that is not an ied. it was actually canisters of smoke grenades that he used inside of the building when he entered the establishment. so this person was prepared today to come in, this person was prepared to shoot people. his intent was to cause harm. and as i stated before, the investigative part of this is going to be thorough and it s going to take some time. as you can see behind us, we opened up bestgate road. we thought we may need to secure that roadway for a long period of time. and as we get further into the investigation, we realized that we don t need that roadway. but the building 888 bestgate will be secured for some time.
the governor. are they expecting to brief reporters? are they just gathering information? they are. yeah. they re going to be briefing reporters soon. they ll be together and having a media briefing i think shortly. is there anything you can tell us about the number of casualties in this event? we have heard that from law enforcement sources that there were fatalities. is there anything that you can tell us? i can t confirm any numbers. i can confirm that i have heard from several reporters that i deal with that they are okay. there were a few on vacation. so that s good news. but i can t confirm any numbers for you. all right. thank you so much, susan o brien and our thoughts are with the people of annapolis city and county today, especially those in the office building 888 bestgate. i want to bring back josh
we mentioned before about the improvised explosive device. that is not an ied. it was actually canisters of smoke grenades that he used inside of the building when he entered the establishment. so this person was prepared today to come in, this person was prepared to shoot people. his intent was to cause harm. and as i stated before, the investigative part of this is going to be thorough and it s going to take some time. as you can see behind us, we opened up bestgate road. we thought we may need to secure that roadway for a long period of time. and as we get further into the investigation, we realized that we don t need that roadway. but the building 888 bestgate