San Bernardino shooting: Carnage was 'unspeakable,' police say

Fri, Dec 4, 2015

By Greg Botelho and Steve Almasy, CNN

The gunpowder was still lingering in the air as San Bernardino Police Lt. Mike Madden and three other officers approached a conference center where a mass shooting had been reported.

Bodies had fallen outside the meeting room in San Bernardino, California, where a holiday party with about 80 guests had been underway when two people armed with semiautomatic rifles and pistols walked in and sprayed the crowd with scores of bullets.

Fourteen people died and 21 more were wounded. The names of the dead were released Thursday.

Madden, a dispatch supervisor on his way to lunch, was a mile away Wednesday when the dispatchers started frantically calling for units to head to the Inland Regional Center.

He said he had trained for events like this, but the scene was still surreal. It was sensory overload.

The fire alarms were blaring. People were moaning. Others cried out for help. Bodies lay in a room with a Christmas tree and festive decorations.

Two minutes after he had arrived at the center, he had assembled a small team to go into the meeting room.

"It was unspeakable, the carnage that we were seeing, the number of people who were injured and, unfortunately, already dead, and the pure panic on the faces of those individuals that were still in need and needing to be safe," Madden told reporters Thursday.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/03/us/san-bernardino-shooting/

Structure of the lead:

Who- a dispatch supervisor

When- 2015/12/04

What- terrorist attack

Why- not given

Where-San Bernardino, California

How- not given

Keywords:
1.dispatch 調度
2.frantically 瘋狂地
3.blaring 刺耳地大聲鳴響
4.carnage 大屠殺