Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: Shooter 'Could Not See' People He Was Shooting At

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During a press conference on Thursday, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara answered a question of why the shooter barricaded the doors to the church before shooting.

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00:00Do details come out about the moments inside the church?

00:03Yes.

00:03About the doors being locked.

00:05Now that might have protected the kids.

00:07Could you talk to us about that?

00:09So the question was about the doors being locked at the church.

00:14Annunciation Church had a practice that once Mass began,

00:17they locked the doors of the church.

00:20This incident occurred shortly after the Mass was beginning.

00:24So there's no question that the fact that the doors were locked likely saved additional lives.

00:32At the same time, we also know that the shooter intended to barricade

00:37and did barricade the doors on the same side of the church where the shooting occurred.

00:43So what's particularly heinous and cowardly about this

00:49is these children were slaughtered by a shooter who could not see them.

00:54He was standing outside of the building, firing through very narrow church windows

00:58on the level where they would line up with the pews.

01:02And even ultimately, when he got to the rear of the church,

01:06was an entryway that's basically all glass

01:11and fired out the window where a person could walk in,

01:15ultimately did not walk in.

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