Police get a call about a person who has a gun, who already shot someone, and is threatening to kill himself. Logically speaking, a person that is erretic enough to report themselves like that isn’t likely far from the idea of deciding to shoot their neighbors or others in view too.

A person with a gun shooting even in the general direction of people, even if they don’t hit anything, is enough for me to say every officer in the area should be responding. If the first officers get there and become targets that are killed, more are showing up or are on the way. In a shooting situation it should be the goal of police to become the target being shot at instead of innocent civilians.

They can’t know if this kind of call is real or not, so they have to treat it like it is real. I would rather there be a few hours of chaos on a residential street for a false alarm by treating every report thsi seriously compared to something like the Ulvade school shooting happening again because police didn’t want to show up or were too scared to do their job.