Spur lock who just spoke a few moments ago, saying the detective is detective dan bright. He has been with the department for more than two years, his wife is also a deputy with the Douglas County Sheriffs Office. We know she is at the hospital now with their children. He is undergoing surgery and has asked for prayers. They to know wait f more cooperates. We were told by sheriff spurlock that this detective was in plain clothes at the time of this incident. An exchange of gunfire with the suspect. That explains why some witnesses thought civilians might have been the ones who fired. The suspect was killed. He was known to detectives. Theyre not giving anymore information on why or how. Finally he added that parker lot of gridlock between the crime scene here and school letting out today. He is asking that in addition to prayers, people avoid this area as they continue to investigate what happened. Were live in Douglas County, lauren dispirito, cbs4 news. Thank you. To Tropical Storm h
Investigation. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us. What can you tell us . We are in the preliminary stage of our investigation where were trying to identify the victim, look for witnesses. We are looking at the houses to see if anybody has private cctv to determine what happened here. We are really not rushing. We are moving quickly to try to clear the crime scene before school gets out. This middle school has hundreds of students that live on the south side, will be coming over the foot bridge in the early afternoon. So were really trying to make sure we can have the coroner come, get the body and wrap up the investigation in the next two hours. Reporter do you know any motive for a suspect information that we can get out there . No. A few witnesses have given us descriptions of people running. If anybody knows why this happen, we offer a 10,000 reward for any information in a homicide. And based on the victims young age, we are going to ask to expand that reward to encourage mo
Called secure and safe by Law Enforcement authorities right now, they are they still have a lot of investigating to do. They have not officially released the name of the shooter or the other person being questioned or the names of any of the victims at this time. Its just an awful scene, and parents found out about this, wolf, when they received a lot of them text messages, alerts from the school that had them rushing over to the school as a 911 call came in. Police arrived on the scene, they tried to secure the scene and make sure that it was safe so that all the children were immediately evacuated from the school and brought to a safe location nearby where they could be reunited with their parents. We know this one thing from the shooter. We understand that at least three weapons were found at the scene. One of them a glock, one of them a sig sauer and one of them a 223 bushmaster. We dont know exactly what kind of models but we have that as well. And heres more about how it all came
Hook Elementary School in connecticut. Investigators are trying to piece together information about the shooter. Including what could have motivated him to kill more than 20 people. Many of them innocent children. The nation as mourning the victims of Fridays School massacre in new town, connecticut. The shooter is dead and now authorities have the daunting task of identifying the victims. Renee marsh joins us now with the latest. The most common question is why. As residents came together at this visual friday night. Law enforcement continue to piece together what happens. We know that this will be mass of and it is a big puzzle that we have to put together. At the center of the puzzle we have the 20 yearold who has been identified as the shooter. He had no known criminal record. He was dressed in black fatigue. He was always settle different. He kept hisself. I do not think you could say you could predict this. Nowhere is this sadness more powerful than the small community. The press
The small connecticut town of new town where a 20 year old boy went into the school that you see there and kill 20 little children. Six employees and before that he killed his mother and then killed himself. The questions continue this morning about why he did it. It will be a week of funerals here in new town conn. Charlotte bacon as well as just a cut rate goes both 6 years old will be that the next laid to rest. The morning continues in new town conn. Today to more little victims will be laid to rest. On monday but mourners said a final goodbye to six yearold jack pinto. It is sad, very sad. It is hard to take this, losing a sixth gradin a gardener. It is so close to home students had back to school on tuesday expect for sandy hook elementary students. The equipment was taken from the Sandy Hook School to another town where the sandy hook students will return to class. We are putting our arms around people. It is still hard to know why the 20 roll open fire at the Elementary School.