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<p>More law enforcement officers swarm campus and join the efforts to stop the shooter. In the tower, a chaotic situation unfolds as a handful of officers and civilians make their way to the observation deck and exchange fire with the sniper.</p>

Episode 5: 'I had enough' | The UT Tower Sniper

This podcast contains strong language, references and descriptions of domestic abuse, violence,

It also has graphic descriptions of gun violence in schools.

Mental health is an important part of this story, so please take care while listening.

Chip, he stayed with me in the ambulance the whole time and kind of held my body together.

The presence of those guys in the building, shooting these very loud guns, and they seemed

to tiny bit reckless, it wasn't really comforting, it wasn't comforting in the way I'd hoped

And he said, let me have your gun and I'll go shoot that S.O.B.

I need to get down to business and I need to get clear-carried off more.

I was looking at that dolly to see how I was going to kick it back.

Inside the University of Texas Tower, Ranger Ray was preparing to shove the door open onto

On the other side, a dolly was leaning against the glass-pained door.

It had been left by the sniper, who had been shooting at people along the drag and on

Not far behind Ranger Ray was another officer, Houston McCoy.

On August 1, 1966, a sniper climbed the steps of the University of Texas at Austin’s 27-story tower. Seventeen people were killed and more than 30 others were injured. Fifty-six years later, mass shootings make headlines nearly every week. And the University of Texas tower looms over campus, a reminder of one of the first mass school shootings in United States history that has long been forgotten.

In season four of “Darkness,” host Sara Kinney walks through the day of the University of Texas Tower shooting and outlines its legacy among the decades-long epidemic of gun violence in schools. Hear from survivors, heroes and family members about their day in 1966, their lives since then and the state of gun control today.

0:00.0	You're listening to The Drag.
0:07.9	This podcast contains strong language, references and descriptions of domestic abuse, violence,
0:14.6	and suicide.
0:16.2	It also has graphic descriptions of gun violence in schools.
0:21.2	Mental health is an important part of this story, so please take care while listening.
0:27.5	Obviously, on this season of darkness.
0:30.2	Chip, he stayed with me in the ambulance the whole time and kind of held my body together.
0:37.7	He was amazing.
0:40.2	The presence of those guys in the building, shooting these very loud guns, and they seemed
0:47.8	to tiny bit reckless, it wasn't really comforting, it wasn't comforting in the way I'd hoped
0:54.0	it had been.
0:58.0	And he said, let me have your gun and I'll go shoot that S.O.B.
1:02.0	He has killed my whole family.
1:05.2	I need to get down to business and I need to get clear-carried off more.
1:12.3	I was looking at that dolly to see how I was going to kick it back.
1:17.2	A bullet came through the top of a door.
1:24.8	Inside the University of Texas Tower, Ranger Ray was preparing to shove the door open onto
1:29.8	the observation deck.
1:31.7	On the other side, a dolly was leaning against the glass-pained door.
1:35.6	It had been left by the sniper, who had been shooting at people along the drag and on
1:39.6	campus for the past hour and a half.
1:42.5	Not far behind Ranger Ray was another officer, Houston McCoy.
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Episode 5: 'I had enough' | The UT Tower Sniper

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