I just listened to the radio traffic (police radio). It helps to have a map of the area open. This is the address:
3470 Centennial Boulevard, Colorado Springs, CO
From what I can tell, the initial altercation/gunfire occurred in the parking lot(s). There is a victim reported in the PP lot, and a victim in the eye care center lot, which is immediately to the east. Then a cop reports that he has been hit around 200 yards south, near a King Sooper’s store and Chase Bank.
This unfolds for around 15 minutes, in which the officers characterize him as ‘behind’ PP, and place him at the northwest corner of the building. The next 15 minutes contains occasional traffic that he has shot towards the officers at the bank (to the south), and at the 30 minute mark they are sure he is now inside PP. They didn’t see him run in there, but it happened between the 15 and 30 minute mark.
What happened? Hard to tell. The initial gun play in the parking lot could have been against a security guard, or somebody like that. He could have been readying himself to storm PP...but he just as easily could have been staging for a robbery at the bank to the south. Short of one statement (from an anonymous source) about ‘baby parts’, we really don’t know.
What we do know: While this (probably) began in the parking lot of PP, it didn’t begin inside the building of PP. Therefore, it is really pre-mature to say this was an ‘attack’ on PP. Time will tell...but the media won’t wait for the facts to come out.
That was my initial reaction, based on the conclusions being drawn from implication rather than hard fact.
Of course, a lot of my piece is answering those implications. I felt compelled to write something after looking at the Buzzfeed article detailing the spurious actions abortionistas plan on taking in response to this and the PP videos...the whole thing has me incensed to say the least