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As it turns out, the shots were the shooter. He opened fire on a SWAT officer relieving one of the responding officers. There were also innocents inside the house, and by oversight, a single officer behind the house. I was impressed at the discipline of the officer who also did not take the shot despite a strong hunch and now regularly second guesses that decision as the officer on his small rural police force who was hit died.
I'm sure the larger department that responded had a robot. Not sure the smaller one did. Tough to negotiate with a guy who believes invisible people are shooting at him even before a bunch of visibly armed people show up and try to get him to drop his weapon (which was another area where the officers showed great restraint).
One thing we don't often take into account in planning is not all the actors we face are acting rationally.
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