Following an internal investigation, the LSU Police Department said officials are satisfied with the response to the incident in the Quad in February.LSUPD’s response time came under scrutiny from students and parents after architecture junior Storm Erie drove a car into the Quad and unloaded an assortment of items before leaving the area with his dog.Following the incident, many students felt the police should have responded more quickly to a potentially dangerous situation.Telephone and radio recordings indicate police reached the Quad four minutes and 51 seconds after the first report.The first indication police had of the incident came when an unidentified witness called police saying “a car just drove into the Quad and almost hit a couple people.”The police operator then continually received calls reporting the incident.Some calls had a sense of urgency saying, “It looks like it could be a dangerous situation,” while other witnesses laughingly reporting Erie unloading a gas can.”You have people snickering about it,” LSUPD Spokesman Sgt. Blake Tabor said. “The important thing to note here is that it’s kind of alluding to the supporting details that it wasn’t a dangerous situation.”The operator commanded officers to the scene at three minutes and 37 seconds after receiving the first call.The time lapse was a result of the of the influx of calls coming in about the incident, Tabor said.About 45 calls were received during the incident, he said.Radio recordings indicate police had reached the Quad four minutes and 51 seconds after receiving the first call.Joe Rhodes, University instructor and doctoral student, made his second call to police at five minutes and 25 seconds, claiming no police were near as Erie left the Quad. Tabor said there was some contention about the exact time the police reached the Quad because witnesses did not notice police entering the Quad.The officers arrived too late to see Erie enter the Art and Design Building, Tabor said. Rhodes called again at six minutes and 52 seconds and asked if the police wanted him to clear the building. The police dispatcher told him yes.The dispatcher continued to receive calls even after officers had arrived.”There was never any indication that there was any gas poured on the car,” Tabor said. “One of the officers who responded was in our K-9 bomb detection division. There was no indication of any incendiary devices anywhere on the vehicle.”The first police at the scene remained at the vehicle until they were informed about Erie’s location in the Art and Design Building, Tabor said. “At this point we don’t have any information that this is a dangerous situation except that there is a gas can on the vehicle,” Tabor said. At nine minutes and 10 seconds from the first call, Rhodes informed police of the student’s location in the Art and Design Building, where Erie remained until police found him about 17 minutes after the first call.”Worst-case scenario: This is when he is custody,” Tabor said. “But radio traffic leads me to believe he had been in custody several seconds before that.”It’s likely no charges will likely be filed, Tabor said.”Why he did it, we don’t know,” Tabor said. “It’s one of those things we may never be able to answer.”Erie did not return e-mails requesting an interview.—————Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at [email protected]