this tax and accounting office. there are quite a few people that are at the scene. that is our local fox news crew there you see abc new york several people who have gathered around the witnesses, reacting to all of this. quan, you re still with us. you re safe inside. this is a lot to talk. what was that? this is a lot to take. yes. kind of unreal. how many people are with you? there s about 12 of us and an officer came in earlier and said we need write down everyone s name some number. how many people are in there. they wrote everybody else everybody s names down. did they ask you questions. no just make sure we re safe. right before we went to that man who obviously is emotional, and understandable, understandably, you were telling about how long you have been sheltered in place, and it s been several hours now. yes. it s been two and a half two
these things, rots wheeler, former d.c. homicide investigator joining us by phone. roger, are you with us? yes, i. a. as we look at the scene i m not sure how much you can see. you see one, two, three, four ambulances right here. i just want to get your thoughts on what you know about what happened. i can tell you i have been following this situation for an hour and just so that the viewers know this is a very fluid situation. what does that sunshine it sounds leak the police, as you indicate earlier, have this person or persons contained. that does not mean, though, they have absolutely eradicated the threat. the threat is still there but they have the threat contained within an area, within a perimeter. so that s why, harris what you see on the screen, with the kinds of like the dragnet that the officers have create there, they know that person is within that perimeter. what they don t know is exactly where. i ll tell you another of what they don t know. what they don t know
colorado fraternal order of police. he is saying the gunman has shot an unknown number of people and that may be why we re seeing all the ambulances. i see from your tweets that you are thankfully in the zone that police are saying is most dangerous. please take care and bring us up to speed. thank you. i will stay safe. centennial and fill moremore is where i m at. there s a japanese restaurant, wild wings, a spines and vines, a gas station, normal shopping center, subway, a grocery store. and just the last few minutes, police have come over to us and told us that three officers are injured two of them are safe, one of them is still they re still trying to get to him and get him away from the scene but that has been told to news the last couple of moments. i want to ask you a little
shopping. reporter: absolutely. it s black friday. it s your typical black friday type of shopping center, but there s stale people out, especially on a holiday. you re right, kid aren t in school and people are most like live out with families. all right. i m sorry. didn t mean the to cut you off. the last little while you heard an uptick in the number of police officer weather have been injured. has that been since the whole thing began or was this a rolling situation. reporter: from my knowledge it s a rolling situation. i m not sure. when i arrived on scene i knew initially of one officer who had been injured. we saw someone being put into an ambulance, whether that was aen officer, die not know, but we saw the person being put into the ambulance, and then we got word of a second officer and then the third. that is how we have been informed of the situation.
bit also just about the whole area there, because a lot of times we ll get word. we re fortunate that most schools are not in session today but what is in that immediate location, that mile and a half or so along centennial boulevard where they re watching? houses. apartment buildings. it s a very residential area. i live myself not that far from here. so, it is a very residential area. this is one of the only shopping centers in probably a couple square miles. so people come here to shop. and as far as you know, when this first started, the early reports were that someone was shooting at passing cars. is that what you heard? that would be a very different scene than what we have playing out now. reporter: i cannot confirm or deny that report. when i came on scene, centennial boulevard was closed from the garden of the gods site.