High school shatter by gunfire. How people came going gratitude for a situation that could heave been much worse. Good evening, we ten to think that Something Like this cant happen here and that all changed today. A teenager opened fire inside the Madison Junior Senior High School cafeteria. The teenager was 14yearold james Austin Hancock. Tonight deputies are hunting for answers as we are as well, trying to under while a young man would do Something Like this. When that call came in, the eighth graders were eating lunch. Its not clear whether hancocks victims were targeted. Either way there was chaos in the school. There was screaming and i looked over and ran in and the library was kind of quiet. You cant hear anything from outside. So were just trying to hide, and she wrapped her keys and put it in the door, and we went in. And thats it. It was just chaos. I heard three loud sounds. Like, banging or something. And i said it was gunfire, and she didnt tell me anything, so i didnt think it was gunfire. We didnt know what to think. We were just all like, whats going on . The teacher locked up in the classroom and people running everywhere, and we were like, our teacher just be safe. Didnt know what was going on, made us get in the back room. Hancock is facing a laundry list of charges, including two counts of attempt murder. Deputies say theyre trying to figure out where he got the gun he used, and how he got it into the school. A total of four people were wounded, Cameron Smith and Cooper Caffery were the ones shot. One of them in the thigh and the back, the other in the arm. Brad murray and katherine doucett were injured, hit by theyre all expected to make a complete recover. Parents were scared. But we start with Angela Ingram from heroes from todays incident. Reporter the Butler County sheriffs is tell can us that federal state, local, and Law Enforcement agencies all pulled together to come to this school, rushing to that school to make sure that the children were okay and get the wounded out of the school, also to make sure they took care of that active shooter situation. He says they have been doing active Shooter Training for years, but you still never expect it to happen where you live. Imagine being in a cafeteria, when youre growing up and you were in school, and youre eating lunch, and then all of a sudden theres an active shooter. Reporter the nightmare that usually happen to someone else, somewhere else, hit home this morning. Terrified parents lined up to get their kids from Madison Junior Senior High School, praying their children were okay. The weapon came from. But it does appear that he had this weapon for the first part of the morning in the school. Reporter investigators say an eighth Grade Student pulled the trigger, james Austin Hancock, allegedly shot two of his classmates, two more were hurt by shrapnel or running from the shooting. The sheriff says hancock was caught within ten or 15 minutes. The first thing you want to do is contain your suspect. So we did that. And then from there we branched out to search for him and dog was able to track him and take him into custody. The shooting was over and the shooter had left the school so we were we had an opportunity to attend to those that were shot. In an active shooter still in the school, you actually got to go in and you got do work on stopping the active shooter. Reporter at this point the sheriff has not released a opened fire on his classmates, and and he says they have a pretty good idea whose firearm this was but at this point theyre not releasing that. This is an ongoing investigation. Reporting live. Local 12 news. Rob, back to you. Thats what everybody wants to know, why. Thank you very much. Middletown showed how close of a community it is. There were several vigils held, including one at middletown high school. Hundreds of people were there, heads bowed, hands held, leaning on their faith to get them through, and some had no connection to the school. They were just there to comfort anyone who needed it. This just is something that touched me because ive lost a child. Ive lost a child who was 30 years old but still im just so thankful today that none of these parents had to face that. Cant do this on your own. Its hard. Its hard to go through something this scary. A day like any other day, and just left the cav tiera. Been on lunch supervision and heard the gunshots, and then immediately some kids ran into our ran into the gym, said theres a kid with a gun, and we immediately grabbed our class and took them to safety, and our training kicked in that our administrators prepared us for. Its that training that has American Parents breathing heavy sighs of relief. Angnet is at the high school. Reporter that cafeteria where this all unfolded earlier today is right behind me, right behind my left shoulder. The students here have practiced many times what thigh should do if theres ever a shooting. Today they followed that training much to the relief of their parents. A sea of concerned parents made their way to Madison Junior Senior High School to pick up children after shots were fired in the cafeteria. Trembling, crying, praying, praying. Paulleta will sons grandson heard the gunshot. I was in library and we had too go into a different room so were safe and everybody was freaking out. I was sitting on my phone and then i heard sounds like somebody dropped a lot of binders. The entire school went on lockdown. People started walking back to the back closet, and then we heard the announcements come on, full lockdown so we just sat in the closet for however long. Just sit there and listening the Library Teacher was reading. Did you lock the door . Yeah, we locked all the doors. The students finally received the allclear. Parents breathed a sigh of relief once they were able to hug their children. We pray over the kids, over the teachers, over the staff, the students, and i just thank god that nothing worse than thank god for that. Reporter the students with whom we spoke said they were very surprised to hear that Austin Hancock was the person charged in this shooting theyve said that he was a wrestler, actually friends with one of the kids that was shot in the cafeteria, and to their knowledge, he had not been in trouble. Reporting live from madison township, local 12 news. Thank you. No school at madison tomorrow, meaning students will have a lot of time to collect their thoughts and you can imagine hour hard its going to be for them to move on but a child psychologist that we talked to today said that is exactly what has to happen. The biggest thing i found is just telling them that it is possible to cope with your feelings and change your feelings and change your thoughts. I think kid often think that the emotions control them, so often times just you tell them, you can control those. I do it every day, and try to give examples from your own life, and then help them feel something i can work on. She says getting back to a routine is key. She also says reminding children that there are adults in school to keep them safe can be very beneficial, doing things as a anxiety. School is cancel el tomorrow but teachers and staff will report to school to start planning and preparing for students to return to class. Well continue to work through the night on getting more information on what happened today, what led to it and why there was a shooting. Well bring you what we fine on good morning cincinnati at 4 25. While all that was happening at madison, some other schools around that area were in a soft lockdown mode, including middletown high school. It was during that soft lockdown that School Officials were tipped off about a student there with a gun. They found the gun inside a male students backpack. They didnt say if it was loaded but the student was arrested and we expect to learn more tomorrow about what kind of charges he is facing. Made quick work of a threat this morning. A group of in deer a Madeira School students told officials about a threat on social media. Nothing actually happened and school went on as normal. No word on discipline for the student. After three beautiful days, rain moves in tomorrow. Whether the storms will affect your morning commute. Looks like its not going to effect our morning commute, but if youre headed out for a late lunch or evening commute, well seal the rain come through. Today was just beautiful afternoon. We topped out at 56 degrees. T. Degrees before our average which is 47, and well start match above average as well. Right now were still in low to mid40s in cincinnati and drop into the upper 40s briefly tomorrow morning before we are back into the 40s and the 50s for the afternoon. Radar i dry. Well stay fairly clear overnight but by tomorrow morning i expect to build in those clouds as early as 4 00 or 5 00, well see partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies, temperatures around 39 at 5 00, 40 at 7 00, and 43 at 9 00. No rain here. A lot of the rain will hold off until the afternoon but we me a sigh isolate or scattered showers move in west of cincinnati. Coming up well track that for you hours by hour when the rain and storms arrive, that would expect from the storms, and also tracking the back side of this system. So well talk about how much snow to expect tomorrow night and wednesday morning. Still to come, a local man who some care to Hannibal Lecter could be walking free. A federal judge makes a andd [inaudible] a desperate plea from a Wyoming High School graduate who was detained in north korea after he confessed to his crimes. Otto warm bee er was with a tour group the officials said he was part of a conspiracy. He admitted to trying to steal a political banner from the hotel where he was staying. I have been very impressed by the korean governments humanitarian treatment of severe and of their very fair and square legal procedures in the dpr korea. Warm bee er said he was influenced by the u. S. Government, by a group he was trying to join in college and by a member of a wyoming, ohio church to try to take the banner. The confession was supposedly volunteer tear but other americans held the past have row announced their statements after being freed. No word on potential release. The man accused of killing a morning. Daniel schooler is charged with murder after police say he shot his brother, the reverend william schooler. Yesterday. Jeffrey has been friends with the pastor for years. Jeffrey spent saturday night with them, watching hobble basketball. His passing in such a tragic it was really a tremendous contrast in terms of the high note we were on. Schooler has been in trouble with the law before. He was convicted of felonious assault with a Deadly Weapon in 2001 and got five years probation for that. The following year he was convicted of felonious assault again, that got him a twoyear prison sentence. A crazy story. A plan who killed his friend and then ate part of his brain could be getting out of prison. David allen chapin shot his roommate back in 1978. This happened in claremont county. After an argument over religion. He killed liming, ate a portion of his brain and then did this. He put his friends body in the trunk of his vehicle, drove the vehicle to raymond and walters college where he told a professor he had body available for dissection. Chapins attorney said the braineating was part of some sort of death pact between the two. At the beginning of february but the board couldnt come to a decision and now its in the hands of the Central Office board review. They could have a decision very soon. A federal judge sides with apple, saying the company does not have to unlock an iphone for the feds. This is a drug case in brooklyn. The feds got a search warrant for the suspects iphone but it was locked by a pass code. They wanted apple to bypass the code but the judge denied it. It should be noted that the ruling has no effect on the San Bernardino case. Massive irirs data breech is bigger than first thought. Last mail the irs reported cyber criminals accessed 14,000 taxpayer accounts. And in august that number grew to 334,000. Now its 724,000 victims. Experts believe the culprits are irs approved tax preparers who fail to provide Adequate Security for customers. Were often our own worst enemies because there are times passwords, proper security. The irs says its notifying those hacked by mail as well as offering free Identity Protection for a year. Hackers accessed personal information using the agencys get transcripts program which allows you to check your tax history online. Its been suspended since may of 2015. The irs is working to restore it with better security. Its a final push before super tuesday, the biggest day yet in the president ial race. Voters in a dozen states hold primaries or caucuses tomorrow. G. O. P. Frontrunner donald trump spend the day fending off attacks from other candidates. Reporter donald trump came under heavy fire monday for failing to disavow an endorsement from former Klu Klux Klan leader david duke during a sunday talk show. Protesters from the group, black lives matter, interrupted his rally in virginia. All lives matter. Candidates from both sides of the aisle. There is no place for bigotry, prejudice, hatred, david duke, or the Klu Klux Klan, in the republican party. Weve got to Pay Attention to what is said because everybody else in the world pays attention. Senator Bernie Sanders fired at trump on twitter, calling him a hate monger who refuses to condemn the kkk. Cbs news political director John Dickerson says the g. O. P. Establish. Is having difficulty getting a handle on trump. Hard to tell whether theyre more up settled about being tainted by trump or the fact theres not much they can do to stop him from getting the nomination. Please come out and vote. There are a dozen contests on super tuesday. Texas senator ted cruz is counting on his home state to give him a badly needed boost. Texas is the biggest prize. Republicans are competing for more than 150 delegates, while more than 200 up for grabs on the democratic side. Voters are concerned about jobs and the economy. The middle class, and we always take the hardest. No one is expected to clinch on tuesday but if the polls are accurate, clinton and trump could pick up enough delegates to make them unstoppable. Cbs news, dallas. Tomorrow voters willing choose nearly half the required number of delegates needed for the republican nomination, and more than a third of the delegates needed for the democratic no neighbors, polls close at 7 00. Cbs news will have a special report at 10 00 and local 12 news live at 11 00 will follow with complete coverage of results as they come in. Speaking of changes, tomorrow is a big weather change day. It is. Were going to track rain and the snow comes after but how much moisture is left over before it entirely moves out is up in the air so doesnt look like well see a whole lot of snow, and still enjoying outdoor activity. A nice weekend, nice day. And wearing shorts, crazy, end of february and were in shorts. Well continue to see above normal temperatures but youll need the ripe gear. Wont be iraning when you leave tomorrow morning, but we are going to see rain arrive for the afternoon and evening. So youll probably needed on the ride home. Were going to see temperatures start off in the upper 30s and n cincinnati, close to 40, and may even see a little sunshine, especially earl on in the morning, by he time we hit 10 00 or 11 00 well see temperatures in the 40s and 50s, and chances of showers west of cincinnati. During the late morning hours. Its in the afternoon, 1 00, 2 00, 3 00, 4 00, well track heavy rain, thunderstorms imbedded with the rain as well, and some of those thunderstorms could pack a punch of strong winds. I wont rule out a couple of severe thunderstorm warnings tomorrow but i dont expect widespread strong to severe event or two tomorrow afternoon or evening. Here in the local 12 viewing area. Weather camera at downtown cincinnati, we are Crystal Clear right now. Temperatures in the 40s. Were 44 at the airport, lower 40s for hamilton, lebanon, york 45. Lower 40s for maysville, and were in the 40s but soon in the upper 30s for places like wilmington, wind speeds right now, very quiet. Tomorrow evening, especially, and wednesday morning, is when well see the winds pick up and we can say sustained winds 20 to 25 milesperhour. And within the thunderstorms tomorrow, even some gustier downpours we could see gusts 30, 45, even higher than that. But were dry right now and stay dry overnight. So need to worry about the rain wakingup up. If it didnt last night with the windy conditions but well stay dry. High pressure in control of the region. An area of low pressure developing off to the west, were with is this evening and thats going to continue to travel eastward. That brings us the rain first and then once the colder air comes in will bring us a chance for snow remember attorney tomorrow morning, clear skies, more clouds by 8 00 and a little sunshine to start tomorrow morning. By 11 00, later in the morning, well start to see a little bit of shower activity to the west of cincinnati. Heres noon, and cincinnati still dry. Areas east still dry. One 1 00, 2 00, 3 00 in the afternoon with the rain moving in, and then that spreads east throughout the afternoon and early evening. Theres 5 00 p. M. For the drive home. Were looking at hit or miss showers, maybe even a few rumbles of thunder as the cold front pushes through tomorrow evening, and then with the colder air wrapping around well see a little snow shower activity but this doesnt bring in a whole lot and i dont think were going to have many issues so this darker green shade is the risk, very low risk for Severe Weather but we are looking at heavy around, gusty and strong winds on the backside of this. Tonight we fell down to 39 degrees in cincinnati. 51 by noon tomorrow, and 53 or 5 54 for a high. And numbers drop off when the rain sets in. Colder on wednesday, morning flurry activity and then chance for rain and snow thursday and saturday but sunday is looking 60s for monday afteternoooo donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security, we need more than lip service. 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