True. And just to clarify some things on this topic that I'm reading (I'm too lazy to go back and do multi-quote):
From the SW: At 5:06 MPD received a call from the church. "The caller advised a femalesubject (later identified as the victim Terri Bevers) was at the location and was notbreathing and was deceased."
It then goes on to say, "As first responders arrived on scene they observed several exterior and internal doorswith extensive damage to them as well as broken glass throughout the inside of thechurch."
So that's the SW info. And IMO, it is referring to "first responders" without differentiating between the FD medics and the police. I think it it talking about them both.
Then the official press release says this, with some abbreviation by me: "...officers arrived at the location just after FD medics and the medics were attending to the unresponsive female as officers entered the church."
JMO but in reading those two documents together, what I glean from them is that officers were hot on the heels of the medics (medics may have seen their flashing lights behind them before they went in, who knows). Medics did get in there first but remember that the caller to 911 had already advised that the female subject was deceased. So when the medics were "attending to the unresponsive female", I believe they were likely just checking to see if there was a pulse. If the visible injuries were bad enough that the 911 call told them the person was already deceased, then there were probably no lifesaving measures going on. That's JMHO.
I can't say that I completely get all the discussion people are having about medics and officers and patient care versus safety. Although I will throw this out there - if the campers had not found the damage to doors yet and had only come upon MB's body, who knows what their mindset might have been? When you're seeing something that your brain tells you isn't possible, you can jump to all kinds of wrong conclusions. On a rainy night, with glass all around and a person with grave wounds to head and chest, in a church, maybe murder isn't the first thing you jump to. Maybe instead, you wonder if there was some kind of freak accident where she slipped and hit her head on a glass table.