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Erin Burnett OutFront

Now: Police Interviewing School Shooter’s Parents

Erin Burnett OutFront

CNN

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4.4706 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The judge in Trump’s New York hush money trial just ruled the president does not have immunity from his historic conviction. This comes in spite of the Supreme Court's sweeping presidential immunity ruling. Plus, the suspect of a school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The shooting left one student and one teacher dead and six injured, including two people who are facing life-threatening conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Whitney Wilde is out front live from Madison, Wisconsin.

0:03.0

And Whitney, I know you were just in mass press conference.

0:06.0

You were the one who got the information about the shooter's parents right now being in an interview with police.

0:12.0

What more are you learning?

0:14.0

Well, Aaron, there are still many details left to learn.

0:19.0

But what we know at this point is that this teenager, according to law enforcement, source was a female, a 17-year-old who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

0:27.6

As you mentioned, police are interviewing the parents as we speak.

0:31.2

That is absolutely critical as they tried to figure out what the motive was here, Aaron.

0:36.0

At this point, Chief Sean Barnes, the chief of the

0:38.5

Madison Police Department, could not describe in detail the motive. I asked if the parents

0:44.5

are supplying that information. He was reluctant to say that they were because the most important

0:48.8

thing he says in an interview like that is to just let the parents talk and keep that conversation free flowing.

0:55.0

The critical details, Erin, that we did learn at this press conference for the first time all day

0:59.0

is what kind of security protocols that school has in place.

1:03.0

And it's really a lesson for schools even beyond Madison because the representative of the school here

1:09.0

said that they took advantage of Department of Justice safety grants to help them beef up their security.

1:15.6

And as part of that, Aaron, they were able to upload blueprints of their school.

1:19.6

And so when police arrived, they were able to download those blueprints of the school immediately, which significantly helps a police response. We know that police response was immediate,

1:29.7

Aaron. It was within three minutes. That call came in at 10.57 a.m. Police were inside that building

1:35.2

by 11 a.m. Law enforcement did not fire any shots, according to police. Again, there's a law

1:42.1

enforcement source saying that that suspect died the self-inflicted

1:44.8

gunshot ruined Aaron.

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