Last night we witnessed the standoff between our neighborhood Fairfield, Connecticut Police and a reportedly suicidal shooter, just down the...
Last night we witnessed the standoff between our neighborhood Fairfield, Connecticut Police and a reportedly suicidal shooter, just down the street from our house, and 18 miles from where the Newtown shootings took place. According to "Doing It Local," the man had in his possession two Glocks, an AR-15 and a 12-gauge shot gun. Shortly after becoming aware of the initial commotion, we heard a man with a bullhorn loudly shouting repeatedly to, "come out, pick up the phone, we want to make sure you're alright." This is the first "suicide negotiation" I have witnessed, but I wish for this guy's sake that the negotiator had a little more tact. The shouting from the bullhorn went on for less than 10 minutes, when a shot rang out in the apartment complex. We saw swat police with guns swarming the back of the building where the shot came from, and instinctually headed the other way. As we did, a second wave of swat police rushed to the scene. What seemed unusual, was that it seemed as though the man had escaped. The police even say to us that the man is "out with a gun." From the volume of the gun shot you hear on the video, it's clear that I'm very close to the action. I was. I was a house away. The actions of the police would seem to indicate that the police didn't know whether the man had left or not, or where the gunshot had come from. I was there before most of them. After the shot is fired, the negotiator goes back to shouting on his bullhorn. We were then stopped by police ... Less
