What Alaina Urquhart has said about Police response to active shooters
3 quotes · 1 episode · Jun 8, 2026
Alaina Urquhart, Co-host of Morbid, autopsy technician and author of the Butcher novels, has been quoted on Police response to active shooters 3 times in 1 episode of Morbid, most recently on June 8, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Urquhart recounts that a dispatch error sending the first officer to the wrong McDonald's delayed response by several minutes.
“emergency services were delayed by anywhere between three and five minutes as the officer had to backtrack”
Morbid: The San Ysidro McDonald's Massacre (Jun 8, 2026) · Listen from 47:21
Urquhart criticizes the SWAT team's arrival roughly an hour into the attack.
“And for them to only get SWAT there like an hour late, that's, that I don't get”
Morbid: The San Ysidro McDonald's Massacre (Jun 8, 2026) · Listen from 1:12:23
Urquhart says the massacre changed police procedure for mass shootings, including communication, surveillance and weaponry.
“the event did go on to influence police procedure with regards to incidents of mass shootings and other acts of terrorism”
Morbid: The San Ysidro McDonald's Massacre (Jun 8, 2026) · Listen from 1:13:00
Episodes
The San Ysidro McDonald's MassacreMorbid · Jun 8, 2026 · 1 h 18 min
Morbid hosts Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley recount James Huberty's life and the 1984 San Ysidro McDonald's massacre that killed 21 people.
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