Whitman’s name isn’t mentioned until more than hour into the film. The sniper’s face doesn’t appear in animation only his legs are shown after he’s killed by police and a store manager who made their way to the top of the clock tower. ![]() Police and ordinary Texans would eventually rush to get their own guns and fire back, in vain, at Whitman from the ground. Some scrambled for any cover they could find in the nearly 100-degree heat. Men, women and a newspaper delivery boy were shot without warning, before they even knew to be afraid - and some survived. Rather than focusing on the sniper, though, the documentary explores what it was like on the ground during his rampage. He had killed his wife and mother prior to heading to the tower, one victim died a week later and medical examiners eventually attributed a 17th death to Whitman in 2001. The documentary has begun opening in theaters nationally, five decades after an attack in which Whitman, then 25, killed 13 people and wounded nearly three dozen others. ![]() No authority saying ‘Stand back.’ We were able to go straight onto the campus.” There was no police tape marking anything off. ![]() “It was really an unbelievable scene, unlike anything anyone had ever seen before and you didn’t have any frame of reference,” Spelce, then 30, said in a phone interview.
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