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That's the easiest way to explain it. >> how many shots the suspect fired at the officers? >> i don't have any idea. there are shell casings on both sides of west florissant. it's a number of shell casings at this point. >> you don't have a sense of how many guns were used? >> i would think that probably -- and again, please understand i don't have the benefit of some information i'm going to have later but there were probably six shooters on the other side of the street. from what i was told, we looked at some video which showed gunfire coming from a couple different flash points. muzzle flas...

Second to top row in the theater. she said that the shooter was on the same row as her on the opposite end of the row. and that about 20 minutes into the movie, apparently just stood up and started shooting. the scene of the movie was fairly quiet. they heard two pops. of course, were startled didn't know quite what that was and saw the muzzle flashes and that's when they realized what was happening. she hit the deck immediately. her friend started to exit the theater, and then emily got up and followed him out. they were able to get out safely, thank goodness. >> so lost in this is 21-year-ol...

You this went down? >> she said that she was sitting in the same row. they were second from the top row of the theater and that they heard a couple pops. weren't sure what it was. and then they started to notice muzzle flashes. that's when they knew something was happening. she immediately hit the floor and so didn't see a whole lot more after that. she and her friend made their way out and they did comment people were panicked to get out but were helping each other. it was not a mob scene. people just getting out as quickly as they could to get away from the shooter. >> it's hard to know how ...

That's according to st. louis county police chief jon belmar. no police officers returned fire. the wounded officers were rushed from the scene. today the chief called it an ambush and indicated it might have come from among the crowd of protesters. >> i would have to imagine that these protesters were among the shooters that shot at the police officers. my officers tell me that when this happened, when they heard the shots and when they heard the bullets zinging past, they saw muzzle flashes. but these were probably about 125 yards away. >> protesters maintained it came from a hill about 220 ...

These muzzle flashes were probably about 125 yards away. >> that's about 375 feet farther than the length of a football field. could the shots have come from that far away? our cnn law enforcement analyst, former assistant fbi director, tom fuentes, joins us from ferguson. you're there on the scene where these shots apparently came from. walk us through the scene and what distance we're actually talking about. >> wolf i'm standing at about the distance that the shots were fired from, the location on the street where they were fired at the top of the hill. and looking down the hill and actually...