When there is a fire, hostage situation or other type of emergency what is the natural reaction of concerned family and friends?
1) to be nervous and worried
2) to go inside to try to help
First responders must typically try to calm down loved ones and to prevent them from going inside because they do not like to wait. When they don't wait they often are injured or even perish hence why they are stopped.
What was Jeremy's reaction?
Did Jeremy rush there to help? NO!
Did he immediately call police? NO!
Jeremy called Julie around 3AM and finally got around to calling police at 3:26AM. He claimed he didn't realize at first it was urgent so did NOTHING! other than phone Julie. But after thinking about it a while became more concerned so then decided to call police.
After becoming concerned enough to call police did he go over? No he wanted police to pick him up so they could see he was at his home and alibi him. When that failed he set out to WHF driving 5MPH or less. Then as he saw the police car approaching he pulled over the the side of the road and parked. Several minutes after they passed he got on the road again and finished the drive so that they could see him pull over severla minutes later and say he was not at WHF and thus alibi him.
Is this how a concerned loved one acts? No it is how someone guilty who needs to convince police he had been home all night acts.
Upon arriving does he try to go up to the house to look int he windows or listen to hear if he can hear anything? Does he try to go in like relatives do in such cases? NO! Far from police having to hold him back he made no effort to go in or even get close he hid behind the police. Was he panicked like a concerned love one would be? NO! Police say he was very calm, surprisingly calm.
He told police there was an arsenal in the house, that he had taken Sheila shooting, and that she had fired all wepaons in the house including one he left in the kitchen with a loaded magazine and extra ammunition nearby. This is what convinced police they needed armed personnel and could not go in.
Unarmed personnel could be shot. Moreover, the people inside could also be shot upon police entering. Worse yet after shooting everyone inside she could potentially escape.
2 different firearms teams arrived on the scene the first around 5AM and the 2nd around 7AM. Shortly after the first arrived they surrounded the house and tried to communicate to those inside but received no response. The lack of a response meant:
1) Sheila did not want to talk and the hostages were being kept from talking
2) Sheila did not want to talk and the hostages were dead
3) They were all dead.
Police had no way to know which was the case.
If police entered at that point and everyone was still alive:
Sheila could shoot the hostages and/or police
If they were all dead except Sheila she could shoot police or even try to leave the house through a different door as they entered and threaten police outside or even flee the scene and be at large.
They thus needed enough armed personnel to enter the house and yet still have enough outside to be able to secure the perimiter in case she fled as they entered. After the second batch arrived around 7AM is when they had enough to do that.
They set up the perimeter, assigned the team to enter, made a plan and then exectuted it.
Was there any indication that had they entered the house sooner that anyone would have been alive/ No! According to Dr. Craig the victims had been dead for hours. Had they actually heard gunshots when armed personnel were outside then they would have gone in sooner because if hostages are being shot anyway it is worth trying to save the remainder by going in. But no gunshots were heard and there is ZERO evidence to suggest that the victims died after police arrived on the scene.
The real question is why did Jeremy lie to the initial responders about Sheila firing all the weapons in the house? Why did Jeremy not act like a person who would have in such situation if he had actually been concerned about his family. Why did he lie about the gun being found with the scope and moderator detached and being left on the kitchen table and stage the bullets?
All reliable indications are that he staged everything and that the phone call was made up.
We are supposed to believe that:
1) Around 9 at night he "heard rabbits" quite a ways from the house.
2) For the first time in his life he decided to shoot rabbits though he was opposed to it
3) Nevill decided to remove the scope and moderator for no reason at all instead of leaving them attached like he noramlly did when storing the gun because you would always want to use the gun with the scope and moderator attached and it is a hassle to rezero the scope and there is simply no reaosn to bother taking it off and requiring the effort of rezeroing later
4) That Jeremy decided to load the magazine in the kitchen right in front of Sheila so she could get a good look at how to do it. He took a box of ammo containing 48-50 rounds and dumped it out next to the phone
5) That he left the gun and magazine somewhere in the kitchen. The location changed each time he told the story sometimes the kitchen table sometimes the settle...
6) That June and Nevill didn't bother to move the gun or bullets and left it in the kitchen despite the twins staying over
7) That Sheila used 18-20 rounds from the ammunition supply he left in the kitchen but went to the closet to get an additional 5-7 rounds because there were 30 rounds left in the kitchen and in order for Jeremy's claims to be true that means the killer had to use 5-7 rounds obtained from somewhere else.
That despite being in a frenzy Sheila managed to load the rounds without chipping her nails or getting lead on her hands
9) That sheila managed to beat Nevill without getting any blood spatter on her body or chothing and even suffered no scratches, wounds or broken nails in the incident despite the stock breaking where she would have been holding it and thus would have cut, scratched or otherwise wounded her hand in some way unless she had gloves on
10) That Sheila managed to shoot everyone including herself without getting any GSR on her body or clothing and no back spatter on her clothing or body from the other victims
11) Sheila figured out how to load the gun to capacity (11 rounds) and decided to do so even though she never used the gun before and would not have even likely known how to chamber a round. 11 rounds were fired in the master bedroom at June and Nevill before Nevill managed to run to the kitchen. The way to load the gun to capacity is to insert eh magazine, chamber a round, remove the magazine, load another round into the magazine, reinsert the magazine. Why would Sheila bother with such let alone know how? Only someone who was planning to kill everyone would go out of their way to load an 11th round.
This doesn't even take into account the evidence that proves Sheila can't have killed herself.
