situation where parents could pick up the pretty body of their lifeless child. It was reported that parents were asked to identify their children by a photograph to spare them some horror.
The police went through something horrific, and it seems to me that they’ve handled the tragedy with professionalism and sensitivity.
I’m thinking exactly the opposite. Not the horrific part, but the rest. Given the ridiculous amount of bad information that was put out yesterday by the press quoting “police sources”, it seems to me there must have been a bunch of ill-informed gossipy cops passing along the latest rumors to the press.
And those of us monitoring the news almost never remember who was first or even care. Especially when the story changes so often because everyone else did so badly. It’s all one big ego trip and the people who are harmed by it are the “customers”.