DPS Director: ‘True Heroes in Those Pews ... Undoubtedly Saved 242 Lives’

WILLIAMS: "My name is Joeff Willaims, thank you again for coming. I want to echo the comments that have already been made her tonight.It cannot be overstated how important it is that everyone recognized what took place here today. The citizens who were inside that church undoubtedly saved 242 other parishioners and that might get swept aside in this whole conversation about active shooter response and God knows law enforcement has done a whole bunch of work to make our response better. We needed to do that but we’re starting to find out that over half of these are over before we get there I want to come in the chief and his department. Their response was, I mean it’s never going to get faster than that it was miraculous. And so the true heroes in this, for the people who were sitting in those pews today and responded the immediate responders that saved their fellow-citizens and I just can’t overstate how critical that is for everyone to recognize. It is truly heroic and the citizens- the citizens of this community have a lot to be proud for their response so with that I’ll take any questions. I might not be able to answer all that for you."