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Investigators say mixed UTC/CST timestamps and missing GPS complicated reconstruction of officers' routes
Summary
Lieutenant Tom Kennedy testified that GPS exports and time‑zone displays (UTC vs. Central) and missing unit data complicated the investigation into officer routes; he said he did not change the files provided to him.
Lieutenant Tom Kennedy, the Conway Police investigator who compiled the internal file, told the review hearing that GPS data and timestamp displays complicated reconstructing officers' routes for the April 13 mass shooting response. Kennedy said he received GPS data on a thumb drive and opened it with Google Earth Pro; some exports displayed times in Central Standard Time and others in UTC. "I made no changes to this information received," he testified. "I got it on a thumb drive, I put it in my computer, and I opened the document." He said he could not explain why some outputs showed UTC and others Central time and that he did not convert or manually change timestamps. The…
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