No hard news from local authorizes for at least 10 hours. “Gag order” issued by mayor.
The Mayor should be removed from office.
We don’t have have CCW here in WI but I’ll assure you that every house “Up North” has many firearms available. This is deer and waterfowl country and every home is well stocked with some kind of firepower.
Putting out a public APB with the shooter’s description would have quickly garnered the desired result.
Of course the local officials knew that and chose not to inform the public with relevant details.
The desired result?
Or perhaps the UNdesired result?
Who is the perp?
Is he "connected"? Related to some "town father" type "person of influence"?
There is often tremendous pressure to sweep "bad news" under the rug in small communities. I say this as someone who lives in a small community, and has lived and worked in small communities for approx. thirty years, and has seen an awful lot of awful stuff -- an awful lot of which never made it to the newspapers.
(The "cone of silence" is quite effective in terms of "keeping it out of the news" but it's less than useless when it comes to keeping it off the grapevine. When you work with a variety of gov't and police officials, and chat with bankers and other in-the-loop folks, you tend to hear things that will basically wreck your faith in "the inherent goodness of your fellow man.")