there is no longer a threat on campus. we are sad to report that there have been three confirmed fatalities. this is in addition to the five victims who were injured and transported to the hospital. some of those five victims still have life-threatening injuries. out of respect for the families, and while we continue our act of investigation, we cannot confirm any personal information about any of the victims at this time. again, we want to reiterate to everybody that we know there is a lot of information that is being shared on social media and being said on this banner. please, continue to get your
far we know that there s a range of injuries, so my life threatening, give us a sense of the campus and itself. understand the campus is 60,000 people large, when it comes to, faculty staff, administrators, employees there on campus. give us a sense, also, as far as the vicinity and the other facilities there. for those who are not familiar. yeah, so it s a really large campus, like you mentioned, it s over 60,000 students, so everybody is walking around. if you can think to maybe the size, of penn state, there is a downtown area, you have a lot of traffic outside of just students on campus. it s really just an entire community the lives around this university. so it s, families it s students, it s older adults, you name it.
i think i could hear the law enforcement activity. you know, bleeding through the audio here, again, aerial activity, helicopters there, you hear the police cars on the street. and as you say, a terrifying situation for the people, the students, still on campus, still hiding in certain cases. and juliette kayyem, i just wanna bring up this point with you very quickly. again, we are waiting for this news conference, which hopefully will take place in a few minutes. but then when i get the information right at this point. i know there is an imperative, if this is the suspect, and if this is over, they want people to know that. on the other hand, they need to be sure. yeah. absolutely. they have time on their side. the suspect is either dead or getting cpr. they have the campus under control. they ve gotta get this right for a variety of reasons. of course, there are three dead, members of the university community.
fatality and five injuries, some of them severe, or in critical condition. and in that our, they found two more people. so, just to be clear, it s a large campus. of the two different buildings are far apart. these are not like you walked across the street. these large campuses are great distances apart. and so, they are looking everywhere to make sure that there weren t third, fourth, or you don t, fifth areas where there might have been shootings that they will then find others. because i think this gap in this hour where they now say there s two additional fatalities means that they are searching and they may be finding things that are horrifying, in the sense that it s increasing the fatality rate. and that was not in the first numbers. the second is of course, the response at the college, at the university.
there was some presence on campus within seconds. i know some police and fbi agents were there. and they give me help they. so that is the most so you can have right now. especially after being so shaken about the events taken tonight. the processing this in the time will take to grasp what happened, and what it means, and the aftermath. and knowing that they re going to be community from the shock and sadness that you all will be feeling once you know more about the circumstances. under the reluctant to share about the identity of the shooter, others that he was found outside campus, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. we do not know the connection to msu.