Police response to active shooters

Alaina UrquhartCo-host of Morbid, autopsy technician and author of the Butcher novels

• 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

• 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 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