started his shooting spree though the gunfire had stopped people were still hiding when police arrived nobody was sure if the gunman was actually gone or not police officers surrounded the area with guns drawn allowing paramedics safe access to the scene so they could treat the wounded the most seriously injured were airlifted to the royal hobart hospital others were taken by ambulance and the less severe were treated on the scene a couple of officers who were on their way to port arthur happened to see the fire outside of the seascape and approach the building martin began firing at the officers forcing them to dive into a ditch to take cover any time they tried to leave the ditch he shot at them leaving them stuck in the ditch for hours calls came into officers at port arthur that the perpetrator had barricaded himself in the seascape cottage and many officers left the area to assist in the situation there at about NUMBER_TOKENpm a team from the special operations group were able to pull the officers from the ditch using the cover of darkness and bulletproof shields they didn't provide cover fire because they didn't know if anyone else was in the building with martin a negotiator terry mccarthy arrived on the scene and got martin on the phone when martin answered he cheerfully said hello terry was initially taken back by the lack of seriousness in the man's voice the negotiator asked if he was speaking to martin but the gunman corrected him and said he was jaime terry asked quote unquote jamie how he was doing to which the man responded quote oh couldn't be better just like on a hawaiian holiday end quote terry asked him to clarify what he meant by that but martin said he didn't really know even though terry was an experienced senior negotiator he was at a loss for what to do with martin the man seemed to have no real reason for what he had done and he had no demands after receiving reports that witnesses had seen martin abduct a man at a gas station and not being able to find david and sally martin who owned the seascape police began operating under the assumption that there were hostages inside still without any demands the negotiator continued talking to martin for hours he repeatedly requested that the police back away from the building and asked that a sniper be moved from his position authorities were unsure how he was able to see in the darkness and thought he might have had some sort of night vision device but none was ever found on the scene martin never brought up the attack on port arthur and when terry mentioned it martin acted as if he didn't know anything about it he asked if anyone had been hurt and the negotiator told him there were several injuries then martin asked quote they weren't killed end quote like he was disappointed by the news of only injuries terry said he didn't have all the details making sure not to confirm any deaths when terry finally asked him to put down his weapon and come out martin finally had a demand he wanted a helicopter he told the negotiator that he could buy a helicopter he became agitated and begin saying that he had enough money to buy a
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN martin began firing at the officers forcing them to dive into a ditch to take cover any time they tried to leave the ditch he shot at them leaving them stuck in the ditch for hours calls came into officers at port arthur that the perpetrator had barricaded himself in the seascape cottage and many officers left the area to assist in the situation there at about NUMBER_TOKENpm a team from the special operations group were able to pull the officers from the ditch using the cover of darkness and bulletproof shields they didn't provide cover fire because they didn't know if anyone else was in the building with martin a negotiator terry mccarthy arrived on the scene and got martin on the phone when martin answered he cheerfully said hello terry was initially taken back by the lack of seriousness in the man's voice the negotiator asked if he was speaking to martin but the gunman corrected him and said he was jaime terry asked quote unquote jamie how he was doing to which the man responded quote oh couldn't be better just like on a hawaiian holiday end quote terry asked him to clarify what he meant by that but martin said he didn't really know even though terry was an experienced senior negotiator he was END_SPONSOR_TOKEN