Here is the pertinent transcript from the DPD radio recordings:
- Dispatcher Yes, 12:44 p.m.
- 9 ( Sawyer) The type of weapon looked like a 30-30 rifle or some type of Winchester.
- Dispatcher 9, it was a rifle?
- 9 A rifle, yes.
- Dispatcher 9, any clothing description?
- 9 About 30, 5'10", 165 pounds.
- Dispatcher Attention all squads, the suspect in the shooting at Elm and Houston is supposed to be an unknown white male, approximately 30, 165 pounds, slender build, armed with what is thought to be a 30-30 rifle, - repeat, unknown white male, approximately 30, 165 pounds, slender build. No further description at this time or information, 12:45 p.m.
- 15 (Captain C.E. Talbert) Could 9 determine whether man was supposed to have been still in the building or was he supposed to have left?
- Dispatcher I didn't know for sure and the witnesses didn't have the description, but we have got that building surrounded by now and we should know something before long.
- 9 (Inspector J.H. Sawyer) On this building, it's unknown whether he is still in the building or not known if he was there in the first place.
- 531 (Sergeant G.D. Henslee) Well, all the information we have receive, 9, indicates that it did come from about the 5th or 4th floor of that building.
Note: there is nothing there regarding a witness that "couldn't remember" clothing. So I really don't know what they were looking at during Sawyer's testimony. (Anyone who might know please feel free to share it here.)
"Pertinent transcript" indeed!
Mr. BELIN. What did you say then?
Mr. SAWYER. "The wanted person in this is a slender white male about 30, 5 feet 10, 165, carrying what looks to be a 30-30 or some type of Winchester."
Mr. BELIN. Then the statement is made from the home office, "It was a rifle?"
Mr. SAWYER. I answered, "Yes, a rifle."
Mr. BELIN. Then the reply to you, "Any clothing description?"
Mr. SAWYER. "Current witness can't remember that."Ergo, Mr Brennan--------who did give a clothing description--------cannot be the source of the suspect description Insp. Sawyer has just given out.
Thankfully, there is no mystery as to what the true source of the suspect description saw: