Weve seen police for the last hour or so tweeting some of the injured. There you see one being wheeled away on a stretcher, evacuating from the school up until moments ago, parents within text contact with their children. This high school has ten buildings, several thousand students, according to michael katz, one of the students we spoke with, the shooting went on for about four to six minutes, too many shots to count. He said in several locations of the school there you see the students running out of the school. Theyve been running out in periodic bursts. This is still being described as an active shooting situation. Weve seen pictures of one person being taken into custody. We dont know yet whether that was the shooter. The police are still treating this as an active situation. So much concern there in south florida right now. Tom llamas, you reported from there for many years and youve seen a massive response over this last hour. Reporter yeah, i was talking to a Law Enforcement source who told me the Broward Sheriffs Department which is one of the leads in this situation has trained for these types of situations with both the Miami Police Department and other agencies throughout south florida. This is a picture that we saw earlier. This seems to be a young person in handcuffs. Its a little far for us to see the exact age. One of the theories they were working at the time and it stands to reason was that the shooter possibly was a young person. Were not sure if it was a student or someone who went to another school, but that was one of the things they were following immediately because they werent sure who the shooter was. Again, part of the mixup and part of the confusion here because it has been a long time since weve gotten word from any Police Agency about whats going on is that there were so many students at both of these schools. Stoneman douglas, 3,000 kids and the nearby west glades middle park, 1500. They have their own Police Department but its a county Police Department and the neighboring Coral Springs has a larger Police Department that ran over there. You can see a student right there just overcome with brief having to live through this, going to High School One day in the middle of the week and dealing with possibly up to 20 students and or faculty injured in the shooting. We saw an instance response from police throughout the area. We also learned from some of the students inside that the students were able to react quickly, students and teachers both able to react quickly. So many schools have now trained for this kind of incident. Everybody taught to get down, get out if you can. Get down if you must, barricade yourself inside. According to one of the students that we spoke with earlier, it sounded like one shooter but could not be sure of that and we have not heard any reports of more than that right now. Weve just been joined at the desk by ray kelly, former chief of the new York City Police. We have been talking about the training. This is drilled through every Law Enforcement agency in the country. Exactly, george. Unfortunately its the reality now that Police Departments have to practice this and they do, indeed, practice extensively for it. Looks to me like the appropriate response, as was said before, multiple Police Agencies involved. They now practice that coordination. Its very important that theyre all talking the same language all on the same radio frequency, that sort of thing. Ray, our affiliate, wplg in south florida is now reporting that the shooter is in custody. We have not confirmed that ourselves but that is being reported in south florida by wplg. And ray, that would explain why were not seeing a lot of hectic activity. Right. Things look fairly calm. Obviously if he were not in custody there would be a lot of concern about his ability to shoot out a window and shoot from a great distance. It looks like things are under control and obviously thats good news. Again, i think the training and the practice that Police Departments do paid off in this situation. This, by all accounts, is the 12th School Shooting that weve had so far this year. Thats incredible. Steve gomez, former fbi special agent also joining us now. As we said, wplg, our affiliate in south florida, is reporting that the shooter is in custody. Walk us through the next steps that fbi and Law Enforcement on the scene would take. If that is one of the suspects and theyre clearly doing a fast investigation on that individual because theyre going to try to figure out does he have associates and is that the only shooter that was involved. Interviewing all of the students and faculty who may have heard and seen what occurred, theyre going to try to figure out was it one shooter, more than one. And then they have to figure out if there are others out there and that could expand the investigation. Everything has to be done as fast as possible in the event theres still a suspect out there. Brad garrett, again, if this report from wplg is true that the shooter is in custody, relatively unusual ending to a shooting incident like this. It is, george, because typically they shoot themselves or they make the cops shoot them. So is this a situation where the police got to him before he could do one or the other . That remains to be seen. It really goes partly to what his motivation was in committing this shooting. Thats what i was going to ask you about. The question is was it something targeted against a specific student or was it just sort of an outburst of anger, rage. It goes both ways. Typically when you have a small number of people shot, its usually personal. Its usually directed at a ache, et cetera. When you have more mass casualties where Somebody Just walked into a room and starts gunning people down, which sounds like what you have here, this is sort of more global rage toward the school. Brad, the profile is something that we see time and time again, young men generally isolated, harboring some kind of sometimes Mental Illness but a lot of rage and they just burst. Well, its a buildup. Its not like im going to decide tomorrow to do a School Shooting. Im going to decide for several months im going to do a School Shooting. As it goes through, he feels anger, rage, powerless. So what do you do if all those things are going on . You seek revenge and you gain power. Whats the ultimate power . Killing people. Brad, why boys, not girls . Because boys tend to be more aggressive. Its just her education ty, his. I will tell you that women are becoming more aggressive as far as other shootings. Homicide rates a little bit are up in reference to women. Women participating in Violent Crimes historically that were exclusively men, theyre now operating. To your question, i really think its just how men demonstrate and get this is how they deal with their anger and rage versus a girl may send some awful texts to people and make them feel bad. Pierre thomas, weve seen training across the country and training inside schools, training of Law Enforcement. Weve seen a number of shootings go up every single month. We have, george. One of the things, if they have the suspect in custody, they will do an extensive background check immediately. One of the things they would want to figure out is does this person have any ties to terrorism. Ive been on the phone with multiple sources. No one is pointing at that at all. Theyre working on the assumption that this is someone affiliated with the school, someone young is one theory im being told onof theyre seeing over and over in these cases as brad as talked about is that young people, typically male, disgruntled with access weapons. Weve talked about this before, george, and the fact that there are already 300 million guns sold in this country. So this iss a vexing issue, a chronic problem we want to go back to our affiliate on the scene talking to some of the parents of the ud the bus yet. She sent me a picture and shes okay. Did you get wind of this before you heard from her . I was actually on a call with work and my phone was blowing up from my wife. I got off, called her back and i saw the Text Messages so i parked at the elementary school. My wife is at the elementary school. Theyre on lockdown, code red. She was in a teacher conferee and there in there. Did she hear anything, see anything . Did she just g shoved in a som saw something but im not going to say anything about th how mu relief was it . It was a little emotional in the beginning. It was a good set of emotions running through my head because you dont know what to expect as youre walking up here. I was comforting a mother over here who has four sons here and she heard from three of them and she hadnt heard from the fourth one. Sounds like hes okay. Your daughter is telling you theyre taking her where . The mayor yrriott. I was going to head over that way but she told me to meet her at the marriott. Hearing from a relieved parent right there. So many parents so desperate to be in touch with their students who were inside that school to know they were safe. They use their phones, they text. Martha raddatz, youre saying the students should not tweet . I dont think its a good idea at all to tweet, especially if they still had an active shooter in that school or they didnt know what was happening and considering they were still on lockdown when they were tweeting, its not a good idea. Anybody can read those tweets. The shooter may have been reading the tweets. Martha, weve seen that in the past with the orlando shooting now more than a year and a half ago. We know the shooter was following the coverage. Exactly, following the coverage, listening for the sounds from the classrooms. It is a very dangerous thing to do. I know young people are on social media all the time. Were all on social media all the time but you shouldnt give anybody any information. Certainly if youre in a place where you feel safe and you want to text your parents and tell them that and they can pass that on to the police force but putting Something Like that out on social media until this is over and until we know and were watching scenes of the students coming out. Look at those students, george. They all know what to do. They either put up their hands in the air, they touch one another. They follow each other out. This is something i would say every one of those students has seen before in their lifetime over and over again. Even thoh youre trained, you have to put all those lessons to bear. There had been some kind of a drill earlier in the day. Tom llamas, youve been in touch with sources down in florida . Yeah. Promising news and very sad news. First the promising news. Wplg, our affiliate in miami, is reporting that the gunman has been arrested. The aerial shot that we had of the person in the burgundy shot was indeed the gunman. This is preliminary in the investigation but this is what our local affiliate is being told. That being said, several students from the school are now tweeting that theyre being led out of the school, that they are okay. That being said, senator bill nelson has reportedly said there are many deaths in this case, many fatalities. Thats coming from florida senator bill nelson right now. Weve heard from other police that one person confirmed dead from an eye witness on the scene. At least two others dedad and w know up to 20 injured. There are local media reports that we are working to confirm that that person you saw in custody there who looks to be a young person was a student possibly at one of the two schools that are next to each other. If that were to be the case, that would stand to reason why it would be so difficult for police to find this kid so quickly. Like we said, possibly 4500 students. The broward sheriff is confirming that the shooter is in custody. We believe thats the shooter in the burgundy shirt, so this is no longer an active shooter situation in south florida, but tom llamas, it is a mass casualty event. It is a serious one. Yeah, from the sources that weve heard and weve confirmed this with three different sources, there are at least 20 injuries, at least 20 people hurt. From senator bill nelson we know there are, quote, many deaths, many fatalities. He was briefed by the superintendent of the Broward County schools. Thats a horrible piece of news right there, especially for so many parents that are home and were told dont call 911 because the lines were so jammed because so many parents were concerned about their kids like any parent would be. They were told to stay there and wait for their child to leave the school. Youre a parent, im a parent. That would be impossible to do. Ray kelly, former new York City Police chief, the shooter now in custody. We see that picture right there now. The police have to try to figure out why. Yeah. I would bet theres an element of bullying involved here. Weve seen it in so many cases. Someo they think about it, plan it for months and they act out. We dont know for sure but im pretty sure theres an element of that here. Right. Brad garrett, weve seen this also from School Shootings that have been thwarted, an element of planning, as you say, building up resentment for weeks, maybe months, putting the plan together and one day something snaps. Something snaps, but heres what happened, george. He has told kids maybe not that he was going to commit a mass shooting at school, but his anger, rage, darkness, maybe focus on particular students or groups within the school are going to be out there. These are teenagers. They talk through social media, text each other. Were going to have to see. Thats all going to break down at some point as to what exactly did this kid say to others before the shooting occurred. As you and i talked a few minutes ago, whats his access to weapons . How did he get the weapon or weapons that he had today . Its always the question in every one of these its usually the answer, theyre readily available at home. And weve also seen there have been so many loop that so many people that shouldnt have guns are able to buy them. It does appear, now that its no longer an active shooter situation, that the shooter did act alone. Before we go back to you, brad, we believe school dist lets listen in to wplg. Superintendent, i know this has to be just a horrible day, a nightmare for everybody. Tell me what you know at this point. First, we cant do anything other than put our prayers out for the families, the students in the school and this community. Its a heartbreaking tragedy. What we know at this point is that every single Law Enforcement entity in Broward County is on the scene including the fbi. There are fatalities involved. We cant confirm the number at this point. I am in communication with sheriff scott israel. Im going to meet with him now. Ive been in communication with the governor. Everyone is providing the full support that they can. There are cnot confirmed report but we believe that the shooter has been apprehended and were trying to work through the details at this point. The scenario were hearing is this former student entered the freshman building. Is that your understanding . I dont know the details of where the student entered but we do know that it occurred during dismissal time. And yes, it potentially is some former student. I dont have a name yet. I cant release any information to you. That individual we believe is in custody. We hear a high number of casualties. Do you know just how many people may have died . I cant confirm the number at this point but there are fatalities can you tell us at least how many transports, do you know, maybe a dozen . I dont know the number thats been transported at this point. Again, there are numerous fatalities. Its a horrific situation. Its a horrible day for us. We got reports of multiple shootin shootings. Can you confirm that . At this point we have no evidence that theres been more than one shooter. The individual, again, we believe has been apprehended. I would leave it to the sheriff to provide you Additional Details around that. We heard that a teacher had been shot. Can you confirm that . I believe theres an administrator or teacher thats involved. There may be more. I cant confirm if thats been one of the fatalities at the moment. This is a day im sure every superintendent fears, and to happen here in broward. Its a day that you pray every day i get up that we will never have to see. It is in front of us and i ask the community for their prayers, your support for these children and their families. Were going to do whatever we can to come together as a community to pull through this, and we will. Again, were doing everything we possibly can. Students are being evacuated and released at the moment and were working through that process right now. Are you aware of any indication, any hint that this student could have been planning this . We received no warning, no indication, but again, theres going to be a thorough investigati investigation. Typically you see in these situations that there could have been signs out there. I would be speculating at this point if there were. We didnt have any warnings. There werent any phone calls o were made. Superintendent, theres so many parents that are afraid to take their kids to school. What would you tell them out there . We cannotive in a world thats built on fear. We have to dot we can to make sure that we provide the greatest Safety Measures we can for our kids. What ill is that Mental Health issues superintendent robert r right the ohachool district down in south flora, Stoneman Douglas high school, the scene of a mass casualty shooting. The shooter is in custody, we are told. Thats what you see on the right side of your screen. Im joined from washington by congressman ted deutsch, congressman from parkland. Parkland is inside your district. Weve heard a couple of things right now, a mass casualty event. First of all, our condolences to you and all the victims in your district. Weve heard the shooter is in custody. What more can you tell us . This is a really tragic day, horrible, horrioccurrence. Ive also heard that the shooter is in custody. If true, thats obviously good news. Now from the conversations ive had with the superintendent and the mayor and sheriff israel, we need to make sure that all of the kids in the school who can re tended to quickly and that the Community Come together. We dont have reports on the number of casualties here its a grim day. This is a fantastic school. The kids are great. I was there a couple weeks ago. This is the worst tragedy and we have to come together as a community which i know we will. Thats the kind of community this is but we have to make sure that that was indeed the shooter and weve got to tend to those who need care. For those whose lives were lost, we have to be there for the families who are grieving. We hear that so often from those on the scene in the hours and days after the shooting. The community has to come together. The communities come together, they grieve, and then we hear it again in another school in another city. Right. Ive got to tell you, i was in a hearing when this happened and started getting texts from a staffer of mine whose daughter was in Douglas High School on lockdo lockdown. I didnt get a chance to see footage until i was standing here waiting to come on with you. What is so terrible is the fact that when you watch the video of kids running out of school with their hands in the air and you see the interviews and you see Law Enforcement going in, whats so terrible is that its so common. Thats the truly awful part of this. Youre right, we do have to come together and the community will. My colleagues in congress have been incredible about offering their support and their encouragement and condolences but beyond that there is an obligation for everyone to do their part Going Forward to try to prevent more shootings like this. Whats so awful is how common this has become, and we cant be numb to it and it shouldnt have to wait until its in your district to respond. I couldnt say it better, congressman. I know that youre in touch with everybody there on the scene right now. Thank you for sharing a few moments of your time right now. Tom llamas here with us. Were now hearing from the broward sheriff, tom, that so far, according to the sheriff, we have at least 14 victims. Victims continue to be transferred to Broward Health center and Broward Health north hospital. Nearby hospitals there in parkland. We know that they have set up a staging area so parents can pick up their students. Now that they have the gunman, the person they believe to be the gunman, that young man wearing that maroon shirt, a Law Enforcement source tells me he was picked up in a nearby neighborhood. He had gotten out of the school . This is preliminary ar information. I was told that he was picked up near the school and theyre going to the known addresses to see what they can find and do their Due Diligence as investigators. Parents are now allowed to pick up their kids. Im joined on the phone now by lizette roseenblat. Your daughter is in the school . She called me about a halfhour or 45 minutes ago that shes out, thank god. There were 20 or 30 minutes where i didnt hear from her which was nerve racking. Our neighbor is still inside. Still inside the school . As of 4 02 p. M. She was telling me i think were being ago. Ated soon but thats what i im in room 22. We heard the fire alarm. We were evacuated at first but we saw the police running with guns and gunshots and people were screaming so we ran back inside. Thats from my neighbor who is 15. What more were you able to learn from your daughter . My daughter texted us, i dont even know the times time around 2 30. An texted my ml husband who was home thank goodness. She said there was a shooter in the school. He told her to remain calm and everything was going to be fine. He hung up with her and called the school to verify. It was confirmed and he took off in his car. Obviously he couldnt get to the school but in the area. He parked by a gas station a started walking over there. She in the meantime was texting me. She was telling me she said she was fine, that she was hiding and she kept begging me to please call the police because she was hearing somebody crying out for help. She said she was she could hear the person. When i finally spoke to her, she actually called me and said it was a Spanish Speaking student and he was just crying and she could hear that calling out. She was so worried. All i could say i texted her everythings going to be fine. I promise you ill call the police, just keep hiding. I did call 911. I gave them the details that i had. That was at 2 48 in the afternoon. I didnt hear from her again for about 20 to 30 minutes and it was absolutely horrifying because her friends got out. I kept getting calls from parents of friends of hers asking me if i had my daughter and i didnt. I hadnt even heard from her. I kept texting where are you and there was no response. That had to be the longest 30 minutes of your life. It was horrible. When she finally called me that she was okay, at that point my oldest daughter had taken off to go get my husband who was not allowed to get back to his car i think just because its total madness in parkland right now, all the s. W. A. T. And the police dything. They just couldnt get back to where they were. So i was confident that they were both going to talk with my daughter, and then i get a text from my neighbors daughter saying that my daughter was not with them and that she had walked to another friends house the completely opposite direction. So about 10, 15 minutes ago i get a phone call from my daughter saying shes at her friends house alone hiding. Im like why are you alone and hiding. At that point she didnt know that the shooter had been caught. Her friend for some reason was somewhere else and thankfully the mom gave her the gate code or the garage code to get in. My daughter is currently in someones home. I mean its a friends home but shes in there and she was petrified, still by herself. I called her and i said the shooter has been caught. She didnt believe me. Im like, i promise you. All these kids that are out, theyre still absolutely terrified. They dont have information, especially her friend thats inside the building. They dont know whats going on. So i just texted the girl thats still inside, like dont worry, the shooter has been caught. Youre going to be home safe soon. Hopefully now that the shooter has been appapprehended, the ki can start making their way home. And youll be able to hug your daughter. I cant wait. You never think Something Like this is going to happen in your neighborhood. We were voted one of the safest cities yesterday i think i read Something Like that, and then today here we are. Its a scary situation. Its all about gun control and Mental Health issues. You never know where its going to happen. One more reminder that no place is safe. Were glad your daughter is safe. Thanks for your time this afternoon. I want to bring in senator bill nelson right now. Senator bill nelson, we are sorry for what has happened in your state right now. Please tell us what you can and what you know about the shooting. George, its a bad day. A number of fatalities. I was told that by the School Superintendent about an hour ago and subsequently ive just heard him in a Live Press Conference say the same thing publicly. As to the number, i dont know. He implied that it was quite a number, but lets hope its not. If you pray, you ought to pray for these students and their school and their parents right now. Certainly our thoughts go out to them. We have heard from the Broward County sheriffs that there are at least 14 victims right now but we believe the shooter is in custody. Thats also been reported. Do you know anything more about the shooter . Have you been able to get any information . It is an active shooter situation still because they are checking to see if there was a second or third shooter. We dont have any information that that would be the case since the suspect, they think they have him. The fbi is leading the effort and then of course the investigation. The fbi will lead the investigation with all of local Law Enforcement. Senator, what are your first thoughts when it hits home like this . Its a bad day. Once we get into the investigation, how did he acquire the weapon, was it high calib caliber, was it something that he shouldnt have been able to b buy, was there a background check. All the things that when we hear about these Mass Shootings we wonder about and its hard to even get something put into law like the active terrorist watch list from being prevented to buy a gun. Again, well have another round of all of this debate that this brings to mind. Senator, the rounds have become almost ritualistic. We go through the motions, do the investigations, grieve for the victims, mourn for the faem families, and it happens again. George, youre exactly right. We keep saying enough is enough but then it happens again. Senator, thank you for your time today. You have a lot of work to do. Im here with tom llamas as well as were still seeing those scenes as they unfolded earlier this afternoon. The Broward County sheriff reports there are 14 victims. We do believe the shooter is in custody although as the senatoro say this is not an active shooter situation until they go through every room in that school. Police are telling us theyre going room by room. Its a massive school. As one of those students told you, theyre going room by room to make sure there are no other potential shooters. Police believe they have the lone gunman in custody but they are doing their due dell gentlemans diligence going through the school. Parents are now allowed to pick up their children at a staging area. There are multiple reports now from local media, different news outlets reporting that theyre interviewing students on the scene and they knew who the gunman was. Were getting new video now we want to show you. I believe this is coming from inside the school as the students tried to evacuate. Go the auditorium everybody get down do you understand me . Everybody down. Former new York City Police commissioner, ray kelly, one of the things im struck by, how calm people were able to remain as they evacuated. Exactly. How orderly it is. Again, that sort of says the mindset of students these days. This is now a relatively common experience and it has to be on the mind of the students. It says something about their discipline as well. Its a sign of the times. Senior justice correspondent pierre thomas, we have the shooter in custody according to local police. The federal investigators will now kick in as well but we should emphasize as you did earlier, the student was known to others in the school and theres been no sign at all this has any connection to terrorism of any kind. Not so far, george, and weve talked to multiple federal sources. No indication of terrorism. It looks like an isolated incident involving a disturbed young man. George, i can give some perspective to our viewers right now at home who are probably wondering how often this happens. Were averaging about 300plus Mass Shootings per year. The definition according to the gun violence archive is four or more people wounded in a single incident. 2017, 346 mass shooting incidents. 2016, 383 mass shooting incidents. So almost once a day someone in this country takes a weapon and shoots at least four people. As weve said, 18 School Shootings just this year alone. Vick oquendo has now made his way to the school. Youre about 500 feet from the school . This is as close as you can get right now to the school, george. Just about everywhere you look youve got Law Enforcement just lining every single inch of this area. Youve got students and parents very concerned. Ive already talked to a few parents on the way over here saying, look, we heard about this and couldnt get in touch with our son or daughter for about an hour. We came right over here, and this is as close as we can get right now. There is some relief knowing that there is a suspect in custody right now. Victor, if you let me interrupt you, we believe what were seeing on the scene in that ambulance, we believe the shooter is in that ambulance being taken away. The police have said the shooter is in custody. Police have said that the shooter is in custody and our affiliate was also reporting that theyve taken a Family Member, possibly a sibling, maybe a brother, for questioning as well. Those are the latest reports here. As i mentioned earlier, right now im just feet away from the school. Police everywhere. You can still hear sirens, recei helicopters in the air and students in tears out here. Victor, as far as you can tell, are all the students out of the school yet . Its tough to say. Its such a big school. I wouldnt be surprised if they were still going through it but at this point right now it does look like theyre doing their best to escort as many students away, getting them down to a nearby park so they can meet up with family. Youre watching live coverage now of a major School Shooting in south florida, parkland, florida. Thats video of the shooter believed to be in custody now, according to local Law Enforcement officials. It all began to unfold 2 20 p. M. Eastern time at the marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in parkland. Its a large high school, ten buildings, 3,000 students. According to eye witnesses on the scene, the shooting began around 2 20 with the sound of what appeared to be a garbage truck backing up and four to six minutes of shots. Thats video of students being evacuated from inside. The evacuations went on for more than an hour. According to our eye witness, there were only about four to six minutes of shooting. This is a mass casualty event, at least 14 injured, reports of at least one fatality. Weve heard that two other victims were seen dead on the ground outside the classroom. There you see pictures of some of the injured being taken away just moments ago. We saw aerial footage of the shooter being taken away in custody in an ambulance driving down the highway. Brad garrett, one of the things we just heard as well from Victor Oquendo is that a Family Member of the shooter may have also been taken into custody for questioning again. Standard practice. Its standard practice, george, but what does he know . Hes probably going to know at the very least something about the weapons. If they live together in the same house, he may have had conversations with his brother about his anger, rage, his disappointme disappointment, his feeling that he cant control his life. I guess the worst Case Scenario is if he actually talked to him about planning this. That obviously remains to be scene. Thats right. Chief david brown now joining us in dallas as well. The shooter in custody but much more police work left to be done. The most difficult part of the police work starts now with trying to find motives, trying to find cup lpability through t interrogation of the suspect. It may be a long several days of investigation before we figure out any of whats happened today. This is just the beginning, along with notifying these parents of their young people who have been lost in this tragedy, along with what ive heard earlier is that maybe a teacher or other adults may have been lost in this tragedy as well. This is just the beginning of the most difficult part of it. Chief, thanks very much. I want to bring in Matthew Walker, a 17yearold jr. At un. Matt, were glad youre okay. Tell us about your afternoon. I was in class. Its the last period of the day. I was just doing my work, kind of near the end of the bell. Out of nowhere i hear banging in the hallways. I just thought it was some kid messing around but it got louder and louder. The guy started shooting through like the little window, through the door. It was really loud. There were bullet holes everywhere. Everyone was freaking out. Can i stop you there, matt. Could you see the shooter . I did not see the shooter but i did he did shoot through my class. He shot into your classroom. Was anybody hit . Yes, there were kids injured, but he couldnt get inside because the door was locked but he was shooting through the glass. Could you tell how far away he was from the door . I cannot. I cooperauldnt see him. About how many shots did he fire into the classroom . Id probably say 10 to 12. A lot. Those 10 or 12 shots, even though im sure it happened quickly, it must have felt like forever. After that he kind of just went to other classes and did the same thing. Do you have any sense at all go ahead. He was just going class to class just shooting at random kids. When the police were escorting me out of the building, there was a dead i dont know if he was dead or not but there was a dead guy on the floor next to me. How long did you hear shooting going on . Two minutes. Two, three minutes. Then he just kept walking from classroom to classroom. Tell us about the condition of the students in the classroom with you. Mostly everyone was okay in my class but a few kids were injured. Not seriously . I think one was serious but the others, i dont know. Tell us what happened afterwards. When were you able to get out of the classroom . The cops came in like five minutes, so they were quick about it when they got here and everyone was, like, clear, they came in our class, made sure we were all okay and evacuated all of us. Since youve been out, have you heard anything more about the shooter or about your friends and classmates in the school . Well, i heard that the shooter was a former student at douglas. He has an instagram and everything he posts is about weapons. Its sick. Tell us more about that instagram from the former student. Well, i only saw a picture of it but all he does is hes just posting his weapons and stuff on his instagram, kind of like showing off his knives and guns and stuff like that. And you were able to take some video. I think were going to try to show this right now. Can you tell us what were seeing . I was on the other side of the class and he just started shooting through the door at the kids. That is a lot of shots in a short period of time, just a terrifying few moments there, matthew. It was awful. How are you doing now . Im okay, im with my mom. Were safe. Have you heard from any of your other classmates . Are your friends okay . So far all of my friends are okay. I hope i just hope everyone, you know, goes through it and just pray, you know. Im blessed to be alive. You are blessed to be alive. Matthew, thank you for sharing time b telling us giving us th ene classroom. Im here with tom llamas and ray kelly. It just shows, boy, when you get inside that classroom, put yourself in the perspective of those Young Students. As matthew said, this is the end of the day, theyre wrapping up thf your classroom. Absolutely. He seems very calm and collected. What a traumatic experience that is. Hell have it for the rest of his life. Thank god those doors withheld the shooting or his attempt to get in. Sounds like he was only able to shoot through the glass. Weve been talking about this all day. The doors locked immediately, all the students following the training theyve been given and that saves lives. Not only that but that the students realized immediately what happens. Usually when we cover these Mass Shootings, adults will tell you it sounded like fireworks, it sounded like the back of a car or something but these students have now lived through so many of these shootings. Theyve seen it on television since they were born almost. Weve had so many School Shootings. They knew exactly what happened. I want to point out something else. A pattern is starting to emerge from the students who were in that school claiming and its still early but claiming that this was possibly a student or a former student. That may explain how the shooter got into the school in the first place. We did hear from Matthew Walker that detail of the instagram of that former student showing off guns, weapons, knives. We believe this is the ambulance that was transporting the shooter, now pulling up to the hospital. We couldnt tell from the earlier video of him if he had been injured. Tom, are we learning more about that . Ive been trying to ask my sources what happened to him, if he was injured. He didnt look injured but it looked like he had trouble standing up. In florida they have the baker act where when police think somebody is mentally ill they can take him to the hospital immediately. Im not saying thats what happened here but its a state law in florida. We know he had some trouble standing up after the shooting. Whoever that was is now being wheeled into the hospital right there. Pierre thomas, of course atf is going to get involved and try to find out more about these weapons. It will be a huge priority, george, and they can typically find out within 24 hours or less where these guns came from, if they were bought locally, if they came from parents or friends. That will be a key element in helping them put together the picture of how this went down. One of the things that sources are saying already, george, is that guns are so widely available, that will be a part of the story but something that they expect that this person had easy access to the weapons, george. We have more video coming in now of one of the students at Douglas High School speaking about a teacher who was injur. What happened . He was shot. Everyone got out of the classes because we thought it was a fire drill. But then i dont know what happened. Just everyone started running back to the class and then i just ran. What is your teachers name . Mr. Beagle. How do you know he was shot . Because we saw his body for like 30 minutes. We were just like praying and crying and and then the police came and we just got out. Do you know who shot him . I have no idea. I didnt see anything. I just saw his head because he was blocking the door so the door was open all the time. I dont know how were alive. One of the students there at Douglas High School, her teacher was shot. We did get some video just moments ago from Matthew Walker, a student in the school who was in one of the classrooms where the shooter started shooting inside the classroom through a locked door. Take a look. [ gunshots ] oh, my god appears to be more than a dozen shots. I want to bring in former special agent brad garrett. The stories are lining up right now from several eye witnesses. What started as some kind of a boom or a commotionwed by shots and then the shooter going methodically from classroom to classroom for several minutes, thankfully at times finding locked doors which limited the injuries. Exactly. It reminded me immediately, george, of Virginia Tech. He chained the door shut so police couldnt get in and went methodically room to room and he was able obviously to get into the classrooms. Locked doors or reinforced doors im sure saved a number of saves today. And weve seen so Many School Districts now implement so many security measures because of the prevalence of shootings like this. They have. The challenge, george, is look at this school physically as we have aerial views of it. You literally couldnt sort of choke this into the school and effectively have the School Function day in and day out. The ability to control weapons, knives, et cetera into a school because of the fluid nature of a school is a really big challenge which really then goes to the following. The only way youre going to stop mass shooters, were not going to be able to do it with weapon restrictions because its just not going to happen realistically. Its advanced intelligence. The relationship between the faculty and the students and also as they identify troubled kids, mass shooter or not, potential down the road, you address it and deal with it. That gets to the next thing i wanted to ask you. Weve only heard this from one student, Matthew Walker talking about he had heard that the former student believed to be the shooter had an Instagram Account where he was displaying weapons, guns and knives. Hes showing off about what hes going to do and hes going to take on the power. Cho did the same thing. Remember that footage he sent to nbc back in 2007 of what he had, what he was going to use potentially. It came after the fact obviously but thats part of the power buildup for these guys. They want us to know, they want certain people to know theyre going to take care of business and those of you that i dont like have belittled me, whatever is in his head as to why he was justified in committing the shooting, im coming after you. What can we do when a student sees an Instagram Post like that, when i teacher sees an Instagram Post like that, whats next . Whats next, george, you report that to somebody in the school. Many schools today, george, particularly in virginia because of Virginia Tech actually have threat assessment teams. Theyre usually made up of the Community Police resource officer assigned to the school, a psychology, people from the school and maybe some students. As they hear about troubled kids lets face it, they have troubles, they have issues, they dont get along with people, theyre mad. Some of thats got to be addressed on the front end. Its a combination of identifying kids that need help but most important, that information gets to the staff and maybe the Police Officer at the school. You got a kid thats flashing guns on instagram, you got to address it. Steve gomez, also a former fbi special agent. One of the things thats been puzzling us is we first heard that the shooter was inside the school, perhaps in the freshman building, but we saw him being arrested looks like a couple of blocks away. Yes. And that was a big concern when you respond to this type of situation, you want to try to create a perimeter to where nobody can get out, especially the suspect, and it looks like the suspect was able to make it out into a nearby neighborhood. It was probably an essential piece of intelligence that was given to the police by one of the students or faculty that probably led them to one of those locations. Well see what the investigation bears out, but the police clearly did a great job in apprehending him outside of their perimeter from what it looks like. Its hard to imagine how he could have gotten out of the school, certainly hard to imagine he would have gotten out with any weapons. Thats where theyre going to have to piece together the timeline of the events from the first shooting all the way to the last. Did he go in there and was he targeting a certain class or Certain Group of students. We talked about how he was a former student, did he have some kind of problems to where he just went in there to target certain people and then tried to get out of there. Thats something thats going to be part of the investigation and theyre going to want to move on that quickly. As we said, a shooter is in custody right now. Tom llamas, were learning bits and pieces now about that young man. Were hearing from the one eye witness who told us he thinks it was a former student. Other students are telling other outlets that it was a former student, a student who went there. Some reports even say a troubled student. There seems to be some conflicting information from what the superintendent has said as far as were there any warning signs and other reports that are circulating around the, obviously its so hard to prepare for a situation like this or even predict anything like this happening even though we have covered so many of these but something i do want to say an update from senator marco rubio who apparently has been briefed on the situation. George, this is a very grim tweet. He writes, just spoke to broward School Superintendent. Today is that terrible day you pray never comes. It has come to Broward County, parkland, florida. Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school. I want to speak to one of the students, zachary wells, an rotc student at the school. Can you tell us what you were able to see and hear and where you are right now. Yes, i was leading some kids out from the classroom. We were heading over towards the 1300 building which is where the shots happened. I heard two or three shots, and some custody came up saying to go the other way. So we ran back into our classroom and barricaded ourselves in there. The police eventually came and got us and now im out on the street just trying to get home safe. How many shots did you hear fired or could you hear anything . I heard two or three shots and at first i thought they were fireworks. I saw the custodians and there was one kid a little further ahead of me. I just thought they were fireworks at first and then realized they were gunshots. Everyone sprinted back to the classroom and we barricaded ourselves back up in there. As far as you know was the shooting contained to that one building . I believe it stayed in that area, yes, and then from what i heard he dropped his rifle and he made his way out with the other students that were being evacuated. He walked to Wyndham Lakes which is pretty near. I live in Wyndham Lakes, and he was arrested at a common little mud hole there. Its a Florida Power and light area. We actually saw the video of him being arrested. Were not prepared to name the shooter just yet but you say you believe you know who it was, you know something about this former student . Yes, i know who it was. We got a picture of him and we were actually sending it around to the different officers to try and get the photo out to them and get him apprehended fairly quick. You have a picture of him with the gun in his hand . No. We have a picture of him, a composite photo from a Previous Year that he was in from being at the school. How do you know it was that person . One of the kids in the class, colton hatch, was on the phone with one of the Police Officers and he gave information of his name and we looked for his name and found a very similar one and found a picture of him in a school composite photo and sent it out to the officers. But you didnt know this former student personally . I did not know him personally. I had seen him before but i had not talked to him or really known him at all. So you didnt know hutmuch at him . I didnt know much about him. One of my friends said he used to follow him a social media woy post videos of him with guns and knives and things like that. Weve heard that from others as well, from Matthew Walker, another student at the school. To emphasize, as far as you know, this is a former student at the high school . Yes, he was a former student. One of my teachers said something about him either transferring or being kicked out of the school. Im not sure which it was, but yes, he did used to go to our school. Zachary wells, thanks very much for your time. Were glad youre okay. Brad garrett, i want to go back to excuse me, now were just getting video of sheriff israel on the scene there from wplg. Lets listen. I want to start out by saying this is a catastrophic, an unbelievably catastrophic day in Broward County history. Its devastating. Im sick to my stomach. We have multiple casualties. Weve had approximately 14 people transported to area hospitals with varying degrees of injuries. There are multiple casualties though. There are folks that have lost their lives. I dont know the number right now. Its a fluid scene right now. We have multiple s. W. A. T. Teams clearing all the buildings. If anybody knows anything about Stoneman Douglas high school, its o of the biggest schools its huge. Its a huge campus. We have multiple s. W. A. T. Teams clearing every building to make sure that there are no other shooters. We have a shooter in custody. He was taken into custody i believe about an hour after he left Stoneman Douglas, after he committed this horrific homicidal detestable act. The fbi and our crime scene people are on the scene of this horrific scene as far as the buildings are cleared. Right now the buildings are not safe to be cleared. Were asking that you put out on the news asap that any parent whos looking for their child to please go immediately to the marriott within the herron bay complex. Our deputies and other Police Officers are transporting these Young Students over to herron bay to be reunited with their parents. Thats where we want parents to go. I want to thank mayor dean, commissioner sharif and mr. Runsy for being here to support the Broward Sheriffs Office and to be with me at this last thing i want to say is this is a terrible day for parkland, Broward County, state of florida and the United States. My very own triplets went to that school and graduated from Stoneman Douglas. They played football and lacrosse at that school, so its just catastrophic. There really are no words, and we will keep you updated. Have spoken to governor scott. Hes out of state. Hes on his way over here. I have spoken to President Trump and hes offered the full power of the United States of america to help us get through this. Any questions . I cant hear you. E lab rolaborate on the shoo . He was found off campus. I dont know exactly where