**EXCLUSIVE: Why Was a High-Profile ‘Homeless Crisis’ Reporter at the San Diego Shooting Scene Before Police? Timeline Raises Eyebrows**

EXCLUSIVE: Why Was a High-Profile ‘Homeless Crisis’ Reporter at the San Diego Shooting Scene Before Police? Timeline Raises Eyebrows

San Diego, CA — In the chaotic aftermath of Saturday’s mass shooting at a downtown San Diego transit hub that left 3 dead and 5 wounded, one detail is being openly questioned by police insiders and gun rights advocates alike: Who called the press before the police arrived?

Cell phone geolocation data and bodycam timestamps reviewed by this outlet show that Olivia Vance, a known investigative reporter for a local affiliate and co-author of a controversial, grant-funded series titled “The Homeless Crisis: A War on the Working Class,” was live-streaming from the scene eight minutes before the first police cruiser arrived.

Vance’s footage—which went viral before it was deleted—showed her narrating the scene from a rooftop parking structure, using phrases like “rounds being discharged” even as witnesses reported the shooter was still at large. In the background, her audio captures a male voice saying, “Let them film, it’s useful.”

Critics are asking: Useful to whom?

A senior source inside the San Diego Sheriff’s Department—speaking on condition of anonymity—told us, “We have zero record of any tip or call logged from Vance’s phone during the incident. But she was there, parked, with a ring light on. That’s not a coincidence. That’s a fix.”

In the week leading up to the shooting, Vance had published a deep-dive claiming “off-duty police and private security are flooding our city with unregulated weapons,” a story that drew sharp condemnation from the city’s police union. Days later, the shooter—a homeless, mentally ill man who had been discharged from a mental health facility two hours earlier—opened fire.

**Now the question everyone is too afraid to