shot him. He moved toward the door to face them.

 

The lead assaulter poked his shielded head around the edge of the door.

 

Puller had his badge out and loudly identified himself. “We’ve got wounded

people outside and in here. You’re going to need multiple ambulances.” The

assault team, ten strong, swept into the room and quickly secured it. Josh

Quentin and his group, once drunk, now stone cold sober, were quickly escorted

downstairs.

 

Those not wounded were sequestered and the initial interview process begun. The

dead were identified by IDs in their wallets and purses. The shriek of ambulance

sirens filtered into the bar.

 

The team turned to triage as they moved among the wounded, while others checked

that the shooters really were dead and that there were no more of them lurking

around.

 

Puller helped with this, and when the ambulances arrived he assisted in lifting

the wounded onto gurneys and then into the waiting rescue vehicles.

 

Homicide detectives showed up about twenty minutes later and started to

officially process the scene. Puller offered to help, but they politely

declined.