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Urgent search for suspects after gunfire hits California TV station

Bakersfield police are hunting a gunman after the second shooting at the same TV station in under seventy-two hours; the manhunt is ongoing.

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  1. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorPolice in Bakersfield are searching for a gunman who fired multiple shots at a TV station, the second incident at that same station in less than seventy-two hours.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorTo talk about how a manhunt works, we have Leopold Szymanski, inmate forty-seven eighteen, calling from a minimum-security prison in Connecticut.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMr. Szymanski, thanks for joining us.

  4. Leopold SzymanskiHappy to help, Vera. Purely as a librarian, I follow these things closely, and I show my laminated card to anyone who asks.

  5. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo what should police be doing right now to find a suspect who has now come back to the same building twice?

  6. Leopold SzymanskiPurely as a librarian, I'd say watch the parking lot across the street, because a man returning to a place always thinks the second visit is quieter.

  7. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThat's oddly specific.

  8. Leopold SzymanskiIt's in the reference section.

  9. Leopold SzymanskiPurely as a librarian, I also know the side door with the broken camera is always the one people say they never noticed.

  10. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI'm asking the same question again, because I want to know whether you are describing a book or a résumé. What are you in for?

  11. Leopold SzymanskiOverdue books. Purely as a librarian, a sentence that long runs concurrent with the other count, and that's all I can say about the camera.

  12. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe other count. Right.

  13. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorStill ahead, a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader flies across the pond and somehow turns up in an Eagles jersey. Whose colors win Monday?

  14. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMr. Szymanski, please return the library card to the guard. Rosa, I hear you have a case with a lot of suspects.

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