"In mid-September, El Paso Police Department officials said in a statement carried by local media that they had no independent confirmation of Oakley’s actions after reviewing surveillance footage from the scene of the shooting.
The police statement neither confirmed nor denied Oakley’s version of events.
“All we can say is that there were reports of possible multiple shooters and a possible shooter at the mall," the police statement reads. "That was based on initial erroneous reports amidst the chaos. It was later confirmed that there was only one shooter and there was no one in danger at the mall. We have no independent reports of anyone’s actions at the mall.”"
