A second bulletproof vest was delivered to the front door shortly after Brooks was shot, which was to be exchanged for nine more hostages, but no one was released. A female hostage was sent out to recover the second vest with her wrists tied behind her and harnessed with more speaker cord. As the door was opened and the woman was halfway down the path to retrieve the vest, Boyes took a shot at one of the gunmen, but the sniper's bullet was deflected by the glass door as it swung shut and it failed to hit the target.