as far as sightings of the suspect, who is still on the run, they re getting multiple reports of sightings of this individual but different locations that they haven t been able to confirm. they re saying basically anyone who is a black male on the street right now with a hoodie, someone is calling about them. they are trying to follow up these credible leads. no status on those victims that were shot and, again, a hard perimeter of about a mile has been put up around this area where the incident initially happened during the lunchtime hour in midtown. this is still very much an active situation and a very fluid situation. no update on the conditions of those victims but the mother is cooperating with police and he was there for a medical appointment for himself. they declined to give further details because of hipa. they want people to pay attention that about a mile around that area is locked down currently. your understanding is that the suspect is on the run, that the s
inside the room. what was it like when you walked in and saw those people in that office so upset? i mean, it was pretty sad. i mean, i couldn t imagine what they were going through. they actually saw the guy, you know, might have even seen the victims that were shot. i mean, i feel for them and my heart goes out to them. reporter: i really appreciate you for stopping, my brother. thank you so much. thank you for talking to us. that was eddie who was obviously talking who was inside after having that situation happen. he s wearing that gray, he has that hoodie, so you can understand why that may have been stopped by officers. again, to go along with some of the information that we re also learning is now there s that scare that there may have been a carjacking nearby. i was talking to a source that this person may have left this entire area. so that s something they re also working with at this point. so, again, this all comes down to all those phone calls, all those 911 calls in t
but this was an area that was shelter in place and certainly some parts of it may continue to be so. i do want to bring in our cnn law enforcement analyst to talk with us. something that we just learned here, jonathan, and we were wondering because there had been no additional shots fired since the initial shots were fired some time ago. but now we have just found out, according to police, that they don t know where he is, they haven t located him. there is not some scenario that they re discussing with him. they don t know where he is at this point and that raises a lot of questions about where this goes from here. yeah, no, absolutely. listen, i think while it has appeared that the active shooting has abated, this is still a very, very tense situation for, you know, for the citizens, for the police that are trying to find this suspect. because the shooter is at large, right? we have an unmitigated threat
have set up their system there so they can bring in all the information from the area and put that out. we ve seen that communications department, which is planning for this stuff all the time, pump out that information. that s why somebody was smart enough to go in there and get that picture and bring it in. that s the information they re working with. this still remains a very active scene. they have told people to shelter in place. so all of the people who live in the buildings here, most of them have not been able to come out since this happened. they re not even letting cars leave some of these parking garages. but the one thing we haven t seen is no one s looking in the back of cars to see if anybody s hiding in that situation. whul this is going onwhile thiss going on and i m sure people are calling 911 with descriptions, that hoodie, that canvas bag.
i mean, clearly he has ready access to a weapon, if he was storing it in that bag, which he very possibly was, to ammunition. certainly that could provide, you know, if he has more ammunition, there could be plenty of it if he is carrying a bag of that size, and it is just it stands out in that it is on his front. right? right. you know, bringing that satchel, having it available in the front, almost the way you would in a military gear-type situation really indicates that when he left with his mom today, he did have some kind of plan. he was equipped for that plan. he was literally armed for that plan and we don t know what else is in there, although what we ve seen in past active shooters is they bring a weapon, sometimes a secondary weapons, sometimes