Pilot chemical in middletown has closed several roads. We are working to find out what is happening at the chemical come any. While this is our at the elementary to assist if there are any toxic fumes. Police are telling people to shelter in place. We will keep you updated. Lisa new details on the officer involved shooting on harrison. The suspect killed was paul gaston. Mark wlwt news 5 s andrew setters is outside police headquarters. Good afternoon. Afternoon. This is a situation where police have a good understanding of what yesterday because of a citizen cell phone recording at range. Paul gaston was shot by three chief isaac speaking at district one short time ago. Police received a call about a man with a gun in westwood yesterday afternoon. Several more calls were made after that man crashed his pickup truck. One 911 call was clear that she saw a man with a weapon. He dropped it in picked it up as he stumbled away from the crashed vehicle. She called 911 to report it. Several of
We are about five minutes away going through middletown right now, we should hopefully learn more. The School District is saying confirming the lockdown. They could just post on their Facebook Page that the situation is under control. That s good news, in terms of the situation. I know a lot parents are panicking a little. According to the local school just different schools, the junior high, the high school are separated by hallways. Mark you haven t had a chance yet to check into the conditions of those individuals that were being transported. Karin that is not being released at this time. The people i ve spoken to her telling me they were shot, they did not know their conditions at this time. Lisa how did the parent say she was notified about the situation or incident . Had it she get the information from the School District . Karin through phone calls. The district did call parents. I spoke to the communications director, she said her First Priority was letting the parents know wha
The other shooting victim is 15yearold cameron smith. And investigators are trying to determine why they were targeted. We are told two other 14yearold students were hurt. Shrapnel, brant murray was injured in the chaos after the shots were fired. Today we re also getting the latest on the victim s conditions from the hospital. Good afternoon, i lisa cooney on assignment. Wlwt continues to lead the way on this shooting. Karin johnson is live in hamilton with the charges on the suspect in what happened in court. Good afternoon. Karin good afternoon. 14yearold James Austin Hancock made his first appearance here. His attorney entered a denial of the madison township junior is charged with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of full odious assault, of felonious assault. He is accused of shooting to students. Two others were injured. They all are expected to be ok. I m told hancock does not have a criminal history, at this point, investigators have not commented on motive or how he g
Did the shooting but we have to determine what is truthful, what is not. Reporter sheriff Richard Jones won t elaborate on the potenital motive. He did confirm the shooting was caught on camera, video he s not prepared to release yet. Jones explains how it all unfolded yesterday morning inside the lunchroom at Madison Local Schools. The person back here, the shooter who has other people sitting at his table, gets up from the table, runs around at a high rate of speed. At a run, i call it. Goes past the table, points his weapon and shoots at the table. Shooting two 8h graders who were sitting at the table next to his. Reporter both, cooper smith and cameron caffrey, are expected to be ok. It appears he had extra ammunition. He s had this weapon since, it appears, since saturday. Reporter jones says more than 3 shots were fired. The sheriff believes hancock would ve used more ammo had the School Resource officer not been on scene so quickly. Without the officer being there within 9 secon
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