of where you see a lot of people. it s just a huge presence of law enforcement right now in this area. let me ask you something. how far is where you are, the annapolis mall and the capital gazette from what most of us would know, the historic center of annapolis? it is a five or ten minute drive of it s two or three miles. if you were going to drive on the other side the main road to get into the historic part of annapolis is west street. if you were to take that, it s about five minutes away from the state capital and the historic parts of the city. the police tweeted to say that the gathering spot is at the lord and taylor. is that an obvious place in the mall? how far is that from the building? i m not sure because i mean it is an obvious spot, but lord and taylor is actually closed. i m on the other side. i m standing near where the nordstrom is located. got it. there is basically a bank of trees that you can see.
we see that on the screen now. yeah. that prevents me from seeing exactly what s going on as far as the staging area is concerned. you are on the side of the tree where is the capital gazette building is? i m basically on the corner of where the nordstrom is located at the mall. thank you for. that stand by. more from you in a second. i want to bring you up to speed on what we know right now. there be that a shooting at the capital gazette newspaper in annapolis maryland. it is a drive. it s not in central annapolis. not in the historic center of annapolis. annapolis is the capital offe d offered of maryland. we have reports from the capital gazette and now a reporter inside the building of a shooting. we don t have all the details but we know officers are on the scene. this is a tweet we got from the
injured individuals or victims at this time. nor can i confirm the apprehension of an individual suspect in this case. officers are currently working the scene. the area is very crowded right now with all of our equipment out in the area. the area is as safe as it can be at this time. we do have a collection point for members of that building who have been evacuated to lord and taylor. if family members want to meet them there at lord and taylor inside the annapolis mall. that s all we have right now. officers are still continuing to work this scene. it is an evolving and very busy situation.
vaelkted, officers continuing to search building, relocation point is inside lord and taylor in the mall. this is annapolis mall, by the way. this is important for people to know. if you are in contact with anyone in the building or who left the building is relocation point is inside lord and taylor at the annapolis mall. this is a tweet by the an run del police. interesting, jim cavanaugh, they are not saying they are describing it as a an active shooter situation. the police are not saying that the shooter has been subdued or captured or scaled or killed. right. they may still be searching the premises for the shooter. you are seeing the outer perimeter crew there that are moving the people, evacuating the people. that s the effort by the commanders. you know, you want to locate the shooter, isolate the shooter. evacuate the people. once technical officers can move through the perimeter those behind them are safe and they can push those people back to the patrol officers and safe
he saider mo. i will tweet when i can. i will wait to be interviewed by police. joining me mike free drik who lives nearby. he is at the scene. tell me where you are in relation to the scene and what you see. i m right at the scene right now. i can tell you, this is something that this community has really never seen anything like this. i m if you know annapolis at all, i m on the back side of the mall away from the main way most folks come into town. and you just see an amazing police presence. you know, you see local, federal law enforcement all over the place here. they have a pretty good area blocked off at the moment for folks that they are not walking into the area. basically the mall basically the capital gazette is practically across the street from the annapolis mall, which is basically a majoren i center