Mr. Hubert. How much prior? Do you know?
Mr. Pierce. That would be difficult to say just exactly how much prior, but it was—to give an actual time on it, of course, when we went to the main floor, the first floor on the elevator prior to the shooting, in this corridor, that is a four-way corridor there. There is an information desk sits right in the intersection of the two corridors, and the several elevators is in the corridor that leads—that is the reason I say it takes a little describing because it was facing that corridor and that gate when you get off the elevator, and that was 9:30, probably 9:30.
Mr. Hubert. All right, now, what other way is it possible to go from the first floor of the municipal building into the police building?
Mr. Pierce. From the first floor to the police building, the only way from the first floor that you can get into the police and courts building is to leave the municipal building first floor, that is the only way you can get to it.
Mr. Hubert. And go where?
Mr. Pierce. And go either outside on the—only other way you can get to it is to go outside on either Main Street or Commerce Street and go down to the police and courts building and use one of their entrances, or take the service elevator down to the basement, which you have the model here, and walk across that garage area and the ramp area to the basement. Two ways, but no other way you can get there from the first floor.
Mr. Hubert. About—what about the fire escape stairs?
Mr. Pierce. No fire escape.
Mr. Hubert. Isn’t there a fire case where——
Mr. Pierce. The enter—staircase, you still can’t get there. It is impossible to get there, because that staircase is always locked from the municipal building. That stairway is inside the building proper. It is not an outside stairway like this.