Not only that .. wasn't the women officer/guard shot?
No one heard the gun shot?
No. The female guard was not shot. She was beaten. They did think she'd been shot at the hospital but it has turned out not to be the case. He beat her unconscious for 30 seconds and then continued beating her for 3 minutes.
There was something last night about the panic button, but I missed the discussion. I think it didn't work.
And the cops are not permitted to wear their guns into the courthouse. So once the slaughter happened, they had to stand in line to retrieve their guns.
And I'd been under the impression that Nichols attacked the female deputy, opened the door to the courtroom and started shooting. He didn't. He had to walk across a walkway that attaches the changing room area and the courtroom. They are in separate buildings.
So if those people who are supposed to monitor the changing room had done their job, they could have put the courthouse in lockdown!