Status is of the suspect. Weve heard multiple things from hes wounded to hes talking to lapd officials. Just this harrowing scene of people escaping from the front and back of the building. We saw from the knbcs chopper, you could look down there, see children being carried away. What appeared to be carried away by Tactical Teams on the ground. Of course half surrounding the store with guns drawn. But also you can see people escaping from that secondstory window, almost a folding ladder kind of coming out of that window and then again, police appearing to guide people to safety out of that store. This is a situation thats been unfolding probably for the better part now of about an hour and a half to two hours with this sort of tense scene as you see police, guns drawn at the store. One witness, at least we know one witness who says that shots were fired outside of the store. That suspect crashing the car steve, im going to interrupt you here for a second. Knbc has a witness theyre talk
confirmation on that. dan, we appreciate you talking with us. thank you. we re glad you re safe. as we were talking about we were going to air an interview with him but we have him fortunately here live with us. a lot of other witnesses telling me that they saw similar things, they were very close to that, very close to a lot of what was happening, which of course terrifying. i was talking to another witness who says he also talked with a man who was here. this witness tried to tell him, you know, you should get out of here, you re in the line of fire, it s dangerous, and that man told him no, my kids rinse my two boys are there. and like we mentioned, we saw some video from news chopper 4 bravo of children being brought out, other people being brought out. we re not too far from the scene. we can see a lot of police out here right now but we re very careful of what we re showing here on the ground because we don t want to give away their tact sxikz their efforts by chance people in th
montanez on the ground in. rick, last time we talked to you you had heard from a witness. what have you learned in the last few minutes? not jonathan, we ve been talking with a lot of people of course who were very close to this scene, were very close to what was happening. dan, would you mind coming to talk with us real quick? we are live on channel 4. this is dan zito. we do have a recorded interview with him but we want to talk with him live because dan you were very close to this. you were about to walk into trader joe s when this had happened. actually i had bought some groceries and i was just walking out when i seen that the car coming down and the police chasing him. and he looked like he was trying to make it into the driveway but missing one right front tire he couldn t make the turn and he hit the telephone pole. i guess i was eight or ten feet away. after that you said you heard the gunshots? he jumped oust his car and he looked like he was shooting when