Alethea
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I can understand why LE thought he was likely in the perimeter. Given his property was torched would possibly indicate a suicide. There were so many hours before he resurfaced and they only knew of 3 cars and not the fourth. Killer had so much on his side. Sadly.
And with random men dead on the street and in the homes, it would take them some time to determine that the gun deaths were not self-inflicted. As time went on after midnight and there were no more shots or fires (until after 9AM), I think they reasonably thought the situation was contained and he was likely one of the deceased. That may have led to the hesitancy to issue an alert. IMO I think it would have had to been immediately (when the tweets went out) or you'd get the bureaucratic issues we saw here with the passage of time.