Our presence here is to be low-key, especially inside the funeral home. This is not about us. This is not a police operation. It's a funeral for a fallen soldier.

The officer approached the residence and was met by an armed gunman. The officer fired on him and struck that man.

We've tried to run down as many people as we can. We've processed the scene as we would if it were a homicide, so that if it does turn out that it was a homicide ... we've not lost anything.

We're not looking at anything connected. We're not looking at gang problems. We're not looking at retaliation issues. We're looking at all separate incidents.

They let us borrow it for a while, and now they're getting to take it back home.

We should like to hear from the soldier-statesman his assessment of the operation, ... Do we see light at the end of the tunnel, and what needs to be done to bring this operation to a close?