Brooklyn Park Police Chief sheds light on early moments of Hortman shooting by suspect Vance Boelter

The records also show how long it took to render aid to one of the victims, and how police initially responded to the incidents, shedding light on the early stages of what became the largest manhunt in Minnesota history.

In addition to dispatching drones, helicopters and law enforcement officers immediately, they also recognized in quick fashion there was a significant and deadly threat to state lawmakers. A manifesto was later uncovered that showed Boelter had allegedly targeted dozens of political figures beyond Hortman and Hoffman.

On Monday's Drivetime with Jason DeRusha, Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley called in to discuss the records and the early response from police. It was in Brooklyn Park where the Hortmans lived and were killed.

The new analysis also shines a light on the work done by Brooklyn Park police, who proactively went to perform a wellness check on Melissa Hortman after the shooting at the Hoffman home in Champlin.

They arrived at her house at 3:35 a.m. and actually saw her husband, Mark Hortman being shot at the door. Questions remained about whether or not officers reacted properly, were aggressive enough in that situation, and perhaps treated it more like an active shooter situation.

Bruley said this is a difficult thing to discuss, because it's still part of an active investigation.

"This is obviously a case that is being prosecuted, we're trying to not prosecute it out in the public, but we also understand that when information comes out like this, that people want answers," he said. "First of all, I want to just remind everybody that we are in the middle of an after action report where we say in the state, the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, Champlin Police Department, New Hope Police Department, are paying $429,000 to have professionals that are industry professionals from all over the nation do an after action review. From stem to stern on what went right, what went wrong, what technology, and how can we better in the future. And that is really the way it should be done on these national type incidents where we've learned from individuals that dig into this with the experience to be able to say what went right and what went wrong. And we are all for that."

Bruley says the narrative around "active shooter" isn't accurate, and clarified the situation police found themselves in.

"We we say active shooter, but that's not actually a legitimate," Bruley adds. "Term like that is a generic term that people use. What we train police officers in is act of killing, right? Because you can imagine if somebody had a knife in a shopping center running around stabbing people, we still want to respond in a certain way to stop the immediate harm in those actions. So the actual term that we train them is act of killing and in the act of killing training, one of the things that we train officers, just for context, is a wounded individual, A downed child in a school or a down person, a wounded individual, is the same criteria as an act of killing, meaning they're rescuable. We get them out and we try to save lives as we perform both missions."

Bruley also went into significant detail about the first officers to arrive on the scene at the Bruley home.

"First off, one officer was there, engaged the suspect who engaged in gunfire at somebody at the door," he explains. "The officer couldn't see anybody at the door. He could just see the suspect talking to somebody at the door. Shots went went into the door immediately. The officer engaged the suspect with gunfire, and the suspect immediately entered the home. And then the officer, for a short period of time, exchanged gunfire with the suspect. By this time, the second officer arrived and they had determined the shooting stopped. That was it. That's all the gunfire that occurred was in that instant."

Bruley then said the two officers approached the home.

"They immediately start approaching the house and realized that there's a downed person at the door, from the body worn camera and from the interviews, they believed it was Melissa," Bruley explains. "They have a conversation that she's down, she's hurt. Let's rescue her. So they move immediately move up, enter the house. They go into the house, they rescue that person and find out it's not a female. And by the way, they don't know who Melissa is, but they do know she's a female, and they get there and they rescue the male that is obviously critically injured. And they remove him back to a safe place and start CPR. There's no other information about where anybody is in that house. There's no other shooting. There's no other active killing indication."

Bruley said in the moment, officers need to balance tracking a suspect versus providing aid to victims.

"Once they got additional officers that arrived on scene, now they have to make the determination. Are we going to make entry in this house? But one thing about when we make entry, we go to shooting calls all the time, we just don't make entry because there's a shots fired. Our presence can actually incite somebody," he explains. "For example, what if Melissa was In they're being held hostage and now we just come bum-rushing in there and now her life is in jeopardy because of our actions? So we're always trying to balance how to use technology and what is the right step in this case. And appropriately the officers contained the house. There was no indication of movement, no yelling, no noise. And waited for additional resources to arrive. But that's how the events actually took place."

Bruley also goes on to call the two officers that initially responded "heroes," saying their actions helped prevent what could have been a far larger killing spree based on the information law enforcement gathered after the fact.

"One, if that's me as that officer, I do the exact same thing as those two officers did," said Bruley. "I think they're absolute heroes, and I think they absolutely did what I would have done if I was there. I would have done the exact same thing with the information that I was presented with. The second part is, I think you started to talk about it, and I think it's really, really key, and that is those officers don't interrupt him, and take that vehicle away from him. I would be horrified by how many lawmakers are dead today if I have to be really honest with you. Like, we have a tragedy unlike anything this country has seen, knowing what his motives were, what his intent was, what was in that vehicle for guns, ammunition, hit-list. That interaction, which is horrific."