The fact that the suspect was shot and didn’t make it out of the building indicates the guns he grabbed were not “a pile of guns just left somewhere with no one around.”
Specifically, the article says the guns the suspect grabbed were laid out on a table in a location where officers were present conducting training. The article specifies he picked up the guns and pointed them at officers indicating there were Officers present at the location where he picked up the guns.
A man used a fire escape Monday to infiltrate a Chicago police facility while officers were undergoing a SWAT training exercise and grabbed at least two guns before he was shot and wounded by police, the chief said.He said that investigators believe the man grabbed at least two guns that were on a table during the training exercise and pointed them at officers.