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But there's some stuff that didn't make the cut - and tonight we revisit those images with narration from Jules Vasquez:

Jules Vasquez Reporting

When we first arrived at the scene around 8:00 - the police were just arriving and trying to bring the area under control by dispersing residents form the area - after a good many had already made a trip inside to witness the gruesome scene.

This stepfather got pushed back and police had to keep on doing that. Police had a small armory out at the crime scene yesterday but this stretcher wasn't needed.

And as the bodies were brought out in a sickening succession of blood soaked bags this view form the ground level of family members wanting one last touch increasingly angering the crowd.

And spurring George Street Boss Gerlad Shiny Tillett to come forward, across the line which cause done police man to grab his gun in the holster while another one pulled his gun out in front of an angry mob.

While police and friends reasoned with Shiney, the situation around was tense but on the street side, this Gaza-man with tears in his eyes listened to Officer Jemoth's explanation as he watched the bodies of his friends - and his wing man Ghost Meyers laid out on a stretcher, he wiped his face, as the fourth bloddy body was brought out, Tillett retreated

And the convoy of the dead sped off - against traffic while police kept its presence at the corner of Plues and Dean while other police rolled in guns drawn while police ran to secure the scene on Basra and South streets. On George Street they also pushed us back and held positions, while this was unfolding on Basra street

Voice of: Resident of the area
"If it was me and my child had gotten killed I would get a gun and murder a policeman and die along with my child. The police supposed to be the law and if it was my child I would murder a policeman and die with my child."

But the police were not intimidated - they kept rolling in all directions in this tight cluster of Plues, Dean and George streets while keeping their guns on cock.

As is well known by now - after those shots were fired on Basra Street at its junction with George Street - that's when all kinds of crazy reports went out that mayhem had been unleashed on the Southside.