A portrait is constructed of the shooter. Then they move to the next camera and say the same thing. The shooter, now in custody, is shown again and again, perhaps getting into a squad car, perhaps wearing handcuffs. Maybe he scowls at his captors. Maybe he is bleeding.
Special reports continue.
More experts are interviewed, more friends and neighbors. In the hours that follow, the spotlight broadens. Politicians decry the cowardice of the act. Some call for tighter gun laws. Some call for more parental responsibility.