'A loss that cannot be measured' | The UT Tower Sniper

Darkness

The Drag Audio Production House

True Crime

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The shooting becomes national news. Students return to classes a few days later. Law enforcement continues its investigation. An autopsy is performed on the sniper. A police officer is laid to rest. Victims start their road to recovery.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the drag.
0:05.0	This podcast.
0:08.0	This podcast contains strong language, references and descriptions of domestic abuse, violence, and suicide.
0:17.0	It also has graphic descriptions of gun violence in schools.
0:22.0	Mental health is an important part of this story, so please take care while listening.
0:27.0	Previously on this season of darkness,
0:32.0	The subject is now in police custody.
0:35.0	All of us had been holed up in all these stores along the dry which came running out towards the main mall.
0:40.1	It was quiet.
0:45.0	quiet.
0:46.8	So I went back in Brackenridge Hospital and there were
0:51.9	Kearneys and people everywhere.
0:56.0	What happened on August 1st dominated the new cycle in both Austin and the world for the next week.
1:07.3	Just streets away from the University of Texas, the sound of ringing phones filled the K-TBC newsroom.
1:15.0	As the shooting progressed on August 1st,
1:18.0	more and more news stations across the US
1:20.4	called in for updates. And they kept calling long after the shooting ended.
1:27.0	Neil Spels remembers the chaos that followed at KTBC.
1:31.0	This happened on a Monday and we work straight through every day, every day, every day,
1:37.0	four hours of sleep at night if that.
1:41.0	The Friday, I was a basket case.
1:45.0	The adrenaline, I mean, there wasn't anything left.
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