The fact is the gun that was the murder weapon was the gun she hid. It was bagged by police and tagged into evidence. There is a chain of custody. It was the only gun recovered.

He has not been charged, but is being detained and is still being interviewed by police. Like any other murder case, this will be investigated thoroughly and with absolutely no speculation.

We have a situation ... with the police facing attempted murder and police facing violence which is on a scale that we haven't seen for many years,

There were a lot of things he could say. "Son of a bitch!" would have been a good one. Or he could say, "Welcome to civilization!" He could have said, "Laugh this one off!" He might have said, "Fetch!" But he didn’t, because if he had said any of those things then he’d have known that what he had just done was murder.

Reasons why Harper's murder remains a mystery include the gang element involved in this case does not cooperate with police as a matter of rule. Harper was not well liked, (and) some felt Harper had it coming due to his violent past.

There was police cars everywhere, detectives cars everywhere, there was crime scene tape around this. And for somebody to do this to her, it just an outrage, really.