“I’d do it all over again if this happened tomorrow,” said Kent, who said about 40 officers responded to the scene from his department, surrounding departments, the State Police and federal agencies such as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
Okay, I can see hitting the Bat Signal for multiple reports of "Man with Rifle in Mall", but it looks like the only Feds NOT called were the National Park Service Rangers.
State Police also said in a statement that a man had called them to report that he was the person seen in the mall. Troopers and officers went to the area of the nearby Lahey Clinic hospital, where the man worked, and interviewed him, determining he was not a threat.
Yet despite all of the above, he managed to slip through their net and walk to work.
The Burlington Mall was used as the setting for the Kevin James comedy movie "Paul Blart: Mall Cop."
The Defense Rests.
