Will James

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375 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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Embedded · We Keep Us Safe: The Sentinels · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

So he says he was not armed at CHOP, and if he was carrying anything, it was a pepper ball gun.

What are pepper balls?

So it's a paintball that's filled with caposin, and it's used for self-defense.

He says that's what we see him handing to James Madison in that video, not a real gun, a pepper ball gun.

And when I mention the Sentinels, Austin says he doesn't even recognize that name.

It's not a term he knew when he was at CHOP.

I pretty much stayed around James and Slate when I was interacting with CHOP security.

I just randomly went to the different, I call them outposts, but they're like guard stations, and made sure that they had water and they were staying hydrated and

It sounds like Austin was kind of at the fringes of chop security.

After this interview, I checked with some sources, and they said, yeah, that's true.

He was kind of a peripheral figure.

But it turns out, fringe figure or not, Austin had a front row seat to the shooting.

Austin says he's in his SUV, the one covered in graffiti, when he sees some teenagers driving off in the white Jeep that had been stolen minutes before.

So he tries to box them in with his SUV.

But they push past him in the Jeep and escape.

They drove off and I spent my time trying to find where they went.

Maybe 10 minutes pass.

Then I heard they were milling down inside a Cal Anderson field.

So Austin heads toward the play field.

And suddenly, the white Jeep zips past him.

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