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Darkness - Episode 6: 'A state of shock' | The UT Tower sniper

<p>Ninety-six minutes after the shooting began, the sniper is dead. Everyone nearby converges on campus. Law enforcement and journalists work to identify the dead. Hospitals struggle with the influx of patients. Friends and families mourn their loved ones.</p>

Episode 6: 'A state of shock' | 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.

Martinez looked up at me and motioned me to get lower as three bullets, friendly fire

from the shooters below the tower, splattered the wall above my head.

I was doing the duck walk as I was shooting at him, and coloring him a cord fired with a shotgun.

As the first shot would prove to be instantly fatal, I saw him alive for only a split second

before he was dead and of no more danger.

So I just dropped shotgun, picked him up and still put it in my holster and I said I had

We knew it was over and things went quiet.

Up on the University of Texas Tower Observation Deck, police officers Ranger Ray and Houston

Alan Crumb waved a hanker chief above the deck's banister as a white flag.

Crumb, the deputized university co-op employee who joined the police to stop the sniper,

ATBC News Director Neil Spells continued to broadcast over the radio.

For the past 96 minutes, gunfire had filled the University of Texas campus and the surrounding

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.

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0:08.6	This podcast contains strong language, references and descriptions of domestic abuse, violence
0:15.1	and suicide.
0:17.0	It also has graphic descriptions of gun violence in schools.
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0:29.4	Only on this season of darkness.
0:31.8	Martinez looked up at me and motioned me to get lower as three bullets, friendly fire
0:37.0	from the shooters below the tower, splattered the wall above my head.
0:41.4	I was doing the duck walk as I was shooting at him, and coloring him a cord fired with a shotgun.
0:52.0	As the first shot would prove to be instantly fatal, I saw him alive for only a split second
0:57.2	before he was dead and of no more danger.
1:01.4	So I just dropped shotgun, picked him up and still put it in my holster and I said I had
1:06.3	enough.
1:16.1	We knew it was over and things went quiet.
1:20.9	Up on the University of Texas Tower Observation Deck, police officers Ranger Ray and Houston
1:27.2	McCoy had just killed the sniper.
1:30.1	Alan Crumb waved a hanker chief above the deck's banister as a white flag.
1:34.9	Crumb, the deputized university co-op employee who joined the police to stop the sniper,
1:41.1	signaled to those below to cease fire.
1:49.6	ATBC News Director Neil Spells continued to broadcast over the radio.
2:02.8	For the past 96 minutes, gunfire had filled the University of Texas campus and the surrounding
2:09.2	area.
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Episode 6: 'A state of shock' | The UT Tower sniper

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