“The shooting extended from PP (Dear) down to the police (next to Chase Bank, well north of the King Soopers parking lot). “
So it started at PP, moved south to KS and then back to PP? Are you really trying to say that????
Never mind. I’m out of here.
The shooter was at PP. The police were basically pinned down hundreds of feet away, at the Chase Branch, for example. We are talking 700 feet or so. They knew where he was, and they were worried he'd escape around them to the north. It took hours to assemble the necessary forces and isolate the shooter, so that he could be killed or captured (he chose the latter) and rescue the civilians.
There was never any attempt on any bank. His agenda was PP, period.