Episode 7: '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 Drac.
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.
0:22.0	Mental health is an important part of this story, so please take care while listening.
0:29.8	It's mostly on this season of darkness.
0:34.9	All of a sudden, but hold up knowledge, stores, and all the drag which came running out
0:38.1	towards the main mall.
0:40.2	It was an eerie sight, and this sense, it was quiet.
0:46.7	So I went back in Breckenridge Hospital, and there were currenties and people everywhere.
0:59.4	What happened on August 1st dominated the news cycle in both Austin and the world for
1:04.8	the next week.
1:07.4	Just streets away from the University of Texas, the sound of ringing phones filled the
1:12.5	KTBC newsroom.
1:15.1	As the shooting progressed on August 1st, more and more news stations across the US called
1:20.7	in for updates.
1:23.1	And they kept calling, long after the shooting ended.
1:27.5	Neil Spells remembers the chaos that followed at KTBC.
1:31.6	It just happened on a Monday, and we worked straight through every day, every day, every
1:36.4	day.
1:37.4	Four hours of sleep at night, if that, a Friday, I was a basket case.
1:45.4	The adrenaline, I mean, there wasn't any left.
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