Hmm, fishy yes, but I don’t think I would do much talking to the Press if I saw that kind of carnage against the innocent (that being said, I would have been armed and proactive).
If you were a witness in this situation, would you rather talk first to the police or the press?
I would probably slap the reporter who shoved a mic in my face.
Not very many first-hand witnesses to the shootings are in any condition to talk about it, and three of the four who were able to get out of the classroom where most of the deaths occurred, have talked to the press (Trey Perkins, Derek O’Dellon, and Erin Sheehan) — all the others were dead or too severely injured to get themselves out. Apparently most of the deaths and severe injuries, other than the two in the first shooting, occurred in a single classroom where a German class was in progress. And 7:15AM in a dorm room wasn’t exactly a high visibility location either.
There may have one other classroom with multiple fatalities, but I have no trouble seeing how students who were trapped in a situation like that wouldn’t feel like talking to strangers about it just yet. And the settings were such that there were few if any witnesses to actual shootings who weren’t trapped in a room while the shooting was going on. Most first hand accounts are just reports of seeing students running out of buildings, seeing armed LEOs, etc.
A lot of first hand student accounts (including some of the actual shootings) are compiled here, along with a second hand account by a young man whose girlfriend was shot.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10434646