"OK, everyone, everyone is here, let's get started."
Chief Hunter does not have the highest position here, as he is an official representative from the state and federal governments, but as the chief of the local police department, he certainly has the highest authority in terms of voice.
After a simple opening remarks, Director Hunter presided over the meeting.
First, I introduced the current situation. The focus of the whole country has been focused here, and the pressure to complete this rescue work is very high.
If something goes wrong in the rescue, no one will be able to bear the blame.
After clearly explaining the seriousness of the incident, Director Hunter then called an intelligence specialist, who introduced the current progress of the situation.
In the past eight hours, the rescue work has gone very poorly.
The terrorists were obviously well prepared, not panicked at all, not in a hurry to make conditions, and were not even willing to contact the outside world.
The police continued to shout to the terrorists through loudspeakers, thus accomplishing two things.
The first thing was to agree with the police to send people to deliver a batch of food and drinks to the stadium to ensure that the hostages would not have any physical problems during the long period of being held hostage.
Maybe the terrorists themselves want to eat and drink, or maybe they are preparing for a protracted war. It is also beneficial to the terrorists to be able to stabilize the hostages.
The terrorists agreed readily and even asked for food and water to be provided every eight hours.
This is also the only request made by the terrorists so far.
The second thing was to agree to a negotiator and enter the stadium to negotiate with him.
It has only been less than 10 minutes since the negotiators came in. The specific outcome of the negotiations is currently unknown. Everything has to wait for the negotiators to come out.
Apart from these two incidents, the police knew very little about the terrorists.
After collecting a large amount of information from all aspects, we currently only know that there must be more than 10 terrorists, and each of them may have an automatic weapon.
Among them are various professionals, as well as various counter-reconnaissance and counter-raid experts.
This is mainly derived from analysis.
After the terrorists entered the stadium, they quickly blocked the four gates leading in and out of the stadium, and even the ventilation ducts and sewers were welded shut.
Because of manpower allocation, it is impossible to assign people to guard every entrance.
In order to prevent the police from breaking through these places, the terrorists also installed wireless remote surveillance cameras near each locked entrance.
Anyone approaching these entrances will be discovered by terrorists immediately.
It is possible to achieve such an airtight all-round blockade with the help of a small amount of equipment. Without professional personnel to direct it, it is simply impossible to achieve it.
Also because the terrorists are so professional, the police dare not take action rashly.
According to the roster obtained from the school, there should be about 280 teachers and students trapped in the stadium.
At that time, two seventh-grade classes were playing a basketball game. It was just a normal school activity, and I never expected that there would be a kidnapping incident.
The terrorists disguised themselves as a sewer construction team and easily entered the school.
There was indeed a sewer blockage in the gymnasium that day.
After the terrorists arrived outside the stadium, they entered the stadium through four gates. Once inside, they blocked the gates, took out automatic rifles from their bags, and began to surround the center.
Of the more than 200 teachers and students in the stadium, not a single one ran out.
The first person to call the police was a gardener who happened to be pruning the gardening trees outside the stadium and witnessed the entire process of the east door being locked.
Lock the door with a gun?
There were so many school shootings that the gardener realized something was wrong and immediately called the police.
Because the terrorists entered too quickly and concealed themselves, the gardener only saw three terrorists on her side, who sealed the door with guns and entered the gymnasium.
So when the gardener called the police, he just said that three armed adults entered the campus.
After calling the police, the security guard was notified.
When the campus security heard that there was an automatic rifle coming in, the security guards, who were paid less than 3,000 US dollars a month, did not dare to go there immediately and could only wait for the police to come before making a decision.
The police heard that only three armed men illegally entered the middle school campus.
So two police cars were assigned to patrol nearby, and a total of five police officers rushed over immediately to provide support and find out what was going on.
Two police cars arrived in less than 5 minutes, and they immediately got out and approached the stadium with guns drawn.
At this time, the gymnasium had been sealed off from all sides. The police circled around but could not find a way to get in. They shouted inside but no one responded.
As a last resort, the police had no choice but to break through and open the east door to enter the stadium.
But just when the police brought demolition hammers and gathered at the door to break open the tempered glass and get inside, the bloodshed happened.
A robber armed with a modified M15 rifle and a motorcycle helmet suddenly jumped out.
Aiming at the door is a fully automatic sweep.
The distance between the two sides was less than 10 meters, and the rifle firepower was very fierce.
The tempered glass was beaten to pieces on the spot, the two policemen standing by the door were knocked to the ground on the spot, and the remaining three policemen had no choice but to flee.
As the police officers were escaping, another terrorist appeared on the second floor, chasing the police officers from the windows and shooting at them.
As a result, another policeman was knocked down, and the remaining two policemen managed to escape, but they quickly fell to the ground and passed out because they were shot several times.
The security guard who had the courage to come up took him to a safer location in the back.
Five police officers were killed and injured on the spot, which finally made the police station realize the seriousness of the situation and immediately sent a large number of additional police officers.
The scene of the police officers being beaten into pieces was filmed by one of the security guards and uploaded to Facebook.
In the video, the robbers showed superb marksmanship, the calmness and ruthlessness when killing, and the tragic death of the policeman, which were wildly forwarded by many people.
In just over an hour, it quickly detonated the entire network.
By the time Long Zhan received Tucker's call, the incident had already detonated the entire United States, and even the federal government had been alerted.
The police who arrived later did not dare to enter the stadium rashly again because of the lessons learned from the previous incident.
Things just came to a standstill!
Even though eight hours have passed since the incident occurred, the information available to them has not changed much due to the terrorists' silence.
No one can give an accurate number on how many terrorists there are.
In addition to M15 rifles, whether terrorists have other weapons and heavy firepower, no one can give an answer.
Why did the terrorists carry out this operation? What exactly do they want?
It’s a mystery within a mystery!
As the saying goes: Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win a hundred battles.
In such a situation where there is a severe lack of information about the enemy and basically no knowledge, any action is extremely dangerous.
It is precisely for this reason.
Although there were hundreds of police officers surrounding the area, they still did not dare to make any move.
In order to break the current deadlock, Director Hunter had to summon all the senior officials who arrived at the scene and held an emergency meeting.
I hope that through brainstorming, we can discuss a suitable rescue plan.
Otherwise, if the stalemate between the two sides continues, the Salt Lake City police will only become more and more passive, and the difficulty of rescue will increase as time goes by.