messages, some sometime of close relative. they will be looking to identify the vehicle. see whose vehicle that might have been. theergency right now is to determine if there was a second person involved. what role did that person play, and are they another potential shooter that could endanger the community that is why law enforcement will move quickly on this tonight. clint, we know, it is dark in california at the moment. we see the scene of the active investigation of lights in the woods, there is a lot of ground to cover, 51 acres of a festival. we did hear the witness accounts of people running through tree, upon hoing over fence, trying to get out. the perimeters, they are not secure.
there were and there were active s.w.a.t and heavy vehicles traveling past this command post, searching the area. there s rumbles on social media that somebody might be running around. but officially all we know is that they re not calling it over yet as you heard. right. reporter: and the way the guy came in, even though there was security and there were police who took him out steven, are you still there? steven week, our nbc news producer on the ground there clearly is monitoring the press briefing for us right there in front of those microphones. he hopped on the phone very quickly for us to give us the details. looks like we may have lost connection with him right now. we ll get back to him. he was at the reunification point which is ten minutes from the crime scene itself. that s where they were giving the press briefing. clint van sant was with us
listening to the details coming from the chief of police. what stood out to you clint? obviously the chief was very circumspect. he wasn t going to give out more information than he could confirm which is of course his job. he does tell us that there are 15 injured, that there are four dead to include what is believed to be the shooter. it was fatherly amazing that local law enforcement, the local community, approximat community pd was able to engage the shooter right away. he said within minutes, clint. yeah, within minutes. i heard one witness earlier today describe a series of a semiautomatic rifle and a hand gun going off, two different weapons. that would account for the subject shating and the police officer shooting. i think what most people are concerned with now is the potential for a second shooter to be out there or someone who gave aide and assistance.
briefing that he may have known these very individuals. one of the things that did come out when i look at this, clint, was because you and i were talking earlier in the evening about how three sides, at least according to the map, that this park where this festival is held every year is open to rolling hills. and one of those locations earlier we were watching it on air from a chopper cam was a creek or a little river. and you heard the chief of police say that at this location they found evidence of cutting through one of the fence, right? and that this suspect entered through that and began shooting. just another element of could you prepare for that and how tough it is to create a security
clint van sant, a horoing being of this poor father losing his son. many witness accounts, about people, you know, hearing the gunshots, running off into other areas to escape this. what are police looking for? obviously, another suspect. they cut through the fence to come to this festival. over a hundred vendors, the end of three days of the festival. cut through a fence to come to this. slightly premeditated. they are trying to figure out y what the random shooting would have been. what are you putting together from all the accounts you heard tonight? as you suggested, as the police chief told us in the