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That's exactly the point: the police should not have kept the first shooting quiet for so long simply because they believed it to be a "domestic dispute." That's not an excuse.Because officials guessed the killings were a domestic dispute, they allowed hundreds of students to travel around campus even though an armed killer was loose.
Officials said in the press conference that they did not lockdown, evacuate, or alert the campus to the first two murders because they assumed (incorrectly, as it turns out) that it was a "domestic dispute." If the officials had simply treated the murders as TWO MURDERS until proven otherwise, would they have waited until 9:30 to tell people and noon to evacuate? I doubt it.
Re: logistics: Administrators had the capacity to shut down classes and evacuate the campus quickly --they did it last year when the convict was loose. They could have done it again -- they just chose not to.
